Less than four years after fleeing the 2022 Russian invasion and landing in Japan, Ukrainian sumo wrestler Danylo Yavhusishyn stands poised to become the first-ever European-born wrestler to be named a Yokozuna (Grand Champion), the highest ranking in the sport. In January, the 21-year-old won his second consecutive top-division title. Yavhusishyn was born in Vinnytsia in central Ukraine in 2004. His first glimpse of sumo wrestling came around 2010, when his mother was running late to pick him up from a judo lesson. As the boy waited, a sumo training…