Karate at the 2022 World Games

The karate competition at the 2022 World Games took place in July 2022,^[1] in Birmingham in United States, at the Birmingham Southern College. Originally scheduled to take place in July 2021, the Games were rescheduled for 8 and 9 July 2022 as a result of the 2020 Summer Olympics postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[2]

Karate at the 2022 World Games
Venue	Birmingham Southern College
Dates	8–9 July
No. of events	12
Competitors	94 from 41 nations
← 2017

Qualification

Main article: Karate at the 2022 World Games – Qualification

Participating nations

•   Algeria (1)
•   Australia (1)
•   Austria (1)
•   Azerbaijan (3)
•   Belgium (1)
•   Brazil (3)
•   Bulgaria (1)
•   Canada (3)
•   Chinese Taipei (2)
•   Chile (2)
•   Croatia (2)
•   Czech Republic (1)
•   Egypt (7)
•   Finland (1)
•   France (2)
•   Germany (3)
•   Greece (2)
•   Hong Kong (1)
•   Hungary (2)
•   Italy (5)
•   Japan (4)
•   Kazakhstan (3)
•   Kuwait (1)
•   Latvia (1)
•   Luxembourg (1)
•   Morocco (2)
•   Netherlands (2)
•   New Zealand (1)
•   North Macedonia (1)
•   Panama (1)
•   Peru (1)
•   Philippines (1)
•   Slovakia (1)
•   Spain (5)
•   Sweden (1)
•   Switzerland (2)
•   Tunisia (1)
•   Ukraine (6)
•   United States (12)
•   Uzbekistan (1)
•   Venezuela (2)

Medal table

  *   Host nation (United States)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Spain	2	2	0	4
2	Egypt	2	1	1	4
3	Ukraine	2	1	0	3
4	Japan	1	1	1	3
5	Brazil	1	1	0	2
6	Italy	1	0	1	2
7	Algeria	1	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan	1	0	0	1
	Philippines	1	0	0	1
10	Austria	0	1	0	1
	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Morocco	0	1	0	1
	Peru	0	1	0	1
	Venezuela	0	1	0	1
16	United States*	0	0	3	3
17	France	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		12	12	12	36

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kata details	Kazumasa Moto   Japan	Damián Quintero   Spain	Gakuji Tozaki   United States
Kumite 60 kg details	Ayoub Anis Helassa   Algeria	Douglas Brose   Brazil	Angelo Crescenzo   Italy
Kumite 67 kg details	Vinícius Figueira   Brazil	Yves Martial Tadissi   Hungary	Dionysios Xenos   Greece
Kumite 75 kg details	Abdalla Abdelaziz   Egypt	Stanislav Horuna   Ukraine	Dastonbek Otabolaev   Uzbekistan
Kumite 84 kg details	Youssef Badawy   Egypt	Nabil Ech-chaabi   Morocco	Kamran Madani   United States
Kumite +84 kg details	Babacar Seck   Spain	Anđelo Kvesić   Croatia	Taha Tarek   Egypt

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kata details	Sandra Sánchez   Spain	Hikaru Ono   Japan	Grace Lau   Hong Kong
Kumite 50 kg details	Junna Tsukii   Philippines	Yorgelis Salazar   Venezuela	Miho Miyahara   Japan
Kumite 55 kg details	Anzhelika Terliuga   Ukraine	Ahlam Youssef   Egypt	Trinity Allen   United States
Kumite 61 kg details	Anita Serogina   Ukraine	Alexandra Grande   Peru	Ingrida Suchánková   Slovakia
Kumite 68 kg details	Silvia Semeraro   Italy	Alisa Buchinger   Austria	Alizée Agier   France
Kumite +68 kg details	Sofya Berultseva   Kazakhstan	María Torres   Spain	Chehinez Jemi   Tunisia

References

1. "The World Games 2022 Sports programme". Retrieved 2020-08-29.
2. "2021 WORLD GAMES POSTPONED TO 2022 TO AVOID TOKYO OLYMPIC CLASH". reuters.com. Retrieved 2020-08-29.

External links

• The World Games 2022
• World Karate Federation
• Results book