Help celebrate 20 years of Sumo Dan at the Olympia Sumo Championship.

Sumo Dan's Olympia Sumo Championship has been invited back to Joe Weider’s Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend in Las Vegas, NV, USA on October 10-11, 2025.

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***Athlete Entry Fee***

Tournament Entry Fee - $70.00

Tournament Entry Fee includes:

• Entry into the Olympia Fitness Expo
• Olympia Sumo T-shirt - *(Subject to size availability)
• 1 Package of Dude Wipes flushable wipes (Mawashi Savers)
• ...more to come...

(Entry ends October 7th)

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***Dates***

Friday, October 10, 2025 - Saturday, October 11, 2025

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***Tentative Schedule***

• Thursday: Set-Up and Athlete Check-In
• Friday: Training and Exhibition Brackets
• Saturday: Competition - Women's Brackets and Men's Brackets

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***Location***

Las Vegas Convention Center

3150 Paradise Rd

Las Vegas, NV  89109

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***Weigh-Ins***

We are still arranging dates, times, and locations for weigh-ins.  We will try to get athletes weighed in as soon as they are ready. 

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***Weight Classes***

Lightweight Women: <65 kg

Middleweight Women: <73 kg

Light-Heavyweight Women: <80 kg

Heavyweight Women: >80 kg

(Depending on the number of women competing, we may need to combine weight classes in order to have enough competition matches.)

Lightweight Men: <85 kg

Middleweight Men: <100 kg

Light-Heavyweight Men: <115 kg

Heavyweight Men: >115 kg

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***Openweight***

The Openweight divisions are by special invitation. 

The 4 top placing athletes from each of the weighted classes will be invited to compete in the Openweight brackets, Women and Men.

We should have more bracket spaces available, so we should be able to invite more athletes to participate based on merit, performance, country representation, and available time.   We plan to limit the Openweight to a 32-Man Double Elimination Bracket.  Depending on the number of athletes wanting to compete, and our time available, we may be able to add more athletes.

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***Competition Attire***

All athletes must wear a clean, properly tied mawashi.

Women: Please wear a solid color, one-piece singlet or bodysuit. (no large
corporate logos; country ID or team logos okay)

Men: traditional attire (mawashi only) is preferred.  We will allow men to wear a pair of skin-tight, over the knee, BLACK shorts underneath the mawashi. (no large corporate logos; country ID or team logos okay).  Also, there must be no gap between the waistband of the shorts and the bottom of your mawashi.

(Men invited to compete in the Openweight division will not be allowed wear shorts.)

(No jewelry is allowed.  If you have facial jewelry that cannot be removed, they must be covered by athletic tape.)

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 ***Tournament Format***

We plan on using a double elimination format to determine winners: (1 loss - you are still able to win the championship, 2 losses - you are out of the tournament) 

Each athlete will be guaranteed a minimum of 2 tournament matches. 

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***Open Dohyo***

On Friday, we plan to have the dohyo open for training and exhibition tournament brackets.  You should have many opportunities for challenge matches.

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***Spectators***

Anyone with a pass to the Olympia Expo will be able to watch Sumo Dan's Olympia Sumo Championship and every other strength sport competition at the Olympia Expo.

Olympia Expo passes should be available for purchase here:

Olympia Ticket Options | Olympia Weekend (mrolympia.com)

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***Airport***

Harry Reid International Airport (LAS)

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***Hotel***

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For any questions or for more information, please email us at:  dankalbfleisch@yahoo.com