Kaio Hiroyuki (魁皇博之, born July 24, 1972 as Hiroyuki Koga) is a professional sumo wrestler from Fukuoka, Japan. July 24 is the 205th day (206th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 160 days remaining. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Sumo (相撲 Sumō, alternatively 大相撲 ÅŒzumō), or Sumo wrestling, is a competition contact sport wherein two wrestlers or rikishi face off in a circular area. ... Fukuoka can refer to several locations in Japan: Fukuoka Prefecture (福岡県) Fukuoka City (福岡市) in Fukuoka Prefecture Two towns in Japan are named Fukuoka (福岡町): Fukuoka in Toyama Prefecture and Fukuoka in Gifu Prefecture. ...

He currently holds the second highest Ozeki, or champion, rank. In his career to date he has won five top division tournament championships. This is the modern record for the most top division victories for a someone who has not ultimately made the top rank of Yokozuna. Yokozuna Asashoryu (center) performing the ring-entering ceremony while flanked by a sword bearer on the left and dew sweeper on the right. ...

Kaio is now one of the oldest active wrestlers in the top division. He joined sumo at the same time as former yokozuna Akebono, Takanohana and Wakanohana, who have all retired a number of years ago. Kaio's sumo has often struggled to be of a consistently sufficiently high level to allow him the major promotions that his ability merits. Akebono Taro (曙太郎, born May 8, 1969 as Chad Haaheo Rowan) is a former Sumo wrestler. ... Takanohana III Koji (貴乃花 光司, born August 12, 1972 as Hanada Koji) is the younger son of Futagoyama oyakata, formerly Ozeki Takanohana II. He entered sumo in March 1988, at the same time as his elder brother Wakanohana Masaru, and also Akebono Taro. ... Wakanohana III Masaru (若乃花 勝) (born January 20, 1971 as Hanada Masaru (花田 勝)) is the elder son of Futagoyama oyakata, formerly Ozeki Takanohana II. He is also the nephew of Wakanohana I Kanji, who was a famous Yokozuna of the 1950s. ...

Kaio reached the top division in 1993 and was promoted to a sanyaku rank exactly one year later. In the earlier part of his top, makuuchi, division career he set records for both the number of tournaments spent in the junior sanyaku ranks of komusubi and sekiwake and for the longest run being consecutively ranked in sanyaku without making ozeki. He eventually achieved ozeki promotion after the Nagoya (July) tournament in 2000 and has maintained the rank since. Cite error 4; Invalid call; no input specified 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Sanyaku (三役) literally means the three ranks and represents the titleholder, or champion, ranks at the top of the sumo ranking system. ... The Makuuchi, or Makunouchi, is the top division in professional Sumo wrestling in Japan. ... Komusubi (小結) literally means the little knot, the knot referring to the match up between two wrestlers. ... Sekiwake (関脇) is the third highest rank in professional sumo wrestling, and is one of the so-called sanyaku ranks. ... Sanyaku (三役) literally means the three ranks and represents the titleholder, or champion, ranks at the top of the sumo ranking system. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

He is currently one of the top ten longest serving ozeki, However, given that he is both aging and the current strength of the sole yokozuna Asashoryu it is likely he will be unable to achieve yokozuna and hence will be remembered as one of the greatest Ozeki of modern times. Asashōryū Akinori (朝青龍 明徳), born as Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj (Долгорсүрэн Дагвадорж) on September 27, 1980 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, is the first Mongolian sumo wrestler to reach the rank of yokozuna. ...