2018 World Karate Championships

2018 World Karate Championships

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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.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Ryo Kiyuna Japan (JPN)	Damián Quintero Spain (ESP)	Ali Sofuoğlu Turkey (TUR)
			Mattia Busato Italy (ITA)
Team kata	Japan Arata Kinjo Ryo Kiyuna Takuya Uemura	Spain José Carbonell Sergio Galán Francisco Salazar	Iran Milad Delikhoun Abolfazl Shahrjerdi Ali Zand
			Italy Gianluca Gallo Alessandro Iodice Giuseppe Panagia
Kumite −60 kg	Angelo Crescenzo Italy (ITA)	Naoto Sago Japan (JPN)	Darkhan Assadilov Kazakhstan (KAZ)
			Abdessalam Ameknassi Morocco (MAR)
Kumite −67 kg	Steven Da Costa France (FRA)	Vinícius Figueira Brazil (BRA)	Camilo Velozo Chile (CHI)
			Hamoun Derafshipour Iran (IRI)
Kumite −75 kg	Bahman Askari Iran (IRI)	Luigi Busà Italy (ITA)	Ken Nishimura Japan (JPN)
			Rafael Aghayev Azerbaijan (AZE)
Kumite −84 kg	Ivan Kvesić Croatia (CRO)	Valerii Chobotar Ukraine (UKR)	Zabihollah Poursheib Iran (IRI)
			Uğur Aktaş Turkey (TUR)
Kumite +84 kg	Jonathan Horne Germany (GER)	Sajjad Ganjzadeh Iran (IRI)	Babacar Seck Spain (ESP)
			Alparslan Yamanoğlu Turkey (TUR)
Team kumite	Iran Saleh Abazari Ali Asghar Asiabari Bahman Askari Sajjad Ganjzadeh Saman Heidari Mehdi Khodabakhshi Zabihollah Poursheib	Turkey Uğur Aktaş Erman Eltemur Samed Gök Rıdvan Kaptan Ömer Abdurrahim Özer Burak Uygur Alparslan Yamanoğlu	Japan Daiki Ando Ryutaro Araga Hideyoshi Kagawa Yuta Mori Ken Nishimura Yusei Sakiyama Rikito Shimada
			Italy Ahmed El Sharaby Rabia Jendoubi Nello Maestri Luca Maresca Simone Marino Michele Martina Andrea Minardi

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Sandra Sánchez Spain (ESP)	Kiyou Shimizu Japan (JPN)	Grace Lau Hong Kong (HKG)
			Viviana Bottaro Italy (ITA)
Team kata	Japan Saori Ishibashi Mai Mugiyama Sae Taira	Spain Marta García Lidia Rodríguez Raquel Roy	Italy Sara Battaglia Terryana D'Onofrio Michela Pezzetti
			Turkey Dilara Eltemur Rabia Küsmüş Gizem Sofuoğlu
Kumite −50 kg	Miho Miyahara Japan (JPN)	Serap Özçelik Turkey (TUR)	Bettina Plank Austria (AUT)
			Sara Bahmanyar Iran (IRI)
Kumite −55 kg	Dorota Banaszczyk Poland (POL)	Jana Bitsch Germany (GER)	Wen Tzu-yun Chinese Taipei (TPE)
			Ivet Goranova Bulgaria (BUL)
Kumite −61 kg	Jovana Preković Serbia (SRB)	Yin Xiaoyan China (CHN)	Btissam Sadini Morocco (MAR)
			Giana Farouk Egypt (EGY)
Kumite −68 kg	Irina Zaretska Azerbaijan (AZE)	Victoria Isaeva Russia (RUS)	Lamya Matoub Algeria (ALG)
			Miroslava Kopúňová Slovakia (SVK)
Kumite +68 kg	Eleni Chatziliadou Greece (GRE)	Ayumi Uekusa Japan (JPN)	Shymaa Abou-El-Yazed Egypt (EGY)
			Hana Antunovic Sweden (SWE)
Team kumite	France Léa Avazeri Andréa Brito Leïla Heurtault Laura Sivert	Japan Natsumi Kawamura Ayaka Saito Mayumi Someya Ayumi Uekusa	Spain Cristina Ferrer Laura Palacio María Torres Cristina Vizcaíno
			Egypt Aisha Abdelrahman Shymaa Abou-El-Yazed Feryal Abdelaziz Giana Farouk

Participating nations

1117 athletes from 140 nations competed.

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

External links

• World Karate Federation
• Official website
• Result book