2016 World Karate Championships

Dates	25–30 October

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.

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 Assem 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.

• 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)

External links

• World Karate Federation
• Official website
• Results