2016 World Karate Championships

The 2016 World Karate Championships were the 23rd edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Linz, Austria from October 25 to October 30, 2016.

2016 World Karate Championships

Host city	Linz, Austria
Dates	25–30 October
Main venue	TipsArena Linz
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Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Ryo Kiyuna   Japan	Damián Quintero   Spain	Ilja Smorguner   Germany
			Antonio Díaz   Venezuela
Team kata	Japan Arata Kinjo Ryo Kiyuna Takuya Uemura	France Lucas Jeannot Enzo Montarello Ahmed Zemouri	Italy Mattia Busato Alessandro Iodice Alfredo Tocco
			Spain José Carbonell Damián Quintero Francisco Salazar
Kumite −60 kg	Amir Mehdizadeh   Iran	Geoffrey Berens   Netherlands	Firdovsi Farzaliyev   Azerbaijan
			Sofiane Agoudjil   France
Kumite −67 kg	Jordan Thomas   England	Yves Martial Tadissi   Hungary	Steven Da Costa   France
			Andrés Madera   Venezuela
Kumite −75 kg	Rafael Aghayev   Azerbaijan	Omar Abdelrahman   Egypt	Ali Asghar Asiabari   Iran
			Luigi Busà   Italy
Kumite −84 kg	Ryutaro Araga   Japan	Aykhan Mamayev   Azerbaijan	Zabihollah Poursheib   Iran
			Kenji Grillon   France
Kumite +84 kg	Sajjad Ganjzadeh   Iran	Achraf Ouchen   Morocco	Anđelo Kvesić   Croatia
			Herolind Nishevci   Kosovo
Team kumite	Iran Saeid Ahmadi Bahman Askari Ali Fadakar Sajjad Ganjzadeh Mehdi Khodabakhshi Zabihollah Poursheib Iman Sanchouli	Japan Ryutaro Araga Rikiya Iimura Masaya Ishizuka Hideyoshi Kagawa Ken Nishimura Hiroto Shinohara Daisuke Watanabe	Germany Noah Bitsch Mehmet Bolat Nico Drexel Ricardo Giegler Jonathan Horne Heinrich Leistenschneider Robin Winters
			France Amin Bouazza Jessie Da Costa Logan Da Costa Steven Da Costa Marvin Garin Kenji Grillon Corentin Seguy

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Kiyou Shimizu   Japan	Sarah Sayed   Egypt	Viviana Bottaro   Italy
			Sandra Sánchez   Spain
Team kata	Japan Miku Morioka Hikaru Ono Kyosuke Yamashita	Spain Gema Morales Margarita Morata Paula Rodríguez	Italy Sara Battaglia Viviana Bottaro Michela Pezzetti
			Turkey Dilara Bozan Rabia Küsmüş Gizem Şahin
Kumite −50 kg	Alexandra Recchia   France	Miho Miyahara   Japan	Radwa Sayed   Egypt
			Bettina Plank   Austria
Kumite −55 kg	Emily Thouy   France	Valéria Kumizaki   Brazil	Wen Tzu-yun   Chinese Taipei
			Sara Yamada   Japan
Kumite −61 kg	Giana Farouk   Egypt	Lucie Ignace   France	Anita Serogina   Ukraine
			Ingrida Suchánková   Slovakia
Kumite −68 kg	Alisa Buchinger   Austria	Katrine Pedersen   Denmark	Ivona Ćavar   Bosnia and Herzegovina
			Marina Raković   Montenegro
Kumite +68 kg	Ayumi Uekusa   Japan	Eleni Chatziliadou   Greece	Dominika Tatárová   Slovakia
			Hamideh Abbasali   Iran
Team kumite	France Alizée Agier Leïla Heurtault Lucie Ignace Alexandra Recchia	Spain Cristina Ferrer Laura Palacio Rocío Sánchez Cristina Vizcaíno	United States Ashley Davis Cheryl Murphy Brandi Robinson Maya Wasowicz
			Egypt Giana Farouk Yassmin Hamdy Randa Rousfelt Nada Sayed

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	6	2	1	9
2	France	3	2	4	9
3	Iran	3	0	3	6
4	Egypt	1	2	2	5
5	Azerbaijan	1	1	1	3
6	Austria	1	0	1	2
7	England	1	0	0	1
8	Spain	0	3	2	5
9	Brazil	0	1	0	1
	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Greece	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Morocco	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
15	Italy	0	0	4	4
16	Germany	0	0	2	2
	Slovakia	0	0	2	2
	Venezuela	0	0	2	2
19	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	1	1
	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Kosovo	0	0	1	1
	Montenegro	0	0	1	1
	Turkey	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 entries)		16	16	32	64

Participating nations

1024 athletes from 118 nations competed.^[1]

•   Afghanistan (2)
•   Albania (3)
•   Algeria (14)
•   Andorra (1)
•   Argentina (5)
•   Armenia (6)
•   Australia (11)
•   Austria (15)
•   Azerbaijan (14)
•   Bangladesh (7)
•   Belarus (7)
•   Belgium (9)
•   Bosnia and Herzegovina (14)
•   Botswana (4)
•   Brazil (16)
•   Bulgaria (8)
•   Cameroon (10)
•   Canada (15)
•   Chad (12)
•   Chile (13)
•   China (13)
•   Chinese Taipei (11)
•   Colombia (6)
•   Congo (6)
•   Costa Rica (3)
•   Croatia (16)
•   Curaçao (2)
•   Cyprus (3)
•   Czech Republic (7)
•   Denmark (14)
•   Dominican Republic (14)
•   Ecuador (10)
•   Egypt (16)
•   England (13)
•   Estonia (4)
•   Fiji (2)
•   Finland (8)
•   France (16)
•   Georgia (7)
•   Germany (14)
•   Ghana (11)
•   Greece (11)
•   Guatemala (7)
•   Hong Kong (14)
•   Hungary (12)
•   Iceland (5)
•   India (16)
•   Indonesia (13)
•   Iran (16)
•   Iraq (8)
•   Ireland (12)
•   Israel (9)
•   Italy (16)
•   Ivory Coast (1)
•   Japan (16)
•   Jordan (4)
•   Kazakhstan (13)
•   Kenya (15)
•   Kosovo (8)
•   Kyrgyzstan (7)
•   Latvia (3)
•   Lebanon (2)
•   Libya (4)
•   Luxembourg (2)
•   Macau (9)
•   Macedonia (12)
•   Madagascar (2)
•   Malaysia (7)
•   Mali (3)
•   Malta (1)
•   Mexico (14)
•   Moldova (2)
•   Montenegro (12)
•   Morocco (10)
•   Mozambique (8)
•   Nepal (1)
•   Netherlands (10)
•   New Zealand (9)
•   Nicaragua (4)
•   Norway (4)
•   Oman (2)
•   Pakistan (1)
•   Palestine (2)
•   Papua New Guinea (4)
•   Paraguay (3)
•   Peru (13)
•   Poland (15)
•   Portugal (15)
•   Puerto Rico (1)
•   Qatar (4)
•   Romania (15)
•   Russia (16)
•   Rwanda (2)
•   San Marino (1)
•   Saudi Arabia (8)
•   Scotland (1)
•   Senegal (9)
•   Serbia (16)
•   Slovakia (15)
•   Slovenia (13)
•   South Africa (13)
•   South Korea (10)
•   Spain (16)
•   Sri Lanka (5)
•   Sweden (2)
•   Switzerland (11)
•   Thailand (3)
•   Tunisia (13)
•   Turkey (16)
•   Ukraine (15)
•   United Arab Emirates (6)
•   United States (16)
•   Uruguay (2)
•   Uzbekistan (10)
•   Venezuela (12)
•   Vietnam (7)
•   Wales (6)
•   Yemen (1)

References

1. "23rd World Senior Karate Championships – Participation List". World Karate Federation. Retrieved 27 October 2016.

External links

• World Karate Federation
• Official website
• Results