# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ikioi-shota
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:54:22.169Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ikioi-shota"
name: "Ikioi Shōta"
slug: "ikioi-shota"
description: "Ikioi Shōta  is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler from Katano, Osaka. He began his career in March 2005. He won the jūryō championship in November 2011 in his very first tournament in the division and just two tournaments later made his makuuchi division debut. He was runner up to Jōkōryū in the jūryō division in September 2012. His highest rank was sekiwake. He won four special prizes for Fighting Spirit and five gold stars for defeating yokozuna. He did not miss a single bout from his professional debut until the last day of the January 2021 tournament. He retired in June 2021 to become a coach and elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the name Kasugayama."
tagline: "Japanese sumo wrestler"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ikioi_in_Harubasho_2013_IMG_1879-2_20130324.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1986-10-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50
  momentum:             10
  historical:           5.145044
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikioi_Sh%C5%8Dta"
    title: "Ikioi Shōta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikioi_Sh%C5%8Dta"
    title: "Ikioi Shōta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8B%A2%E7%BF%94%E5%A4%AA"
    title: "勢翔太"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%B8_%D0%A1%D1%91%D1%82%D0%B0"
    title: "Икиои Сёта"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8B%A2%E7%BF%94%E5%A4%AA"
    title: "勢翔太"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5995995"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump