2018 World Karate Championships

2018 World Karate Championships
Host city	Madrid, Spain
Dates	6–11 November
Main venue	WiZink Center
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The 2018 World Karate Championships were the 24th edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Madrid, Spain from November 6 to November 11, 2018.^[1]

Medalists[]

Men[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata details	Ryo Kiyuna Japan	Damián Quintero Spain	Ali Sofuoğlu Turkey
Individual kata details	Ryo Kiyuna Japan	Damián Quintero Spain	Mattia Busato Italy
Team kata details	Japan Arata Kinjo Ryo Kiyuna Takuya Uemura	Spain	Iran Ali Zand
Team kata details	Japan Arata Kinjo Ryo Kiyuna Takuya Uemura	Spain	Italy
Kumite −60 kg	Angelo Crescenzo Italy	Naoto Sago Japan	Darkhan Assadilov Kazakhstan
Kumite −60 kg	Angelo Crescenzo Italy	Naoto Sago Japan	Abdessalam Ameknassi Morocco
Kumite −67 kg details	Steven Da Costa France	Vinícius Figueira Brazil	Camilo Velozo Chile
Kumite −67 kg details	Steven Da Costa France	Vinícius Figueira Brazil	Hamoun Derafshipour Iran
Kumite −75 kg	Bahman Askari Iran	Luigi Busà Italy	Ken Nishimura Japan
Kumite −75 kg	Bahman Askari Iran	Luigi Busà Italy	Rafael Aghayev Azerbaijan
Kumite −84 kg	Ivan Kvesić Croatia	Valerii Chobotar Ukraine	Zabihollah Poursheib Iran
Kumite −84 kg	Ivan Kvesić Croatia	Valerii Chobotar Ukraine	Uğur Aktaş Turkey
Kumite +84 kg	Jonathan Horne Germany	Sajjad Ganjzadeh Iran	Babacar Seck Spain
Kumite +84 kg	Jonathan Horne Germany	Sajjad Ganjzadeh Iran	Alparslan Yamanoğlu Turkey
Team kumite details	Iran Saleh Abazari Bahman Askari Sajjad Ganjzadeh Zabihollah Poursheib	Turkey Uğur Aktaş Erman Eltemur Burak Uygur Alparslan Yamanoğlu	Japan Ryutaro Araga Hideyoshi Kagawa Ken Nishimura
Team kumite details			Italy Luca Maresca Simone Marino Michele Martina

Women[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata details	Sandra Sánchez Spain	Kiyou Shimizu Japan	Grace Lau Hong Kong
Individual kata details	Sandra Sánchez Spain	Kiyou Shimizu Japan	Viviana Bottaro Italy
Team kata details	Japan Saori Ishibashi Mai Mugiyama Sae Taira	Spain	Italy Sara Battaglia Terryana D'Onofrio Michela Pezzetti
Team kata details	Japan Saori Ishibashi Mai Mugiyama Sae Taira	Spain	Turkey Dilara Eltemur Rabia Küsmüş
Kumite −50 kg	Miho Miyahara Japan	Serap Özçelik Turkey	Bettina Plank Austria
Kumite −50 kg	Miho Miyahara Japan	Serap Özçelik Turkey	Sara Bahmanyar Iran
Kumite −55 kg	Dorota Banaszczyk Poland	Jana Bitsch Germany	Wen Tzu-yun Chinese Taipei
Kumite −55 kg	Dorota Banaszczyk Poland	Jana Bitsch Germany	Ivet Goranova Bulgaria
Kumite −61 kg	Jovana Preković Serbia	Yin Xiaoyan China	Btissam Sadini Morocco
Kumite −61 kg	Jovana Preković Serbia	Yin Xiaoyan China	Giana Farouk Egypt
Kumite −68 kg	Irina Zaretska Azerbaijan	Victoria Isaeva Russia	Lamya Matoub Algeria
Kumite −68 kg	Irina Zaretska Azerbaijan	Victoria Isaeva Russia	Slovakia
Kumite +68 kg	Eleni Chatziliadou Greece	Ayumi Uekusa Japan	Egypt
Kumite +68 kg	Eleni Chatziliadou Greece	Ayumi Uekusa Japan	Hana Antunovic Sweden
Team kumite details	France Leïla Heurtault	Japan Natsumi Kawamura Ayaka Saito Mayumi Someya Ayumi Uekusa	Spain
Team kumite details	France Leïla Heurtault		Egypt Feryal Abdelaziz Giana Farouk

Medal table[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	4	4	2	10
2	Iran	2	1	4	7
3	France	2	0	0	2
4	Spain	1	3	2	6
5	Italy	1	1	5	7
6	Germany	1	1	0	2
7	Azerbaijan	1	0	1	2
8	Croatia	1	0	0	1
	Greece	1	0	0	1
	Poland	1	0	0	1
	Serbia	1	0	0	1
12	Turkey	0	2	4	6
13	Brazil	0	1	0	1
	China	0	1	0	1
	Russia	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
17	Egypt	0	0	3	3
18	Morocco	0	0	2	2
19	Algeria	0	0	1	1
	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Chile	0	0	1	1
	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 nations)		16	16	32	64

Participating nations[]

1117 athletes from 140 nations competed.^[2]

Albania (3)
Algeria (16)
Andorra (1)
Angola (3)
Argentina (6)
Armenia (8)
Australia (12)
Austria (13)
Azerbaijan (15)
Bangladesh (3)
Belarus (14)
Belgium (12)
Benin (1)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (14)
Botswana (2)
Brazil (16)
Bulgaria (7)
Burkina Faso (7)
Burundi (2)
Cambodia (2)
Cameroon (9)
Canada (14)
Cape Verde (7)
Cayman Islands (1)
Chad (4)
Chile (7)
China (12)
Chinese Taipei (14)
Colombia (16)
Congo (7)
Costa Rica (12)
Croatia (16)
Cuba (3)
Curaçao (2)
Cyprus (4)
Czech Republic (10)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (8)
Denmark (13)
Djibouti (1)
Dominican Republic (14)
Ecuador (3)
Egypt (14)
El Salvador (4)
England (15)
Estonia (3)
Fiji (2)
Finland (11)
France (15)
Gabon (2)
Georgia (5)
Germany (14)
Ghana (5)
Greece (5)
Guatemala (10)
Hong Kong (13)
Hungary (11)
Iceland (5)
India (16)
Indonesia (12)
Iran (16)
Iraq (2)
Ireland (11)
Israel (7)
Italy (15)
Ivory Coast (11)
Jamaica (1)
Japan (16)
Jordan (10)
Kazakhstan (14)
Kosovo (13)^[3]
Kuwait (8)
Kyrgyzstan (11)
Latvia (12)
Lebanon (3)
Liechtenstein (1)
Lithuania (8)
Macau (5)
Macedonia (13)
Madagascar (3)
Malaysia (7)
Malta (1)
Mexico (13)
Moldova (4)
Montenegro (11)
Morocco (11)
Mozambique (8)
Namibia (4)
Nepal (5)
Netherlands (10)
New Zealand (9)
Nicaragua (1)
Nigeria (3)
Northern Ireland (1)
Norway (7)
North Korea (2)
Oman (4)
Pakistan (5)
Palestine (6)
Panama (10)
Paraguay (3)
Peru (15)^[4]
Philippines (3)
Poland (8)
Portugal (12)
Puerto Rico (1)
Qatar (3)
Refugee Karate Team (2)
Romania (15)
Russia (16)
San Marino (1)
Saudi Arabia (7)
Scotland (7)
Senegal (10)
Serbia (16)
Sierra Leone (1)
Singapore (1)
Slovakia (15)
Slovenia (7)
South Africa (9)
South Korea (9)
Spain (16)
Sri Lanka (3)
Sweden (11)
Switzerland (10)
Tajikistan (7)
Thailand (6)
Timor-Leste (2)
Trinidad and Tobago (4)
Tunisia (13)
Turkey (16)
Ukraine (14)
United Arab Emirates (5)
United States (14)
Uruguay (4)
Uzbekistan (10)
Venezuela (12)
Vietnam (3)
Wales (6)
Yemen (1)
Zimbabwe (1)

References[]

^ "Remembering the 2018 Karate World Championships". World Karate Federation. 11 November 2020. Archived from the original on 13 November 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
^ "24th World Senior Karate Championships – Participation List". World Karate Federation. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
^ Kosovo competed under the WKF flag
^ Peru competed under the WKF flag

External links[]

[remembering_world_karate_championships_2018-1] "Remembering the 2018 Karate World Championships". World Karate Federation. 11 November 2020. Archived from the original on 13 November 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.

[2] "24th World Senior Karate Championships – Participation List". World Karate Federation. Retrieved 6 November 2018.

[3] Kosovo competed under the WKF flag

[4] Peru competed under the WKF flag

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