Karate at the 2006 Asian Games

Karate competed by men and women at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. Kata contested along with Kumite in seven weight classes for men and four for women. All competition took place at the Qatar Sports Club Indoor Hall on December 12 and 13. Each country was limited to having 5 male and 3 female athletes.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Tetsuya Furukawa  Japan	Ku Jin Keat  Malaysia	Noel Espinosa  Philippines
			Shen Chia-hao  Chinese Taipei
Kumite −55 kg	Hsieh Cheng-kang  Chinese Taipei	Puvaneswaran Ramasamy  Malaysia	Thamer Al-Malki  Saudi Arabia
			Phạm Trần Nguyên  Vietnam
Kumite −60 kg	Hossein Rouhani  Iran	Kunasilan Lakanathan  Malaysia	Huang Hsiang-chen  Chinese Taipei
			Abdullah Dalloul  Qatar
Kumite −65 kg	Hassan Rouhani  Iran	Shion Kayahara  Japan	Lim Yoke Wai  Malaysia
			Magid Adwan  Qatar
Kumite −70 kg	Abdullah Al-Otaibi  Kuwait	Naowras Al-Hamwi  Syria	Saeid Farrokhi  Iran
			Takuro Nihei  Japan
Kumite −75 kg	Jasem Vishgahi  Iran	Ko Matsuhisa  Japan	Shattyk Kazhymukanov  Kazakhstan
			Talat Khalil  Jordan
Kumite −80 kg	Ahmad Munir  Kuwait	Ryosuke Shimizu  Japan	Mutasembellah Khair  Jordan
			Esmaeil Torkzad  Iran
Kumite +80 kg	Khalid Khalidov  Kazakhstan	Jaber Al-Hammad  Kuwait	Amer Abu-Afifeh  Jordan
			Umar Syarief  Indonesia

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Nao Morooka  Japan	Nguyễn Hoàng Ngân  Vietnam	Cheung Pui Si  Macau
			Lim Lee Lee  Malaysia
Kumite −48 kg	Vũ Thị Nguyệt Ánh  Vietnam	Vasantha Marial Anthony  Malaysia	Jittikan Tiemsurakan  Thailand
			Chen Yen-hui  Chinese Taipei
Kumite −53 kg	Tomoko Araga  Japan	Marna Pabillore  Philippines	Venera Zhetibay  Kazakhstan
			Jenny Zeannet  Indonesia
Kumite −60 kg	Yuka Sato  Japan	Nguyễn Thị Hải Yến  Vietnam	Chan Ka Man  Hong Kong
			Yamini Gopalasamy  Malaysia
Kumite +60 kg	Sofiya Kaspulatova  Uzbekistan	Maitha Al-Maktoum  United Arab Emirates	Mardiah Nasution  Indonesia
			Paula Cristina Pereira  Macau

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	3	1	8
2	Iran (IRI)	3	0	2	5
3	Kuwait (KUW)	2	1	0	3
4	Vietnam (VIE)	1	2	1	4
5	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	1	0	3	4
6	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	2	3
7	Uzbekistan (UZB)	1	0	0	1
8	Malaysia (MAS)	0	4	3	7
9	Philippines (PHI)	0	1	1	2
10	Syria (SYR)	0	1	0	1
	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0	1	0	1
12	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	3	3
	Jordan (JOR)	0	0	3	3
14	Macau (MAC)	0	0	2	2
	Qatar (QAT)	0	0	2	2
16	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	0	1	1
	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	0	1	1
	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
Total		13	13	26	52

Participating nations

A total of 196 athletes from 34 nations competed in karate at the 2006 Asian Games:

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External links

• Official website