 Kisenosato Yutaka

After being a runner-up in a tournament on twelve occasions, he broke through at the January 2017 tournament, winning his first top division championship or "yūshō" with a record and subsequently was promoted to "yokozuna", the first Japanese born wrestler to reach sumo's highest rank since Wakanohana in 1998.He had been a candidate four times previously (July 2013, January 2014, July 2016 and September 2016), but in each case he failed to achieve the necessary number of wins.