# 2012 Asian Karate Championships

The 2012 Asian Karate Championships are the 11th edition of the Senior Asian Karate Championships and 12th edition of the Cadet, Junior & U21 Asian Karate Championships and were held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan from July 14 to July 17, 2012.

## Medalists
### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual kata | Leong Tze Wai Malaysia | Itaru Oki Japan | Chris Cheng Hong Kong |
| Individual kata | Leong Tze Wai Malaysia | Itaru Oki Japan | Kuok Kin Hang Macau |
| Team kata | Iran Ahad Shahin Armin Roshani Farzad Mohammadkhanloo | Indonesia Aswar Fidelys Lolobua Faisal Zainuddin | South Korea Ahn Jun-seob Choi Jae-moo Park Hee-jun |
| Team kata | Iran Ahad Shahin Armin Roshani Farzad Mohammadkhanloo | Indonesia Aswar Fidelys Lolobua Faisal Zainuddin | Malaysia Kam Kah Sam Leong Tze Wai Lim Chee Wei |
| Kumite −55 kg | Sun Jingchao China | Loganeshaa Rao Ramarow Malaysia | Imam Tauhid Ragananda Indonesia |
| Kumite −55 kg | Sun Jingchao China | Loganeshaa Rao Ramarow Malaysia | Gu Ju-yeong South Korea |
| Kumite −60 kg | Lee Ji-hwan South Korea | Darkhan Assadilov Kazakhstan | Shintaro Araga Japan |
| Kumite −60 kg | Lee Ji-hwan South Korea | Darkhan Assadilov Kazakhstan | Saeid Alipour Iran |
| Kumite −67 kg | Rinat Sagandykov Kazakhstan | Mukhammadzaid Iminov Uzbekistan | Saadi Abbas Jalbani Pakistan |
| Kumite −67 kg | Rinat Sagandykov Kazakhstan | Mukhammadzaid Iminov Uzbekistan | Kim Do-won South Korea |
| Kumite −75 kg | Ko Matsuhisa Japan | Mohammad Al-Rifi Jordan | Yermek Ainazarov Kazakhstan |
| Kumite −75 kg | Ko Matsuhisa Japan | Mohammad Al-Rifi Jordan | Ahmad Al-Mesfer Kuwait |
| Kumite −84 kg | Ali Fadakar Iran | Rafat Al-Sheikh Ali Syria | Mutasembellah Khair Jordan |
| Kumite −84 kg | Ali Fadakar Iran | Rafat Al-Sheikh Ali Syria | Jang Min-soo South Korea |
| Kumite +84 kg | Zabihollah Pourshab Iran | Khalid Khalidov Kazakhstan | Rustam Ashurov Uzbekistan |
| Kumite +84 kg | Zabihollah Pourshab Iran | Khalid Khalidov Kazakhstan | Hideyoshi Kagawa Japan |
| Team kumite | Japan Shintaro Araga Yoshihito Ide Rikiya Iimura Hideyoshi Kagawa Ko Matsuhisa Hiroto Shinohara Daisuke Watanabe | Malaysia Shaharudin Jamaludin Teagarajan Kunasakaran Kunasilan Lakanathan Sharmendran Raghonathan Loganeshaa Rao Ramarow Senthil Kumaran Selvarajoo Moenraj Sugumaran | Iran Ebrahim Hassanbeigi Nasser Najafi Saeid Ahmadi Saeid Farrokhi Sajjad Ganjzadeh Saman Heidari Zabihollah Pourshab |
| Team kumite | Japan Shintaro Araga Yoshihito Ide Rikiya Iimura Hideyoshi Kagawa Ko Matsuhisa Hiroto Shinohara Daisuke Watanabe | Malaysia Shaharudin Jamaludin Teagarajan Kunasakaran Kunasilan Lakanathan Sharmendran Raghonathan Loganeshaa Rao Ramarow Senthil Kumaran Selvarajoo Moenraj Sugumaran | China Cheng Fei Cui Wenju Dong Mingming Li Haojie Liu Zhe Peng Hui Zhang Yahao |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual kata | Rika Usami Japan | Nguyễn Hoàng Ngân Vietnam | Choi Ji-hye South Korea |
| Individual kata | Rika Usami Japan | Nguyễn Hoàng Ngân Vietnam | Mahsa Afsaneh Iran |
| Team kata | Japan Suzuka Kashioka Yoko Kimura Miku Morioka | Iran Elnaz Taghipour Mahsa Afsaneh Najmeh Ghazizadeh | Vietnam Đỗ Thị Thu Hà Nguyễn Thanh Hằng Nguyễn Thị Hằng |
| Team kata | Japan Suzuka Kashioka Yoko Kimura Miku Morioka | Iran Elnaz Taghipour Mahsa Afsaneh Najmeh Ghazizadeh | Malaysia Khaw Yee Voon Lee Xin Yi Thor Chee Yee |
| Kumite −50 kg | Nasrin Dousti Iran | Hikaru Ono Japan | Jang So-young South Korea |
| Kumite −50 kg | Nasrin Dousti Iran | Hikaru Ono Japan | Sabina Zakharova Kazakhstan |
| Kumite −55 kg | Miki Kobayashi Japan | Fatemeh Chalaki Iran | Lê Bích Phương Vietnam |
| Kumite −55 kg | Miki Kobayashi Japan | Fatemeh Chalaki Iran | Ma Man Sum Hong Kong |
| Kumite −61 kg | Yu Miyamoto Japan | Madina Utelbayeva Kazakhstan | Yamini Gopalasamy Malaysia |
| Kumite −61 kg | Yu Miyamoto Japan | Madina Utelbayeva Kazakhstan | Niu Conghui China |
| Kumite −68 kg | Yulanda Asmuruf Indonesia | Pegah Zangeneh Iran | Gao Mengmeng China |
| Kumite −68 kg | Yulanda Asmuruf Indonesia | Pegah Zangeneh Iran | Mayumi Someya Japan |
| Kumite +68 kg | Hamideh Abbasali Iran | Emiko Honma Japan | Yin Xiaoyan China |
| Kumite +68 kg | Hamideh Abbasali Iran | Emiko Honma Japan | Dilfuza Akbarova Uzbekistan |
| Team kumite | China Gao Mengmeng Niu Conghui Shi Jianling Yin Xiaoyan | Vietnam Bùi Thị Ngân Lăng Thị Hoa Lê Bích Phương Trần Hoàng Yến Phượng | Japan Emiko Honma Miki Kobayashi Yu Miyamoto Mayumi Someya |
| Team kumite | China Gao Mengmeng Niu Conghui Shi Jianling Yin Xiaoyan | Vietnam Bùi Thị Ngân Lăng Thị Hoa Lê Bích Phương Trần Hoàng Yến Phượng | Iran Samaneh Khoshghadam Pegah Zangeneh Leila Bahrami Hamideh Abbasali Samira Malekipour |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan | 6 | 3 | 4 | 13 |
| 2 | Iran | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 |
| 3 | China | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 4 | Kazakhstan | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | Malaysia | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 6 | Indonesia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | South Korea | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | Vietnam | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 9 | Uzbekistan | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | Jordan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Syria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | Kuwait | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Macau | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Pakistan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (15 entries) | Totals (15 entries) | 17 | 17 | 34 | 68 |