2018 World Karate Championships

The 2018 World Karate Championships were the 24th edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Madrid, Spain from November 6 to November 11, 2018.^[1]

2018 World Karate Championships

Host city	Madrid, Spain
Dates	6–11 November
Main venue	WiZink Center
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Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata details	Ryo Kiyuna  Japan	Damián Quintero  Spain	Ali Sofuoğlu  Turkey
			Mattia Busato  Italy
Team kata details	Japan Arata Kinjo Ryo Kiyuna Takuya Uemura	Spain José Carbonell Sergio Galán Francisco Salazar	Iran Milad Delikhoun Abolfazl Shahrjerdi Ali Zand
			Italy Gianluca Gallo Alessandro Iodice Giuseppe Panagia
Kumite −60 kg details	Angelo Crescenzo  Italy	Naoto Sago  Japan	Darkhan Assadilov  Kazakhstan
			Abdessalam Ameknassi  Morocco
Kumite −67 kg details	Steven Da Costa  France	Vinícius Figueira  Brazil	Camilo Velozo  Chile
			Hamoun Derafshipour  Iran
Kumite −75 kg details	Bahman Askari  Iran	Luigi Busà  Italy	Ken Nishimura  Japan
			Rafael Aghayev  Azerbaijan
Kumite −84 kg details	Ivan Kvesić  Croatia	Valerii Chobotar  Ukraine	Zabihollah Pourshab  Iran
			Uğur Aktaş  Turkey
Kumite +84 kg details	Jonathan Horne  Germany	Sajjad Ganjzadeh  Iran	Babacar Seck  Spain
			Alparslan Yamanoğlu  Turkey
Team kumite details	Iran Saleh Abazari Ali Asghar Asiabari Bahman Askari Sajjad Ganjzadeh Saman Heidari Mehdi Khodabakhshi Zabihollah Pourshab	Turkey Uğur Aktaş Erman Eltemur Samed Gök Rıdvan Kaptan Ömer Abdurrahim Özer Burak Uygur Alparslan Yamanoğlu	Japan Daiki Ando Ryutaro Araga Hideyoshi Kagawa Yuta Mori Ken Nishimura Yusei Sakiyama Rikito Shimada
			Italy Ahmed El Sharaby Rabia Jendoubi Nello Maestri Luca Maresca Simone Marino Michele Martina Andrea Minardi

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata details	Sandra Sánchez  Spain	Kiyou Shimizu  Japan	Grace Lau  Hong Kong
			Viviana Bottaro  Italy
Team kata details	Japan Saori Ishibashi Mai Mugiyama Sae Taira	Spain Marta García Lidia Rodríguez Raquel Roy	Italy Sara Battaglia Terryana D'Onofrio Michela Pezzetti
			Turkey Dilara Bozan Rabia Küsmüş Gizem Sofuoğlu
Kumite −50 kg details	Miho Miyahara  Japan	Serap Özçelik  Turkey	Bettina Plank  Austria
			Sara Bahmanyar  Iran
Kumite −55 kg details	Dorota Banaszczyk  Poland	Jana Bitsch  Germany	Wen Tzu-yun  Chinese Taipei
			Ivet Goranova  Bulgaria
Kumite −61 kg details	Jovana Preković  Serbia	Yin Xiaoyan  China	Btissam Sadini  Morocco
			Giana Farouk  Egypt
Kumite −68 kg details	Irina Zaretska  Azerbaijan	Victoria Isaeva  Russia	Lamya Matoub  Algeria
			Miroslava Kopúňová  Slovakia
Kumite +68 kg details	Eleni Chatziliadou  Greece	Ayumi Uekusa  Japan	Shymaa Abou-El-Yazed  Egypt
			Hana Antunovic  Sweden
Team kumite details	France Léa Avazeri Andréa Brito Leïla Heurtault Laura Sivert	Japan Natsumi Kawamura Ayaka Saito Mayumi Someya Ayumi Uekusa	Spain Cristina Ferrer Laura Palacio María Torres Cristina Vizcaíno
			Egypt Aisha Abdelrahman Shymaa Abou-El-Yazed Feryal Abdelaziz Giana Farouk

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	4	4	2	10
2	Iran	2	1	4	7
3	France	2	0	0	2
4	Spain	1	3	2	6
5	Italy	1	1	5	7
6	Germany	1	1	0	2
7	Azerbaijan	1	0	1	2
8	Croatia	1	0	0	1
	Greece	1	0	0	1
	Poland	1	0	0	1
	Serbia	1	0	0	1
12	Turkey	0	2	4	6
13	Brazil	0	1	0	1
	China	0	1	0	1
	Russia	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
17	Egypt	0	0	3	3
18	Morocco	0	0	2	2
19	Algeria	0	0	1	1
	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Chile	0	0	1	1
	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 entries)		16	16	32	64

Participating nations

1117 athletes from 140 nations competed.^[2]

•  Albania (3)
•  Algeria (16)
•  Andorra (1)
•  Angola (3)
•  Argentina (6)
•  Armenia (8)
•  Australia (12)
•  Austria (13)
•  Azerbaijan (15)
•  Bangladesh (3)
•  Belarus (14)
•  Belgium (12)
•  Benin (1)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (14)
•  Botswana (2)
•  Brazil (16)
•  Bulgaria (7)
•  Burkina Faso (7)
•  Burundi (2)
•  Cambodia (2)
•  Cameroon (9)
•  Canada (14)
•  Cape Verde (7)
•  Cayman Islands (1)
•  Chad (4)
•  Chile (7)
•  China (12)
•  Chinese Taipei (14)
•  Colombia (16)
• Congo (7)
•  Costa Rica (12)
•  Croatia (16)
•  Cuba (3)
•  Curaçao (2)
•  Cyprus (4)
•  Czech Republic (10)
•  Democratic Republic of the Congo (8)
•  Denmark (13)
•  Djibouti (1)
•  Dominican Republic (14)
•  Ecuador (3)
•  Egypt (14)
•  El Salvador (4)
•  England (15)
•  Estonia (3)
•  Fiji (2)
•  Finland (11)
•  France (15)
•  Gabon (2)
•  Georgia (5)
•  Germany (14)
•  Ghana (5)
•  Greece (5)
•  Guatemala (10)
•  Hong Kong (13)
•  Hungary (11)
•  Iceland (5)
•  India (16)
•  Indonesia (12)
•  Iran (16)
•  Iraq (2)
•  Ireland (11)
•  Israel (7)
•  Italy (15)
•  Ivory Coast (11)
•  Jamaica (1)
•  Japan (16)
•  Jordan (10)
•  Kazakhstan (14)
•  Kosovo (13)^[3]
•  Kuwait (8)
•  Kyrgyzstan (11)
•  Latvia (12)
•  Lebanon (3)
•  Liechtenstein (1)
•  Lithuania (8)
•  Macau (5)
• Macedonia (13)
•  Madagascar (3)
•  Malaysia (7)
•  Malta (1)
•  Mexico (13)
•  Moldova (4)
•  Montenegro (11)
•  Morocco (11)
•  Mozambique (8)
•  Namibia (4)
•  Nepal (5)
•  Netherlands (10)
•  New Zealand (9)
•  Nicaragua (1)
•  Nigeria (3)
•  Northern Ireland (1)
•  Norway (7)
•  North Korea (2)
•  Oman (4)
•  Pakistan (5)
•  Palestine (6)
•  Panama (10)
•  Paraguay (3)
•  Peru (15)^[4]
•  Philippines (3)
•  Poland (8)
•  Portugal (12)
•  Puerto Rico (1)
•  Qatar (3)
• Refugee Karate Team (2)
•  Romania (15)
•  Russia (16)
•  San Marino (1)
•  Saudi Arabia (7)
•  Scotland (7)
•  Senegal (10)
•  Serbia (16)
•  Sierra Leone (1)
•  Singapore (1)
•  Slovakia (15)
•  Slovenia (7)
•  South Africa (9)
•  South Korea (9)
•  Spain (16)
•  Sri Lanka (3)
•  Sweden (11)
•   Switzerland (10)
•  Tajikistan (7)
•  Thailand (6)
•  Timor-Leste (2)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (4)
•  Tunisia (13)
•  Turkey (16)
•  Ukraine (14)
•  United Arab Emirates (5)
•  United States (14)
•  Uruguay (4)
•  Uzbekistan (10)
•  Venezuela (12)
•  Vietnam (3)
•  Wales (6)
•  Yemen (1)
•  Zimbabwe (1)