2010 World Karate Championships

The 2010 World Karate Championships are the 20th edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Belgrade, Serbia from October 27 to October 31, 2010.

2010 World Karate Championships

Host city	Belgrade, Serbia
Dates	27–31 October
Main venue	Kombank Arena
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Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Antonio Díaz  Venezuela	Luca Valdesi  Italy	Itaru Oki  Japan
			Akio Tamashiro  Peru
Team kata	Italy Luca Valdesi Vincenzo Figuccio Lucio Maurino	Japan Itaru Oki Takumi Hasegawa Masashi Ogihara	Peru Akio Tamashiro Jimmy Moreno Hafid Zevallos
			Spain Fernando San José Damián Quintero Francisco Salazar
Kumite −60 kg	Douglas Brose  Brazil	Michele Giuliani  Italy	Matías Gómez  Spain
			Kalvis Kalniņš  Latvia
Kumite −67 kg	Dimitrios Triantafyllis  Greece	Hamed Ziksari  Iran	Ádám Kovács  Hungary
			Shinji Nagaki  Japan
Kumite −75 kg	Rafael Aghayev  Azerbaijan	Luigi Busà  Italy	Nermin Potur  Bosnia and Herzegovina
			Miloš Jovanović  Serbia
Kumite −84 kg	Slobodan Bitević  Serbia	Yavuz Karamollaoğlu  Turkey	Ludovic Cacheux  France
			Islamutdin Eldaruchev  Russia
Kumite +84 kg	Dejan Umičević  Serbia	Mohanad Magdy  Egypt	Shahin Atamov  Azerbaijan
			Žarko Arsovski  Macedonia
Team kumite	Serbia Miloš Jovanović Miloš Živković Dejan Umičević Dimitrije Jerković Slobodan Bitević Miloš Vuković Nikola Jovanović	Azerbaijan Rashad Huseynov Rafael Aghayev Amal Atayev Shahin Atamov Israfil Shirinov Sanan Aliyev Niyazi Aliyev	Bosnia and Herzegovina Admir Zukan Tarik Lušija Oliver Mandarić Alem Kupusović Mate Odak Nermin Potur Adnan Adilović
			Egypt Mohamed Abdelrahman Sayed Salem Mohanad Magdy Hany Shakr Ossama Abdelaziz Tamer Abdelraouf Mohamed Gamal

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Yohana Sánchez  Venezuela	Nguyễn Hoàng Ngân  Vietnam	Mirna Šenjug  Croatia
			Rika Usami  Japan
Team kata	Japan Kazuyo Inoue Yoko Kimura Fumi Sakai	Vietnam Nguyễn Hoàng Ngân Nguyễn Thanh Hằng Đỗ Thị Thu Hà	Italy Sara Battaglia Viviana Bottaro Michela Pezzetti
			Spain Fátima de Acuña Ruth Jiménez Yaiza Martín
Kumite −50 kg	Li Hong  China	Betty Aquilina  France	Cheili González  Guatemala
			Tyler Wolfe  United States
Kumite −55 kg	Miki Kobayashi  Japan	Sara Cardin  Italy	Jelena Kovačević  Croatia
			Shannon Nishi  United States
Kumite −61 kg	Kristina Mah  Australia	Lolita Dona  France	Natalie Williams  England
			Diana Schwab  Switzerland
Kumite −68 kg	Yadira Lira  Mexico	Asumi Ishizuka  Japan	Irene Colomar  Spain
			Hafsa Şeyda Burucu  Turkey
Kumite +68 kg	Greta Vitelli  Italy	Nadège Aït-Ibrahim  France	Merima Softić  Bosnia and Herzegovina
			Tang Lingling  China
Team kumite	France Tiffany Fanjat Lolita Dona Alexandra Recchia Ruth Soufflet	Spain Cristina Feo Cristina Vizcaíno Irene Colomar Carmen Vicente	Croatia Maša Martinović Azra Saleš Ana-Marija Čelan Ivona Tubić
			United States Elisa Au-Fonseca Shannon Nishi Ashley Hill Cheryl Murphy

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Serbia	3	0	1	4
2	Italy	2	4	1	7
3	Japan	2	2	3	7
4	Venezuela	2	0	0	2
5	France	1	3	1	5
6	Azerbaijan	1	1	1	3
7	China	1	0	1	2
8	Australia	1	0	0	1
	Brazil	1	0	0	1
	Greece	1	0	0	1
	Mexico	1	0	0	1
12	Vietnam	0	2	0	2
13	Spain	0	1	4	5
14	Egypt	0	1	1	2
	Turkey	0	1	1	2
16	Iran	0	1	0	1
17	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	3	3
	Croatia	0	0	3	3
	United States	0	0	3	3
20	Peru	0	0	2	2
21	England	0	0	1	1
	Guatemala	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Latvia	0	0	1	1
	Macedonia	0	0	1	1
	Russia	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 entries)		16	16	32	64

Participating nations

875 athletes from 88 nations competed.^[1]

•  Albania (4)
•  Algeria (17)
•  Andorra (1)
•  Argentina (10)
•  Armenia (3)
•  Australia (5)
•  Austria (11)
•  Azerbaijan (11)
•  Belarus (12)
•  Belgium (9)
•  Benin (1)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (14)
•  Botswana (6)
•  Brazil (13)
•  Bulgaria (14)
•  Canada (12)
•  Chile (10)
•  China (12)
•  Chinese Taipei (8)
•  Colombia (4)
•  Croatia (25)
•  Czech Republic (3)
•  Denmark (9)
•  Ecuador (6)
•  Egypt (20)
•  England (10)
•  Estonia (5)
•  Finland (6)
•  France (25)
•  Georgia (2)
•  Germany (19)
•  Greece (12)
•  Guatemala (2)
•  Hong Kong (18)
•  Hungary (10)
•  India (17)
•  Indonesia (13)
•  Iran (16)
•  Israel (2)
•  Italy (19)
•  Japan (20)
•  Jordan (6)
•  Kazakhstan (13)
•  Kuwait (13)
•  Latvia (3)
•  Libya (5)
•  Luxembourg (3)
•  Macau (8)
• Macedonia (22)
•  Malaysia (8)
•  Mexico (13)
•  Moldova (1)
•  Montenegro (21)
•  Morocco (11)
•  Mozambique (2)
•  Netherlands (13)
•  Netherlands Antilles (2)
•  New Zealand (5)
•  Nicaragua (1)
•  Peru (6)
•  Poland (4)
•  Portugal (4)
•  Puerto Rico (2)
•  Qatar (3)
•  Romania (6)
•  Russia (22)
•  São Tomé and Príncipe (1)
•  Saudi Arabia (10)
•  Scotland (9)
•  Senegal (11)
•  Serbia (23)
•  Slovakia (14)
•  Slovenia (13)
•  South Africa (17)
•  South Korea (10)
•  Spain (20)
•  Sweden (8)
•  Switzerland (11)
•  Syria (8)
•  Tunisia (10)
•  Turkey (20)
•  Ukraine (5)
•  United Arab Emirates (8)
•  United States (14)
•  Uzbekistan (8)
•  Venezuela (12)
•  Vietnam (4)
•  Wales (6)