2018 World Karate Championships

2018 World Karate Championships

Host city	Madrid, Spain
Dates	6–11 November
Main venue	WiZink Center

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	Damián Quintero Spain	Ali Sofuoğlu Turkey
			Mattia Busato Italy
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	Naoto Sago Japan	Darkhan Assadilov Kazakhstan
			Abdessalam Ameknassi Morocco
Kumite −67 kg	Steven Da Costa France	Vinícius Figueira Brazil	Camilo Velozo Chile
			Hamoun Derafshipour Iran
Kumite −75 kg	Bahman Askari Iran	Luigi Busà Italy	Ken Nishimura Japan
			Rafael Aghayev Azerbaijan
Kumite −84 kg	Ivan Kvesić Croatia	Valerii Chobotar Ukraine	Zabihollah Pourshab Iran
			Uğur Aktaş Turkey
Kumite +84 kg	Jonathan Horne Germany	Sajjad Ganjzadeh Iran	Babacar Seck Spain
			Alparslan Yamanoğlu Turkey
Team kumite	Iran Saleh Abazari Ali Asghar Asiabari Bahman Askari Sajjad Ganjzadeh Saman Heidari Mehdi Khodabakhshi Zabihollah Pourshab	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	Kiyou Shimizu Japan	Grace Lau Hong Kong
			Viviana Bottaro Italy
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 Bozan Rabia Küsmüş Gizem Sofuoğlu
Kumite −50 kg	Miho Miyahara Japan	Serap Özçelik Turkey	Bettina Plank Austria
			Sara Bahmanyar Iran
Kumite −55 kg	Dorota Banaszczyk Poland	Jana Bitsch Germany	Wen Tzu-yun Chinese Taipei
			Ivet Goranova Bulgaria
Kumite −61 kg	Jovana Preković Serbia	Yin Xiaoyan China	Btissam Sadini Morocco
			Giana Farouk Egypt
Kumite −68 kg	Irina Zaretska Azerbaijan	Victoria Isaeva Russia	Lamya Matoub Algeria
			Miroslava Kopúňová Slovakia
Kumite +68 kg	Eleni Chatziliadou Greece	Ayumi Uekusa Japan	Shymaa Abou-El-Yazed Egypt
			Hana Antunovic Sweden
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

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 entries)		16	16	32	64

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