In which sporting discipline did the Japanese Hakuhō Shō distinguish himself?

Hakuhō Shō, born Mönkhbatin Davaajargal on March 11, 1985, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, is a Japanese (Mongolian until 2019) professional sumo wrestler. In 2007, he became the 69th yokozuna. He was the sixth non-Japanese wrestler to achieve the rank of ōzeki and the fourth to reach yokozuna status.

Hakuhō holds the records for tournament wins and match wins and is considered one of the greatest sumo champions of all time.

Hakuhō comes from a family with a Mongolian wrestling tradition. His father, Jigjidiin Mönkhbat, won the silver medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. When young Hakuhō was 15 years old, he traveled to Japan; Weighing only 62 kilograms, no sumo stable wanted him. Upon hearing this, a Mongolian sumo wrestler, Kyokushuzan, asked his stablemaster for help, and Hakuhō was admitted to the Miyagino-beya on the last day of his two-month stay. From his first bout on the dohyō in March 2001, he steadily gained weight until his promotion to the jūryō division in January 2004 and to makuuchi in May of the same year. His results in subsequent tournaments earned him promotion to komusubi in January 2005 and sekiwake one tournament later.

In March 2006, Hakuhō was promoted to ōzeki, a promotion that came just weeks after his twenty-first birthday, making him the fourth youngest wrestler to achieve this title in the history of modern sumo.