2008 World Karate Championships

The 2008 World Karate Championships are the 19th edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Tokyo, Japan from November 13 to November 16, 2008.^[1]

2008 World Karate Championships

Host city	Tokyo, Japan
Dates	13–16 November
Main venue	Nippon Budokan
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Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Luca Valdesi  Italy	Antonio Díaz  Venezuela	Vu Duc Minh Dack  France
			Mustafa Ibrahim  Egypt
Team kata	France Julien Dupont Ayoub Neghliz Jonathan Plagnol	Japan	Peru Jimmy Moreno Akio Tamashiro Hafid Zevallos
			Italy Vincenzo Figuccio Lucio Maurino Luca Valdesi
Kumite −60 kg	Danil Domdjoni  Croatia	Darkhan Assadilov  Kazakhstan	Hossein Rouhani  Iran
			Douglas Brose  Brazil
Kumite −65 kg	George Kotaka  United States	Ádám Kovács  Hungary	William Rollé  France
			Takuro Nihei  Japan
Kumite −70 kg	Rafael Aghayev  Azerbaijan	Tamer Abdelraouf  Egypt	Saeed Baghbani  Canada
			Shinji Nagaki  Japan
Kumite −75 kg	David Dubó  Chile	Müslüm Baştürk  Turkey	Mohamed Abdelrahman  Egypt
			Ko Matsuhisa  Japan
Kumite −80 kg	Satoshi Ibuchi  Japan	Islamutdin Eldaruchev  Russia	Hany Shakr  Egypt
			Alibek Prenov  Kazakhstan
Kumite +80 kg	Stefano Maniscalco  Italy	Ibrahim Gary  France	Calum Robb  Scotland
			Jonathan Horne  Germany
Kumite open	Rafael Aghayev  Azerbaijan	Spyridon Margaritopoulos  Greece	Stefano Maniscalco  Italy
			Gogita Arkania  Georgia
Team kumite	Turkey Okay Arpa Yusuf Başer Müslüm Baştürk Zeki Demir Yücel Dündoğdu Murat Salih Kurnaz Yaser Şahintekin	Serbia Slobodan Bitević Stefan Ivanović Dimitrije Jerković Miloš Jovanović Vladan Rudić Vranić Dejan Umičević Miloš Živković	Egypt
			Spain Iván Leal Adrián Martínez Francisco Martínez Óscar Martínez Cristian Rodríguez Antonio Sánchez Óscar Vázquez

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Nguyễn Hoàng Ngân  Vietnam	Sara Battaglia  Italy	Kasuga Wakabayashi  Japan
			Marija Madžarević  Serbia
Team kata	Japan	France Clotilde Boulanger Céline Chevalier Sonia Fiuza	Italy Sara Battaglia Viviana Bottaro Samantha Piccolo
			Spain Fátima de Acuña Ruth Jiménez Almudena Muñoz
Kumite −53 kg	Natsuki Fujiwara  Japan	Kora Knühmann  Germany	Gülderen Çelik  Turkey
			Elena Ponomareva  Russia
Kumite −60 kg	Maria Sobol  Russia	Nassim Varasteh  Canada	Katarina Strika  Serbia
			Vildan Doğan  Turkey
Kumite +60 kg	Tiffany Fanjat  France	Elisa Au-Fonseca  United States	Evgenia Podborodnikova  Russia
			Cristina Feo  Spain
Kumite open	Yuka Sato  Japan	Gloria Casanova  Spain	Ema Aničić  Croatia
			Eva Tulejová-Medveďová  Slovakia
Team kumite	Germany Yasmina Benadda Kora Knühmann Silvia Sperner Maria Weiß	Spain Gloria Casanova Irene Colomar Cristina Feo Carmen Vicente	Italy Selene Guglielmi Roberta Minet Laura Pasqua Greta Vitelli
			France Nadège Ait-Ibrahim Tiffany Fanjat Alexandra Recchia Ruth Soufflet

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Japan)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan*	4	1	4	9
2	France	2	2	3	7
3	Italy	2	1	4	7
4	Azerbaijan	2	0	0	2
5	Russia	1	1	2	4
	Turkey	1	1	2	4
7	Germany	1	1	1	3
8	United States	1	1	0	2
9	Croatia	1	0	1	2
10	Chile	1	0	0	1
	Vietnam	1	0	0	1
12	Spain	0	2	3	5
13	Egypt	0	1	4	5
14	Serbia	0	1	2	3
15	Canada	0	1	1	2
	Kazakhstan	0	1	1	2
17	Greece	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Venezuela	0	1	0	1
20	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	Georgia	0	0	1	1
	Iran	0	0	1	1
	Peru	0	0	1	1
	Scotland	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		17	17	34	68

Participating nations

888 athletes from 97 nations competed.

•  Afghanistan (4)
•  Algeria (7)
•  Argentina (5)
•  Armenia (4)
•  Australia (11)
•  Austria (10)
•  Azerbaijan (8)
•  Belarus (3)
•  Belgium (10)
•  Belize (2)
•  Benin (5)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (14)
•  Brazil (19)
•  Bulgaria (10)
•  Canada (16)
•  Chile (3)
•  China (13)
•  Chinese Taipei (11)
•  Colombia (11)
• Congo (7)
•  Costa Rica (12)
•  Croatia (26)
•  Czech Republic (10)
•  Denmark (16)
•  Dominican Republic (4)
•  Ecuador (3)
•  Egypt (16)
•  El Salvador (3)
•  England (15)
•  Estonia (6)
•  Fiji (2)
•  Finland (5)
•  France (23)
•  Georgia (1)
•  Germany (22)
•  Greece (14)
•  Hong Kong (20)
•  Hungary (5)
•  Iceland (2)
•  India (8)
•  Indonesia (7)
•  Iran (16)
•  Ireland (2)
•  Israel (4)
•  Italy (16)
•  Japan (19)
•  Jordan (4)
•  Kazakhstan (14)
•  Kuwait (11)
•  Latvia (1)
•  Macau (13)
• Macedonia (11)
•  Madagascar (1)
•  Malaysia (13)
•  Mauritius (5)
•  Mexico (15)
•  Moldova (2)
•  Montenegro (4)
•  Morocco (5)
•  Netherlands (8)
•  Netherlands Antilles (1)
•  New Zealand (9)
•  Nicaragua (1)
•  Nigeria (1)
•  Northern Ireland (1)
•  Norway (5)
•  Pakistan (4)
•  Peru (3)
•  Poland (10)
•  Portugal (8)
•  Qatar (6)
•  Romania (11)
•  Russia (21)
•  Saudi Arabia (9)
•  Scotland (8)
•  Senegal (11)
•  Serbia (18)
•  Singapore (3)
•  Slovakia (16)
•  Slovenia (9)
•  South Africa (18)
•  South Korea (15)
•  Spain (20)
•  Sweden (9)
•  Switzerland (10)
•  Syria (5)
•  Tajikistan (1)
•  Thailand (3)
•  Tunisia (10)
•  Turkey (24)
•  Ukraine (6)
•  United States (19)
•  Uruguay (1)
•  Uzbekistan (9)
•  Venezuela (13)
•  Vietnam (11)
•  Wales (2)