Sumo at the World Games

Sumo was introduced as an official World Games sport at the 2005 World Games in Duisburg. It had previously appeared as an invitational sport at the 2001 World Games in Akita.

Sumo was removed from the World Games program for 2025 due to issues during competition at the 2022 World Games.[1][2][3][4]

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Russia (RUS)1310831
2  Japan (JPN)11111032
3  Ukraine (UKR)99624
4  Mongolia (MGL)33410
5  Egypt (EGY)1203
6  Germany (GER)1012
7  Estonia (EST)1001
  Hungary (HUN)1001
9  Brazil (BRA)0314
10  Poland (POL)0189
11  United States (USA)0101
12  Thailand (THA)0011
  Venezuela (VEN)0011
Totals (13 entries)404040120

Medalists

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-85 kg (lightweight)

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
2001 Akita (Demonstration)   Chohei Kimura (JPN)   Peer Schmidt-Düwiger (GER)   Lodoijamtsyn Bat-Erdene (MGL)
2005 Duisburg   Vitaliy Tikhenko (UKR)   Igor Kurinnoy (RUS)   Yuya Hanada (JPN)
2009 Kaohsiung   Sandor Bardosi (HUN)   Nachyn Mongush (RUS)   Gantugs Rentsendorj (MGL)
2013 Cali   Tatsuma Kawaguchi (JPN)   Batyr Altyev (RUS)   Gantugs Rentsendorj (MGL)
2017 Wrocław   Batyr Altyev (RUS)   Trent Sabo (USA)   Pawel Wojda (POL)
2022 Birmingham   Abdelrahman Elsefy (EGY)   Demid Karachenko (UKR)   Sviatoslav Semykras (UKR)

-115 kg (middleweight)

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
2001 Akita (Demonstration)   Seietsu Hikage (JPN)   Altangadasyn Khüchitbaatar (MGL)   David Tsallagov (RUS)
2005 Duisburg   Katsuo Yoshida (JPN)   Seietsu Hikage (JPN)   David Tsallagov (RUS)
2009 Kaohsiung   Ryo Ito (JPN)   Katsuo Yoshida (JPN)   Kostiantyn Iermakov (UKR)
2013 Cali   Oleksandr Gordienko (UKR)   Atsamaz Kaziev (RUS)   Usukhbayar Ochirkhuu (MGL)
2017 Wrocław   Atsamaz Kaziev (RUS)   Misbah Hossam (EGY)   Usukhbayar Ochirkhuu (MGL)
2022 Birmingham   Vazha Daiauri (UKR)   Shion Fujisawa (JPN)   Aron Rozum (POL)

+115 kg (heavyweight)

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
2001 Akita (Demonstration)   Jörg Brümmer (GER)   Jüri Uustalu (EST)   Takahisa Osanai (JPN)
2005 Duisburg   Keisho Shimoda (JPN)   Takayuki Ichihara (JPN)   Robert Paczków (POL)
2009 Kaohsiung   Takashi Himeno (JPN)   Naranbat Gankhuyag (MGL)   Alan Karaev (RUS)
2013 Cali   Alan Karaev (RUS)   Vasiliy Margiev (RUS)   Mutoshi Matsunaga (JPN)
2017 Wrocław   Vasiliy Margiev (RUS)   Ramy Belai (EGY)   Soichiro Kurokawa (JPN)
2022 Birmingham   Hidetora Hanada (JPN)   Daiki Nakamura (JPN)   Rui Junior (BRA)

Open

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
2001 Akita (Demonstration)   Kenichi Yajima (JPN)   Torsten Scheibler (GER)   Jaroslav Poříz (CZE)
2005 Duisburg   Takayuki Ichihara (JPN)   Keisho Shimoda (JPN)   Seietsu Hikage (JPN)
2009 Kaohsiung   Byambajav Ulambayaryn (MGL)   Mutoshi Matsunaga (JPN)   Takashi Himeno (JPN)
2013 Cali   Naranbat Gankhuyag (MGL)   Yevhen Kozliatin (UKR)   Vasiliy Margiev (RUS)
2017 Wrocław   Vasiliy Margiev (RUS)   Batyr Altyev (RUS)   Hayato Miwa (JPN)
2022 Birmingham   Daiki Nakamura (JPN)   Badral Baasandorj (MGL)   Oleksandr Veresiuk (UKR)

Women

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-65 kg (lightweight)

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
2001 Akita (Demonstration)   Astrid Lixenfeld (GER)   Satomi Ishigaya (JPN)   Natalia Bobkina (RUS)
2005 Duisburg   Alina Boykova (UKR)   Yekaterina Salakhova (RUS)   Tamami Iwai (JPN)
2009 Kaohsiung   Alina Boykova (UKR)   Selenge Enkhzaya (MGL)   Nelli Vorobyeva (RUS)
2013 Cali   Yukina Iwamoto (JPN)   Luciana Montgomery Watanabe (BRA)   Vera Koval (RUS)
2017 Wrocław   Svitlana Trosiuk (UKR)   Luciana Montgomery Higuchi (BRA)   Magdalena Macios (POL)
2022 Birmingham   Yuka Okutomi (JPN)   Miku Yamanaka (JPN)   Magdalena Macios (POL)

-80 kg (middleweight)

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
2001 Akita (Demonstration)   Olesya Kovalenko (RUS)   Rie Tsuihiji (JPN)   Sandra Köppen (GER)
2005 Duisburg   Svetlana Panteleyeva (RUS)   Satomi Ishigaya (JPN)   Nicole Hehemann (GER)
2009 Kaohsiung   Epp Mäe (EST)   Maryna Pryshchepa (UKR)   Asano Matsuura (JPN)
2013 Cali   Maryna Pryshchepa (UKR)   Maryna Maksymenko (UKR)   Asano Matsuura (JPN)
2017 Wrocław   Munkhtsetseg Otgon (MGL)   Asano Ota (JPN)   Maryna Maksymenko (UKR)
2022 Birmingham   Sakura Ishii (JPN)   Karyna Kolesnik (UKR)   Monika Skiba (POL)

+80 kg (heavyweight)

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
2001 Akita (Demonstration)
None (Middleweight competed as +65 kg)
2005 Duisburg   Sandra Köppen (GER)   Olesya Kovalenko (RUS)   Edyta Witkowska (POL)
2009 Kaohsiung   Anna Zhigalova (RUS)   Olga Davydko (UKR)   Yekaterina Keyb (RUS)
2013 Cali   Anna Zhigalova (RUS)   Olesya Kovalenko (RUS)   Maria Alejandra Cedeno Henriquez (VEN)
2017 Wrocław   Anna Poliakova (RUS)   Olga Davydko (RUS)   Viparat Vituteerasan (THA)
2022 Birmingham   Svitlana Yaromka (UKR)   Ivanna Berezovska (UKR)   Airi Hisano (JPN)

Open

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
2001 Akita (Demonstration)
None
2005 Duisburg   Olesya Kovalenko (RUS)   Edyta Witkowska (POL)   Yekaterina Keyb (RUS)
2009 Kaohsiung   Anna Zhigalova (RUS)   Olga Davydko (UKR)   Edyta Witkowska-Popecka (POL)
2013 Cali   Anna Zhigalova (RUS)   Janaina Fernanda Silva (BRA)   Svitlana Yaromka (UKR)
2017 Wrocław   Anna Poliakova (RUS)   Ivanna Berezovska (UKR)   Olga Davydko (RUS)
2022 Birmingham   Ivanna Berezovska (UKR)   Hiyori Kon (JPN)   Svitlana Yaromka (UKR)

References

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  1. ^ Berkeley, Geoff (10 July 2022). "Egyptian sumo team banned from World Games over "poor sportsmanship"". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Hanamichi: Sumo Dropped from World Games". tachiai.org. July 16, 2023.
  3. ^ Gunning, John (Oct 18, 2023). "Sumo's Olympic dream requires fresh approach". The Japan Times.
  4. ^ Gunning, John (Jul 13, 2022). "World Games chaos highlights amateur sumo's structural flaws". The Japan Times.
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