CSA STARS

Svetoslav Binev is a sports legend in his native Bulgaria. He has won many free-style wrestling championships for over 20 years, including the national free-style wrestling championship. He has also won national titles in power lifting, track and field, and handball, and has received numerous awards, including Outstanding Male Athlete of the Year in Bulgaria. Mr. Binev began practicing sumo in 1997, and immediately started winning national and continental championships all over Europe. He won the World Sumo Championships in 1998 and 1999, before immigrating to America in 2000. Not only is Mr. Binev a renowned international sumo champion, but he also has extensive coaching success. In his first year as coach of the Bulgarian National Sumo Team, he led Bulgaria from a non-entity to the #2 sumo nation in the world (after Japan)! Mr. Binev's guidance of CSA athletes has been a major factor in CSA sumo successes.

Svetoslav Binev Byambajav Ulambayar Bayanbat Davaadalai


Byambajav Ulambayar was recruited in Mongolia at age 15 by a visiting Japanese sumo master, and accepted an invitation to enter professional Japanese sumo a few months later. Under the “shikona” (sumo name) of “Daishochi”, he made an immediate impact, winning a divisional championship while still only 16 years old! He rose quickly up the ranks, and by the tender age of 18, Daishochi was the highest-ranked wrestler in his “heya” (sumo stable, or team). Daishochi seemed destined for pro sumo's very highest ranks, but just after turning 20, opted to leave pro sumo. He subsequently won the Mongolian Sumo Championships and then the World Sumo Championships for two years in a row! As the current (and two time) heavyweight World Champion, he aspires to multiple such titles in the coming years. Mr. Ulambayar is quite a hero in Mongolia, and is also becoming known on the international sumo stage, thanks to his dominance at the World Sumo Championships. He is currently undefeated in individual, international competition, with over 50 consecutive victories!

Bayanbat Davaadalai has been practicing sumo on a daily basis since 1999, and holds a sumo coaching certificate from his Japanese university, and a sumo referee's license. He spent five years competing in Japan, and achieved success on the international level, representing Mongolia in sumo at the World Sumo Championships, the World Games, and several other international events in Japan and on three continents. Mr. Davaadalai is a technical expert, and is enthusiastic about sharing his wealth of sumo knowledge with those wishing to learn.