2018 World Karate Championships Explained

2018 World Karate Championships
Host City:	Madrid, Spain
Dates:	6–11 November
Stadium:	WiZink Center
Previous:	2016

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]

Medalists

Men

Individual kata

Team kata	Arata Kinjo Ryo Kiyuna Takuya Uemura	José Carbonell Sergio Galán Francisco Salazar	Milad Delikhoun Abolfazl Shahrjerdi Ali Zand
			Gianluca Gallo Alessandro Iodice Giuseppe Panagia
Kumite −60 kg

Kumite −67 kg

Kumite −75 kg

Kumite −84 kg

Kumite +84 kg

Team kumite	Saleh Abazari Ali Asghar Asiabari Bahman Askari Sajjad Ganjzadeh Saman Heidari Mehdi Khodabakhshi Zabihollah Poursheib	Uğur Aktaş Erman Eltemur Samed Gök Rıdvan Kaptan Ömer Abdurrahim Özer Burak Uygur Alparslan Yamanoğlu	Daiki Ando Ryutaro Araga Hideyoshi Kagawa Yuta Mori Ken Nishimura Yusei Sakiyama Rikito Shimada
			Ahmed El Sharaby Rabia Jendoubi Nello Maestri Luca Maresca Simone Marino Michele Martina Andrea Minardi

Women

Individual kata

Team kata	Saori Ishibashi Mai Mugiyama Sae Taira	Marta García Lidia Rodríguez Raquel Roy	Sara Battaglia Terryana D'Onofrio Michela Pezzetti
			Dilara Bozan Rabia Küsmüş Gizem Sofuoğlu
Kumite −50 kg

Kumite −55 kg

Kumite −61 kg

Kumite −68 kg

Kumite +68 kg

Team kumite	Léa Avazeri Andréa Brito Leïla Heurtault Laura Sivert	Natsumi Kawamura Ayaka Saito Mayumi Someya Ayumi Uekusa	Cristina Ferrer Laura Palacio María Torres Cristina Vizcaíno
			Aisha Abdelrahman Shymaa Abou-El-Yazed Feryal Abdelaziz Giana Farouk

Participating nations

1117 athletes from 140 nations competed.^[2]

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Refugee Karate Team (2)
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External links

Notes and References

News: 11 November 2020. Remembering the 2018 Karate World Championships. World Karate Federation. live. 19 November 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201113062118/https://www.wkf.net/news-center-new/karate-world-championships/1424. 13 November 2020.
Web site: 24th World Senior Karate Championships – Participation List. World Karate Federation. 6 November 2018.
Kosovo competed under the WKF flag
Peru competed under the WKF flag