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2016 World Karate Championships

Host city	Linz, Austria
Dates	25–30 October
Main venue	TipsArena Linz
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The 2016 World Karate Championships were the 23rd edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Linz, Austria from October 25 to October 30, 2016.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Ryo Kiyuna  Japan	Damián Quintero  Spain	Ilja Smorguner  Germany
			Antonio Díaz  Venezuela
Team kata	Japan Arata Kinjo Ryo Kiyuna Takuya Uemura	France Lucas Jeannot Enzo Montarello Ahmed Zemouri	Italy Mattia Busato Alessandro Iodice Alfredo Tocco
			Spain José Carbonell Damián Quintero Francisco Salazar
Kumite −60 kg	Amir Mehdizadeh  Iran	Geoffrey Berens  Netherlands	Firdovsi Farzaliyev  Azerbaijan
			Sofiane Agoudjil  France
Kumite −67 kg	Jordan Thomas  England	Yves Martial Tadissi  Hungary	Steven Da Costa  France
			Andrés Madera  Venezuela
Kumite −75 kg	Rafael Aghayev  Azerbaijan	Omar Abdelrahman  Egypt	Ali Asghar Asiabari  Iran
			Luigi Busà  Italy
Kumite −84 kg	Ryutaro Araga  Japan	Aykhan Mamayev  Azerbaijan	Zabihollah Pourshab  Iran
			Kenji Grillon  France
Kumite +84 kg	Sajjad Ganjzadeh  Iran	Achraf Ouchen  Morocco	Anđelo Kvesić  Croatia
			Herolind Nishevci  Kosovo
Team kumite	Iran Saeid Ahmadi Bahman Askari Ali Fadakar Sajjad Ganjzadeh Mehdi Khodabakhshi Zabihollah Pourshab Iman Sanchouli	Japan Ryutaro Araga Rikiya Iimura Masaya Ishizuka Hideyoshi Kagawa Ken Nishimura Hiroto Shinohara Daisuke Watanabe	Germany Noah Bitsch Mehmet Bolat Nico Drexel Ricardo Giegler Jonathan Horne Heinrich Leistenschneider Robin Winters
			France Amin Bouazza Jessie Da Costa Logan Da Costa Steven Da Costa Marvin Garin Kenji Grillon Corentin Seguy

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Kiyou Shimizu  Japan	Sarah Sayed  Egypt	Viviana Bottaro  Italy
			Sandra Sánchez  Spain
Team kata	Japan Miku Morioka Hikaru Ono Kyosuke Yamashita	Spain Gema Morales Margarita Morata Paula Rodríguez	Italy Sara Battaglia Viviana Bottaro Michela Pezzetti
			Turkey Dilara Bozan Rabia Küsmüş Gizem Şahin
Kumite −50 kg	Alexandra Recchia  France	Miho Miyahara  Japan	Radwa Sayed  Egypt
			Bettina Plank  Austria
Kumite −55 kg	Emily Thouy  France	Valéria Kumizaki  Brazil	Wen Tzu-yun  Chinese Taipei
			Sara Yamada  Japan
Kumite −61 kg	Giana Farouk  Egypt	Lucie Ignace  France	Anita Serogina  Ukraine
			Ingrida Suchánková  Slovakia
Kumite −68 kg	Alisa Buchinger  Austria	Katrine Pedersen  Denmark	Ivona Ćavar  Bosnia and Herzegovina
			Marina Raković  Montenegro
Kumite +68 kg	Ayumi Uekusa  Japan	Eleni Chatziliadou  Greece	Dominika Tatárová  Slovakia
			Hamideh Abbasali  Iran
Team kumite	France Alizée Agier Leïla Heurtault Lucie Ignace Alexandra Recchia	Spain Cristina Ferrer Laura Palacio Rocío Sánchez Cristina Vizcaíno	United States Ashley Davis Cheryl Murphy Brandi Robinson Maya Wasowicz
			Egypt Giana Farouk Yassmin Hamdy Randa Rousfelt Nada Sayed

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	6	2	1	9
2	France	3	2	4	9
3	Iran	3	0	3	6
4	Egypt	1	2	2	5
5	Azerbaijan	1	1	1	3
6	Austria	1	0	1	2
7	England	1	0	0	1
8	Spain	0	3	2	5
9	Brazil	0	1	0	1
	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Greece	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Morocco	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
15	Italy	0	0	4	4
16	Germany	0	0	2	2
	Slovakia	0	0	2	2
	Venezuela	0	0	2	2
19	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	1	1
	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1
	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Kosovo	0	0	1	1
	Montenegro	0	0	1	1
	Turkey	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 entries)		16	16	32	64

Participating nations

1024 athletes from 118 nations competed.

•  Afghanistan (2)
•  Albania (3)
•  Algeria (14)
•  Andorra (1)
•  Argentina (5)
•  Armenia (6)
•  Australia (11)
•  Austria (15)
•  Azerbaijan (14)
•  Bangladesh (7)
•  Belarus (7)
•  Belgium (9)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (14)
•  Botswana (4)
•  Brazil (16)
•  Bulgaria (8)
•  Cameroon (10)
•  Canada (15)
•  Chad (12)
•  Chile (13)
•  China (13)
•  Chinese Taipei (11)
•  Colombia (6)
•  Congo (6)
•  Costa Rica (3)
•  Croatia (16)
•  Curaçao (2)
•  Cyprus (3)
•  Czech Republic (7)
•  Denmark (14)
•  Dominican Republic (14)
•  Ecuador (10)
•  Egypt (16)
•  England (13)
•  Estonia (4)
•  Fiji (2)
•  Finland (8)
•  France (16)
•  Georgia (7)
•  Germany (14)
•  Ghana (11)
•  Greece (11)
•  Guatemala (7)
•  Hong Kong (14)
•  Hungary (12)
•  Iceland (5)
•  India (16)
•  Indonesia (13)
•  Iran (16)
•  Iraq (8)
•  Ireland (12)
•  Israel (9)
•  Italy (16)
•  Ivory Coast (1)
•  Japan (16)
•  Jordan (4)
•  Kazakhstan (13)
•  Kenya (15)
•  Kosovo (8)
•  Kyrgyzstan (7)
•  Latvia (3)
•  Lebanon (2)
•  Libya (4)
•  Luxembourg (2)
•  Macau (9)
•  Macedonia (12)
•  Madagascar (2)
•  Malaysia (7)
•  Mali (3)
•  Malta (1)
•  Mexico (14)
•  Moldova (2)
•  Montenegro (12)
•  Morocco (10)
•  Mozambique (8)
•  Nepal (1)
•  Netherlands (10)
•  New Zealand (9)
•  Nicaragua (4)
•  Norway (4)
•  Oman (2)
•  Pakistan (1)
•  Palestine (2)
•  Papua New Guinea (4)
•  Paraguay (3)
•  Peru (13)
•  Poland (15)
•  Portugal (15)
•  Puerto Rico (1)
•  Qatar (4)
•  Romania (15)
•  Russia (16)
•  Rwanda (2)
•  San Marino (1)
•  Saudi Arabia (8)
•  Scotland (1)
•  Senegal (9)
•  Serbia (16)
•  Slovakia (15)
•  Slovenia (13)
•  South Africa (13)
•  South Korea (10)
•  Spain (16)
•  Sri Lanka (5)
•  Sweden (2)
•  Switzerland (11)
•  Thailand (3)
•  Tunisia (13)
•  Turkey (16)
•  Ukraine (15)
•  United Arab Emirates (6)
•  United States (16)
•  Uruguay (2)
•  Uzbekistan (10)
•  Venezuela (12)
•  Vietnam (7)
•  Wales (6)
•  Yemen (1)

References

1. "23rd World Senior Karate Championships – Participation List". World Karate Federation. Retrieved 27 October 2016.

External links

• World Karate Federation
• Official website
• Results

• 2016 in karate
• 2016 in Austrian sport
• World Karate Championships
• International sports competitions hosted by Austria
• Karate competitions in Austria
• Sports competitions in Linz
• October 2016 sports events in Europe