Today the Commission on drawing up bandzuke made the decision to transfer the 30-year-old Russian athlete Amur from the third league makusita to the second division dzyure and to award to it the elite status sekitori.

The native of the seaside city of Lesozavodsk Nikolay Ivanov who has arrived on powerful service twelve years ago, returned to elite of professional sumo thanks to improbable strength of mind.

In the 2010th year Amur tore a forward crucial ligament of the left knee and was compelled to pass because of a trauma three tournaments. After an intensive rehabilitation course Nikolay began to fight better, than before – and in January of the 2012th year it debuted in dzyure.

The Amur won ten victories in eleven fights and began to apply already for increase in the highest division of professional sumo – makuuti. However in the twelfth day of Hatsu basyo the Russian athlete broke off a forward crucial ligament of the right knee.

Having undergone two operations, Nikolay returned to a system rikisi only in a year. As Amur passed five basyo, it was lowered in the fifth league (dzyonidan).

Again to break through in dzyure, Nikolay needed fourteen months. During this time, on seven tournaments, he won thirty nine victories, having suffered only ten defeats.

Together with Amur Sagatsukasa and 27-year-old Kitakharima come back to the second elite division 32-year-old.

The status sekitori is lost by the 93-kilogram Czech Takanoyama and the Mongolian athlete Sakigake.

Denis Isayev

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