2014 World Karate Championships

2014 World Karate Championships

Host city	Bremen, Germany
Dates	5–9 November
Main venue	ÖVB Arena
Website	http://karate2014.de/

The 2014 World Karate Championships were the 22nd edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Bremen, Germany from November 5 to November 9, 2014.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Ryo Kiyuna  Japan	Ilja Smorguner  Germany	Vu Duc Minh Dack  France
			Antonio Díaz  Venezuela
Team kata	Spain José Carbonell Damián Quintero Francisco Salazar	Egypt Ibrahim Magdy Ahmed Ashraf Mohamed Hamdy	France Vu Duc Minh Dack William Geoffray Rémi Martorana
			Malaysia Thomson Hoe Emmanuel Leong Leong Tze Wai
Kumite −60 kg	Douglas Brose  Brazil	Geoffrey Berens  Netherlands	Evgeny Plakhutin  Russia
			Amir Mehdizadeh  Iran
Kumite −67 kg	William Rollé  France	Magdy Mamdouh  Egypt	Vinícius Figueira  Brazil
			Kujtim Bajrami  Switzerland
Kumite −75 kg	Ryuichi Tani  Japan	Luigi Busà  Italy	Stanislav Horuna  Ukraine
			Noah Bitsch  Germany
Kumite −84 kg	Gogita Arkania  Georgia	Ryutaro Araga  Japan	Gökhan Gündüz  Turkey
			Mohamed El-Kotby  Egypt
Kumite +84 kg	Enes Erkan  Turkey	Sajjad Ganjzadeh  Iran	Admir Zukan  Bosnia and Herzegovina
			Jagoba Vizuete  Spain
Team kumite	Iran Saeid Ahmadi Bahman Askari Sajjad Ganjzadeh Ebrahim Hassanbeigi Saman Heidari Zabihollah Pourshab Iman Sanchouli	Germany Andreas Bachmann Noah Bitsch Mehmet Bolat Oliver Henning Jonathan Horne Heinrich Leistenschneider Nika Tsurtsumia	Turkey Uğur Aktaş Erman Eltemur Enes Erkan Gökhan Gündüz Rıdvan Kaptan Yaser Şahintekin Serkan Yağcı
			Japan Ryutaro Araga Rikiya Iimura Masaya Ishizuka Hideyoshi Kagawa Hiroto Shinohara Ryuichi Tani Daisuke Watanabe

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Kiyou Shimizu  Japan	Sandy Scordo  France	Yaiza Martín  Spain
			Jasmin Bleul  Germany
Team kata	Germany Jasmin Bleul Christine Heinrich Sophie Wachter	Japan Suzuka Kashioka Yoko Kimura Miku Morioka	Italy Sara Battaglia Viviana Bottaro Michela Pezzetti
			Iran Mahsa Afsaneh Najmeh Ghazizadeh Elnaz Taghipour
Kumite −50 kg	Serap Özçelik  Turkey	Duygu Buğur  Germany	Rocío Sánchez  Spain
			Alexandra Recchia  France
Kumite −55 kg	Sara Cardin  Italy	Emily Thouy  France	Miki Kobayashi  Japan
			Jana Bitsch  Germany
Kumite −61 kg	Giana Farouk  Egypt	Syakilla Salni  Malaysia	Laura Pasqua  Italy
			Mayumi Someya  Japan
Kumite −68 kg	Alizée Agier  France	Gitte Brunstad  Norway	Irina Zaretska  Ukraine
			Alisa Buchinger  Austria
Kumite +68 kg	Shymaa Abou-El-Yazed  Egypt	Hamideh Abbasali  Iran	Ayumi Uekusa  Japan
			Laura Palacio  Spain
Team kumite	Egypt Shymaa Abou-El-Yazed Yassmin Hamdy Giana Farouk Fatma Al-Zahraa	France Nadège Aït-Ibrahim Leïla Heurtault Lucie Ignace Alexandra Recchia	Japan Natsumi Kawamura Miki Kobayashi Mayumi Someya Ayumi Uekusa
			Turkey Buse Avcu Merve Çoban Meltem Hocaoğlu Serap Özçelik

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	3	2	5	10
2	Egypt	3	2	1	6
3	France	2	3	3	8
4	Turkey	2	0	3	5
5	Germany	1	3	3	7
6	Iran	1	2	2	5
7	Italy	1	1	2	4
8	Spain	1	0	4	5
9	Brazil	1	0	1	2
10	Georgia	1	0	0	1
11	Malaysia	0	1	1	2
12	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
	Norway	0	1	0	1
14	Ukraine	0	0	2	2
15	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	1	1
	Russia	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		16	16	32	64

Participating nations

887 athletes from 116 nations competed.^[1]

•  Albania (4)
•  Algeria (10)
•  Argentina (5)
•  Armenia (2)
•  Australia (7)
•  Austria (10)
•  Azerbaijan (12)
•  Bahrain (2)
•  Belarus (12)
•  Belgium (11)
•  Belize (1)
•  Bolivia (1)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (12)
•  Botswana (6)
•  Brazil (15)
•  Bulgaria (7)
•  Canada (14)
•  Chad (4)
•  Chile (13)
•  China (11)
•  Chinese Taipei (4)
•  Colombia (11)
•  Congo (6)
•  Croatia (16)
•  Curaçao (4)
•  Cyprus (2)
•  Czech Republic (10)
•  Denmark (12)
•  Dominican Republic (12)
•  Ecuador (6)
•  Egypt (16)
•  El Salvador (2)
•  England (14)
•  Estonia (4)
•  Fiji (2)
•  Finland (10)
•  France (16)
•  Gabon (6)
•  Georgia (5)
•  Germany (15)
•  Greece (12)
•  Guatemala (6)
•  Guinea (2)
•  Hong Kong (13)
•  Hungary (14)
•  Iceland (4)
•  India (14)
•  Indonesia (5)
•  Iran (16)
•  Iraq (7)
•  Ireland (10)
•  Israel (7)
•  Italy (13)
•  Japan (16)
•  Jordan (3)
•  Kazakhstan (13)
•  Kuwait (7)
•  Latvia (7)
•  Lebanon (2)
•  Luxembourg (7)
•  Macau (8)
•  Macedonia (9)
•  Madagascar (2)
•  Malaysia (9)
•  Mali (2)
•  Mexico (9)
•  Moldova (2)
•  Montenegro (8)
•  Morocco (8)
•  Myanmar (1)
•  Netherlands (7)
•  Nepal (8)
•  New Zealand (9)
•  Nicaragua (2)
•  Northern Ireland (1)
•  Norway (4)
•  Pakistan (1)
•  Palestine (1)
•  Paraguay (3)
•  Peru (11)
•  Philippines (4)
•  Poland (13)
•  Portugal (6)
•  Qatar (4)
•  Romania (14)
•  Russia (15)
•  Rwanda (3)
•  San Marino (2)
•  Saudi Arabia (7)
•  Scotland (5)
•  Senegal (1)
•  Serbia (14)
•  Singapore (1)
•  Slovakia (11)
•  Slovenia (11)
•  South Africa (13)
•  South Korea (10)
•  Spain (16)
•  Suriname (1)
•  Sweden (4)
•  Switzerland (9)
•  Tajikistan (1)
•  Thailand (1)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (1)
•  Tunisia (12)
•  Turkey (16)
•  Ukraine (12)
•  United Arab Emirates (7)
•  United States (16)
•  Uruguay (1)
•  Uzbekistan (11)
•  Venezuela (15)
•  Vietnam (2)
•  Wales (11)
•  Yemen (1)
•  Zimbabwe (1)

References

1. "22nd World Senior Karate Championships – Participation List". World Karate Federation. Retrieved 5 November 2014.

External links

• World Karate Federation
• Official Website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2014-10-25)
• Results