Karate at the 2022 World Games

Karate at the 2022 World Games
Venue	Birmingham Southern College
Dates	8–9 July
No. of events	12
Competitors	94 from 41 nations

The karate competition at the 2022 World Games took place in July 2022,^[1] in Birmingham in United States, at the Birmingham Southern College. Originally scheduled to take place in July 2021, the Games were rescheduled for 8 and 9 July 2022 as a result of the 2020 Summer Olympics postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[2]

Qualification

Main article: Karate at the 2022 World Games – Qualification

Participating nations

•  Algeria (1)
•  Australia (1)
•  Austria (1)
•  Azerbaijan (3)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Brazil (3)
•  Bulgaria (1)
•  Canada (3)
•  Chinese Taipei (2)
•  Chile (2)
•  Croatia (2)
•  Czech Republic (1)
•  Egypt (7)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (2)
•  Germany (3)
•  Greece (2)
•  Hong Kong (1)
•  Hungary (2)
•  Italy (5)
•  Japan (4)
•  Kazakhstan (3)
•  Kuwait (1)
•  Latvia (1)
•  Luxembourg (1)
•  Morocco (2)
•  Netherlands (2)
•  New Zealand (1)
•  North Macedonia (1)
•  Panama (1)
•  Peru (1)
•  Philippines (1)
•  Slovakia (1)
•  Spain (5)
•  Sweden (1)
•  Switzerland (2)
•  Tunisia (1)
•  Ukraine (6)
•  United States (12)
•  Uzbekistan (1)
•  Venezuela (2)

Medal table

  *   Host nation (United States)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Spain	2	2	0	4
2	Egypt	2	1	1	4
3	Ukraine	2	1	0	3
4	Japan	1	1	1	3
5	Brazil	1	1	0	2
6	Italy	1	0	1	2
7	Algeria	1	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan	1	0	0	1
	Philippines	1	0	0	1
10	Austria	0	1	0	1
	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Morocco	0	1	0	1
	Peru	0	1	0	1
	Venezuela	0	1	0	1
16	United States*	0	0	3	3
17	France	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		12	12	12	36

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kata details	Kazumasa Moto  Japan	Damián Quintero  Spain	Gakuji Tozaki  United States
Kumite 60 kg details	Ayoub Anis Helassa  Algeria	Douglas Brose  Brazil	Angelo Crescenzo  Italy
Kumite 67 kg details	Vinícius Figueira  Brazil	Yves Martial Tadissi  Hungary	Dionysios Xenos  Greece
Kumite 75 kg details	Abdalla Abdelaziz  Egypt	Stanislav Horuna  Ukraine	Dastonbek Otabolaev  Uzbekistan
Kumite 84 kg details	Youssef Badawy  Egypt	Nabil Ech-chaabi  Morocco	Kamran Madani  United States
Kumite +84 kg details	Babacar Seck  Spain	Anđelo Kvesić  Croatia	Taha Tarek  Egypt

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kata details	Sandra Sánchez  Spain	Hikaru Ono  Japan	Grace Lau  Hong Kong
Kumite 50 kg details	Junna Tsukii  Philippines	Yorgelis Salazar  Venezuela	Miho Miyahara  Japan
Kumite 55 kg details	Anzhelika Terliuga  Ukraine	Ahlam Youssef  Egypt	Trinity Allen  United States
Kumite 61 kg details	Anita Serogina  Ukraine	Alexandra Grande  Peru	Ingrida Suchánková  Slovakia
Kumite 68 kg details	Silvia Semeraro  Italy	Alisa Buchinger  Austria	Alizée Agier  France
Kumite +68 kg details	Sofya Berultseva  Kazakhstan	María Torres  Spain	Chehinez Jemi  Tunisia

References

1. "The World Games 2022 Sports programme". Retrieved 2020-08-29.
2. "2021 WORLD GAMES POSTPONED TO 2022 TO AVOID TOKYO OLYMPIC CLASH". reuters.com. Retrieved 2020-08-29.

External links

• The World Games 2022
• World Karate Federation
• Results book Archived 2022-07-10 at the Wayback Machine