| 2018 World University Karate Championships | |
| Host City: |  Kobe, Japan |
| Dates: | 19–22 July |
| Previous: | 2016 |
| Next: | 2020 |
| Organiser: | FISU |
| Athletes: | 229 |
| Nations: | 31 |
The 2018 World University Karate Championships was the 11th edition of World University Karate Championships and took place in Kobe, Japan between July 19 and July 22, 2018.[1]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual kata | Yuhei Horiba | Abolfazl Shahrjerdi | Emre Vefa Göktaş |
| Mattia Busato | |||
| Team kata | Kaito Fujita Takaya Fukuda Ryuji Moto | Vincent Forster Lukas Buchinger Christoph Buchinger | Maksymilian Szczypkowski Aleksander Adamow Jan Sieradzki |
| Abolfazl Shahrjerdi Milad Delikhoun | |||
| Kumite −60 kg | Eray Samdan | Saud Albasher | Ali Meskini |
| Kajith Kanagasingam | |||
| Kumite −67 kg | Francesco D'Onofrio | Soichiro Nakano | Mehdi Rahimi Nejad |
| Raul Cuerva Mora | |||
| Kumite −75 kg | Yusei Sakiyama | Lou Lebrun | Ammed Ezzat Momy ElSharaby |
| Luca Rettenbacher | |||
| Kumite −84 kg | Kamran Madani | Durham Mitchell | Faraj Alnashri |
| Alvin Karaqi | |||
| Kumite +84 kg | Saleh Abazari | Daiki Ando | Dnylson Jacquet |
| Somanroy M Arulveeran | |||
| Team kumite | Rikito Shimada Daiki Ando Hyoki Tachibana Yusei Sakiyama Yugo Kozaki Koki Kamaguchi | Younes Noroozi Mahdi Ghararizadeh Mahani Mohamadmahdi Ghaheri Sharghi Milad Bahmani Mehdi Rahimi Nejad Dahka | Saud Albasher Abdulaziz Alhakami Faraj Alnashri Bader Alotaibi Raef Al-Turkistani Sultan Alzahrani |
| Faadel Boussag Dnylson Jacquet Kajith Kanagasingam Thanh-Liêm Lê Lou Lebrun Nicolas Nirde Alexis Raspilair |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual kata | Natsuki Shimizu | Terryana D'Onofrio | Marta García Lozano |
| Laetitia Feracci | |||
| Team kata | Natsuki Shimizu Azuki Ogawa Yui Umekage | Marta García Lozano Jessica Moreno Wilkinson Marta Vega Letamendi | Simona Forstová Barbora Kočtářová Sabina Forstová |
| Qiao Yan Jialing Li | |||
| Kumite −50 kg | Miho Miyahara | Gu Shiau-shuang | Faezeh Chizari |
| Gema Morales Ozuna | |||
| Kumite −55 kg | Katayama Haname | Avishan Bagheri | Sara Heurtault |
| Jennifer Warling | |||
| Kumite −61 kg | Yuki Kujuro | Melika Ahadi | Coral Herrador Sánchez |
| Wei-Ning Hsu | |||
| Kumite −68 kg | Kanako Oryu | Laura Sivert | Maria Isabel Nieto Mejias |
| Behnoosh Najafi Ghaghelestani | |||
| Kumite +68 kg | Rosa Marie Liebold | Tzu-Hsuan Wen | Lora Ziller |
| Ayaka Saito | |||
| Team kumite | Andrea Brito Sara Heurtault Zoulikha Meghiche Laura Sivert | Carlota Fernández Osorio Coral Herrador Sánchez Gema Morales Ozuna María Isabel Nieto Mejías | Lara Hinterseer Lora Ziller Mariam Elaswad Kristin Isabelle Wieninger |
| Kanako Oryu Yuki Kujuro Haname Katayama |
| 2018 World University Karate Championships[2] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | |
| 1 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 14 | ||
| 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | ||
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | ||
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
| 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 8 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | ||
| 9 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
| 10 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||
| 11 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Total | 16 | 16 | 32 | 64 | ||