How to make it big in women's sumo... eat 5,000 calories a day | Mail Online

There aren’t too many women who reach their sporting peak by eating takeaways and fried chicken – and tipping the scales at a mighty 32 stone.

But then there aren’t too many women who take up sumo wrestling.

In fact, the British female ‘team’ currently has just one member – 6ft mother of three Sharran Alexander.