# 2015 European Karate Championships

The 2015 European Karate Championships, the 50th edition, was held at Istanbul in Turkey from 19 to 22 March, 2015. A total of 482 competitors from 47 countries participated at the event.

## Medalists
### Men's competition
#### Individual

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Kata | Damián Quintero | Mehmet Yakan | Vu Duc Minh Dack Mattia Busato |
| Kumite -60 kg | Luca Maresca | Sofiane Agoudjil | Evgeny Plakhutin Matías Gómez |
| Kumite -67 kg | Niyazi Aliyev | Burak Uygur | Danil Domdjoni Manuel Rasero |
| Kumite -75 kg | Rafael Aghayev | Noah Bitsch | Luigi Busà Ruslans Sadikovs |
| Kumite -84 kg | Nello Maestri | Aykhan Mamayev | Kenji Grillon Uğur Aktaş |
| Kumite +84 kg | Slobodan Bitević | Enes Erkan | Martin Nestorovski Jonathan Horne |

#### Team

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Kata | Spain José Carbonell Damián Quintero Francisco Salazar | Italy Mattia Busato Alessandro Iodice Alfredo Tocco | France Lucas Jeannot Enzo Montarello Ahmed Zemouri Croatia Ivan Ermenc Franjo Maškarin Damjan Padovan |
| Kumite | Turkey Enes Erkan Gökhan Gündüz Emre İpek Rıdvan Kaptan Yaser Şahintekin Serkan Yağcı Ziya Yaşar | France Nadir Benaïssa Amin Bouazza Logan Da Costa Marvin Garin Kenji Grillon Lou Lebrun Lionel Nardy | Netherlands Ozan Arslan Geoffrey Berens Tyron-Darnell Lardy Lorenzo Manhoef Moreno Sheppard René Smaal Donovan Wold Azerbaijan Panah Abdullayev Tural Aghalarzade Rafael Aghayev Shahin Atamov Asiman Gurbanli Orkhan Heydarli Aykhan Mamayev |

### Women's competition
#### Individual

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Kata | Sandra Sánchez | Dilara Bozan | Jasmin Bleul Veronika Mišková |
| Kumite -50 kg | Bettina Plank | Alexandra Recchia | Duygu Bugur Serap Özçelik |
| Kumite -55 kg | Emilie Thouy | Tuba Yakan | Jennifer Warling Cristina Ferrer |
| Kumite -61 kg | Lucie Ignace | Ana Lenard | Ingrida Suchánková Irene Colomar |
| Kumite -68 kg | Alisa Buchinger | Elena Quirici | Marina Raković Cristina Vizcaíno |
| Kumite +68 kg | Maša Martinović | Meltem Hocaoğlu | Helena Kuusisto Nadège Ait-Ibrahim |

#### Team

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Kata | Turkey Dilara Bozan Rabia Küsmüş Gizem Şahin | Germany Jasmin Bleul Christine Heinrich Sophie Wachter | Italy Sara Battaglia Viviana Bottaro Michela Pezzetti Spain Sonia García Sheila Jorge Paula Rodríguez |
| Kumite | Croatia Ana-Marija Bujas Čelan Ana Lenard Azra Saleš Ivona Tubić | Russia Vera Kovaleva Tatiana Oparina Inga Sheroziya Ivanna Zaytseva | Turkey Merve Baltay Merve Çoban Serap Özçelik Tuba Yakan Austria Alisa Buchinger Stephanie Kaup Bettina Plank Nathalie Reiter |

## Medal table

* Host nation (Turkey)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Spain (ESP) | 3 | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| 2 | Turkey (TUR)* | 2 | 6 | 3 | 11 |
| 3 | France (FRA) | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| 4 | Italy (ITA) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 5 | Croatia (CRO) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | Azerbaijan (AZE) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Austria (AUT) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Serbia (SRB) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 10 | Russia (RUS) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Latvia (LAT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Luxembourg (LUX) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Montenegro (MNE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | North Macedonia (MKD) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Slovakia (SVK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (19 entries) | Totals (19 entries) | 16 | 16 | 32 | 64 |

## Participating countries

* Albania (3)
* Austria (8)
* Azerbaijan (16)
* Belarus (10)
* Belgium (9)
* Bosnia and Herzegovina (17)
* Bulgaria (5)
* Croatia (23)
* Cyprus (2)
* Czech Republic (6)
* Denmark (17)
* England (14)
* Estonia (2)
* Finland (9)
* France (20)
* Georgia (6)
* Germany (15)
* Greece (10)
* Hungary (16)
* Iceland (2)
* Ireland (7)
* Israel (6)
* Italy (17)
* Kosovo (11)
* Latvia (6)
* Luxembourg (5)
* Macedonia (18)
* Moldova (2)
* Monaco (1)
* Montenegro (15)
* Netherlands (7)
* Northern Ireland (1)
* Norway (3)
* Poland (13)
* Portugal (12)
* Romania (13)
* Russia (21)
* San Marino (1)
* Scotland (3)
* Serbia (20)
* Slovakia (11)
* Slovenia (13)
* Spain (19)
* Sweden (3)
* Switzerland (6)
* Turkey (24)
* Ukraine (14)