Karate at the European Games

Karate has been a European Games sport since the inaugural edition.

Editions

Games	Year	Events	Best Nation
I	2015	12	Azerbaijan
II	2019	12	Spain
III	2023	12	Ukraine

Venues

Games	Venue	Other sports hosted at venue	Capacity	Ref.
2015 Baku	Crystal Hall	Fencing, taekwondo	2,000	[1]
2019 Minsk	Chizhovka-Arena	Judo	8,800
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Dębowiec Sports Arena (Bielsko-Biała)	–	4,500
2027 Istanbul

Events

Event	15	19	23	Years
Men's individual kata	X	X	X	3
Men's kumite 60 kg	X	X	X	3
Men's kumite 67 kg	X	X	X	3
Men's kumite 75 kg	X	X	X	3
Men's kumite 84 kg	X	X	X	3
Men's kumite +84 kg	X	X	X	3
Women's individual kata	X	X	X	3
Women's kumite 50 kg	X	X	X	3
Women's kumite 55 kg	X	X	X	3
Women's kumite 61 kg	X	X	X	3
Women's kumite 68 kg	X	X	X	3
Women's kumite +68 kg	X	X	X	3

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Azerbaijan (AZE)	7	3	4	14
2	Spain (ESP)	7	0	1	8
3	Turkey (TUR)	4	7	10	21
4	Ukraine (UKR)	4	2	3	9
5	Croatia (CRO)	3	2	1	6
6	Italy (ITA)	2	7	7	16
7	France (FRA)	2	3	4	9
8	Austria (AUT)	2	2	0	4
9	Germany (GER)	2	1	2	5
10	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	0	2
11	Albania (ALB)	1	0	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
13	Greece (GRE)	0	3	3	6
14	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	2	3
15	Montenegro (MNE)	0	1	1	2
16	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	1	0	1
18	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	2	2
	Georgia (GEO)	0	0	2	2
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	2	2
	Luxembourg (LUX)	0	0	2	2
	North Macedonia (MKD)	0	0	2	2
	Poland (POL)	0	0	2	2
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	2	2
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	2	2
26	Armenia (ARM)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Cyprus (CYP)	0	0	1	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (31 entries)		36	35	60	131

Medalists

Men's

Individual kata

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku details	Damián Quintero  Spain	Mattia Busato  Italy	Mehmet Yakan  Turkey
2019 Minsk details	Damián Quintero  Spain	Ali Sofuoğlu  Turkey	Roman Heydarov  Azerbaijan
			Mattia Busato  Italy
2023 Kraków-Małopolska details	Damián Quintero  Spain	Ali Sofuoğlu  Turkey	Yuki Ujihara  Switzerland
			Mattia Busato  Italy

Kumite 60 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku details	Firdovsi Farzaliyev  Azerbaijan	Luca Maresca  Italy	Emil Pavlov  Macedonia
2019 Minsk details	Kalvis Kalniņš  Latvia	Firdovsi Farzaliyev  Azerbaijan	Angelo Crescenzo  Italy
			Evgeny Plakhutin  Russia
2023 Kraków-Małopolska details	Eray Şamdan  Turkey	Christos-Stefanos Xenos  Greece	Angelo Crescenzo  Italy
			Nikita Filipov  Ukraine

Kumite 67 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku details	Burak Uygur  Turkey	Steven Da Costa  France	Niyazi Aliyev  Azerbaijan
2019 Minsk details	Luca Maresca  Italy	Mario Hodžić  Montenegro	Artsiom Krautsou  Belarus
			Yves Martial Tadissi  Hungary
2023 Kraków-Małopolska details	Tural Aghalarzade  Azerbaijan	Dionysios Xenos  Greece	Ştefan Comănescu  Romania
			Miłosz Sabiecki  Poland

Kumite 75 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku details	Rafael Aghayev  Azerbaijan	Luigi Busà  Italy	Erman Eltemur  Turkey
2019 Minsk details	Stanislav Horuna  Ukraine	Rafael Aghayev  Azerbaijan	Pavel Artamonov  Estonia
			Gábor Hárspataki  Hungary
2023 Kraków-Małopolska details	Andrii Zaplitnyi  Ukraine	Daniele De Vivo  Italy	Erman Eltemur  Turkey
			Quentin Mahauden  Belgium

Kumite 84 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku details	Aykhan Mamayev  Azerbaijan	Michail Georgos Tzanos  Greece	Uğur Aktaş  Turkey
2019 Minsk details	Ivan Kvesić  Croatia	Uğur Aktaş  Turkey	Michele Martina  Italy
			Valerii Chobotar  Ukraine
2023 Kraków-Małopolska details	Alvin Karaqi  Albania	Brian Timmermans  Netherlands	Michał Bąbos  Poland
			Michele Martina  Italy

Kumite +84 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku details	Enes Erkan  Turkey	Jonathan Horne  Germany	Martin Nestorovski  Macedonia
2019 Minsk details	Asiman Gurbanli  Azerbaijan	Anđelo Kvesić  Croatia	Gogita Arkania  Georgia
			Jonathan Horne  Germany
2023 Kraków-Małopolska details	Anđelo Kvesić  Croatia	Not awarded[a]	Asiman Gurbanli  Azerbaijan
			Gogita Arkania  Georgia

• ^Note Fatih Şen of Turkey was disqualified due to unsportsmanlike behavior by shikkaku.^[2][3]

Women's

Individual kata

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku details	Sandra Sánchez  Spain	Sandy Scordo  France	Dilara Bozan  Turkey
2019 Minsk details	Sandra Sánchez  Spain	Viviana Bottaro  Italy	Patrícia Esparteiro  Portugal
			Dilara Bozan  Turkey
2023 Kraków-Małopolska details	Paola García  Spain	Helvétia Taily  France	Georgina Xenou  Greece
			Ana Cruz  Portugal

Kumite 50 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku details	Serap Özçelik  Turkey	Bettina Plank  Austria	Alexandra Recchia  France
2019 Minsk details	Bettina Plank  Austria	Serap Özçelik  Turkey	Mariya Koulinkovitch  Belarus
			Sophia Bouderbane  France
2023 Kraków-Małopolska details	Bettina Plank  Austria	Erminia Perfetto  Italy	Irene Kontou  Cyprus
			Serap Özçelik Arapoğlu  Turkey

Kumite 55 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku details	Emily Thouy  France	Jelena Kovačević  Croatia	Ilaha Qasimova  Azerbaijan
2019 Minsk details	Ivet Goranova  Bulgaria	Anzhelika Terliuga  Ukraine	Jana Bitsch  Germany
			Jennifer Warling  Luxembourg
2023 Kraków-Małopolska details	Anzhelika Terliuga  Ukraine	Ivet Goranova  Bulgaria	Jennifer Warling  Luxembourg
			Tuba Yakan  Turkey

Kumite 61 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku details	Lucie Ignace  France	Merve Çoban  Turkey	Ana Lenard  Croatia
2019 Minsk details	Anita Serogina  Ukraine	Tjaša Ristić  Slovenia	Gwendoline Philippe  France
			Merve Çoban  Turkey
2023 Kraków-Małopolska details	Reem Khamis  Germany	Anita Serogina  Ukraine	Alessandra Mangiacapra  Italy
			Gülbahar Gözütok  Turkey

Kumite 68 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku details	Irina Zaretska  Azerbaijan	Alisa Buchinger  Austria	Marina Raković  Montenegro
2019 Minsk details	Silvia Semeraro  Italy	Irina Zaretska  Azerbaijan	Elena Quirici  Switzerland
			Halyna Melnyk  Ukraine
2023 Kraków-Małopolska details	Irina Zaretska  Azerbaijan	Elena Quirici  Switzerland	Anita Makyan  Armenia
			Alizée Agier  France

Kumite +68 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku details	Maša Martinović  Croatia	Meltem Hocaoğlu  Turkey	Ivanna Zaytseva  Russia
2019 Minsk details	Laura Palacio  Spain	Meltem Hocaoğlu  Turkey	Titta Keinänen  Finland
			Eleni Chatziliadou  Greece
2023 Kraków-Małopolska details	Johanna Kneer  Germany	Clio Ferracuti  Italy	Kyriaki Kydonaki  Greece
			María Torres  Spain

Participating nations

Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Monaco and San Marino have yet to qualify for the competition in karate.

Nation	15	19	23	Years
Andorra (AND)		1		1
Albania (ALB)	1		1	2
Armenia (ARM)			1	1
Austria (AUT)	2	2	1	3
Azerbaijan (AZE)	12	7	8	3
Belarus (BLR)	1	12		2
Belgium (BEL)	1	1	1	3
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)			1	1
Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	1	3
Croatia (CRO)	6	2	3	3
Cyprus (CYP)	1		1	2
Czech Republic (CZE)	1	1	1	3
Denmark (DEN)	1	1	1	3
Estonia (EST)		1		1
Finland (FIN)	2	1	1	3
France (FRA)	10	7	3	3
Georgia (GEO)	1	1	2	3
Germany (GER)	5	6	5	3
Great Britain (GBR)		2	1	2
Greece (GRE)	3	1	6	3
Hungary (HUN)	1	2	2	3
Iceland (ISL)	1			1
Ireland (IRL)	1			1
Israel (ISR)			1	1
Italy (ITA)	4	6	9	3
Kosovo (KOS)	1	2		2
Latvia (LAT)	1	1		2
Luxembourg (LUX)	1	1	1	3
Montenegro (MNE)	1	2	1	3
Netherlands (NED)	1	1	2	3
North Macedonia (MKD)	2	1	1	3
Norway (NOR)	1	1		2
Poland (POL)	1	1	12	3
Portugal (POR)	1	1	2	3
Romania (ROM)	1	1	1	3
Russia (RUS)	2	1		2
Serbia (SRB)	3	3		2
Slovakia (SVK)	1	1	1	3
Slovenia (SLO)	1	1		2
Spain (ESP)	7	4	5	3
Sweden (SWE)	1	1	1	3
Switzerland (SUI)	1	1	3	3
Turkey (TUR)	11	11	9	3
Ukraine (UKR)	3	6	7	3
Total countries	38	37	33	44
Total athletes	96	96	96
Year	15	19	23