Sumo at the 2022 World Games

Sumo at the 2022 World Games
Venue	Boutwell Auditorium Birmingham, United States
Dates	9–10 July
No. of events	8

The sumo competition at the 2022 World Games took place in July 2022,[1] in Birmingham in United States, at the Boutwell Auditorium; the lightweight, middleweight, and heavyweight events were held on July 9 and the openweight events were held on July 10.

Originally scheduled to take place in July 2021, the Games were rescheduled for July 2022 as a result of the 2020 Summer Olympics postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]

The Egyptian sumo team was banned from competing in the remaining sumo events after "poor sportsmanship".[3] The poor organization and sportsmanship displayed during this year's competition led to sumo being dropped from the program ahead of the 2025 World Games.[4][5][6]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	4	4	1	9
2	Ukraine	3	3	3	9
3	Egypt	1	0	0	1
4	Mongolia	0	1	0	1
5	Poland	0	0	3	3
6	Brazil	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		8	8	8	24

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Lightweight details	Abdelrahman El-Sefy  Egypt	Demid Karachenko  Ukraine	Sviatoslav Semykras  Ukraine
Middleweight details	Vazha Daiauri  Ukraine	Shion Fujisawa  Japan	Aron Rozum  Poland
Heavyweight details	Hidetora Hanada  Japan	Daiki Nakamura  Japan	Rui Júnior  Brazil
Openweight details	Daiki Nakamura  Japan	Baasandorjiin Badral  Mongolia	Oleksandr Veresiuk  Ukraine

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Lightweight details	Yuka Okutomi  Japan	Miku Yamanaka  Japan	Magdalena Macios  Poland
Middleweight details	Sakura Ishii  Japan	Karyna Kolesnik  Ukraine	Monika Skibra  Poland
Heavyweight details	Svitlana Yaromka  Ukraine	Ivanna Berezovska  Ukraine	Airi Hisano  Japan
Openweight details	Ivanna Berezovska  Ukraine	Hiyori Kon  Japan	Svitlana Yaromka  Ukraine

See also

• Sumo at the World Games

References

1. "The World Games 2022 Sports programme". Retrieved 2020-08-27.
2. "2021 WORLD GAMES POSTPONED TO 2022 TO AVOID TOKYO OLYMPIC CLASH". reuters.com. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
3. Berkeley, Geoff (10 July 2022). "Egyptian sumo team banned from World Games over "poor sportsmanship"". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
4. "Hanamichi: Sumo Dropped from World Games". tachiai.org. July 16, 2023.
5. Gunning, John (Oct 18, 2023). "Sumo's Olympic dream requires fresh approach". The Japan Times.
6. Gunning, John (Jul 13, 2022). "World Games chaos highlights amateur sumo's structural flaws". The Japan Times.

External links

• The World Games 2022
• International Sumo Federation
• Results book