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Sumo is a form of competitive wrestling where two opponents try to force each other out of a circular ring or knock each other to the ground using techniques like throwing, shoving, and pushing. It is a traditional sport that remains culturally significant and widely practiced as a professional competition.
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Key facts
- Martial art.image
- Asashoryu fight Jan08.JPG
- Martial art.imagecaption
- A sumo match () between Asashōryū (left) and Kotoshōgiku in January 2008
- Martial art.name
- Sumo
- Martial art.focus
- Clinch fighting
- Martial art.hardness
- Full contact
- Martial art.country
- Japan
- Martial art.ancestor_arts
- Tegoi
- Martial art.olympic
- No, but IOC recognized
- Sport.name
- Sumo
- Sport.imagesize
- 220px
- Sport.union
- International Sumo Federation (Amateur)Japan Sumo Association (Professional)
- Sport.first
- Japan, 7th century (antiquity)Japan, mid-17th century (Edo period, modern)
- Sport.country/region
- Worldwide (Amateur)Japan (Professional)
- Sport.contact
- Yes
- Sport.team
- No
- Sport.mgender
- Yes (Amateur, separate divisions)No (Professional, men only)
- Sport.category
- Grappling sport
- Sport.equipment
- Mawashi
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- national sport
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Image
- Asashoryu fight Jan08.JPG
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- OpenStreetMap tag
- sport=sumo
- Commons category
- Sumo
- regulated by
- International Sumo Federation
- topic's main category
- Category:Sumo
- inception
- 0642-00-00
- uses
- mawashi
- native label
- 角力
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- practiced by
- rikishi
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