# 2018 World Karate Championships

The 2018 World Karate Championships were the 24th edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Madrid, Spain from November 6 to November 11, 2018.

## Medalists
### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual kata details | Ryo Kiyuna Japan | Damián Quintero Spain | Ali Sofuoğlu Turkey |
| Individual kata details | Ryo Kiyuna Japan | Damián Quintero Spain | Mattia Busato Italy |
| Team kata details | Japan Arata Kinjo Ryo Kiyuna Takuya Uemura | Spain José Carbonell Sergio Galán Francisco Salazar | Iran Milad Delikhoun Abolfazl Shahrjerdi Ali Zand |
| Team kata details | Japan Arata Kinjo Ryo Kiyuna Takuya Uemura | Spain José Carbonell Sergio Galán Francisco Salazar | Italy Gianluca Gallo Alessandro Iodice Giuseppe Panagia |
| Kumite −60 kg details | Angelo Crescenzo Italy | Naoto Sago Japan | Darkhan Assadilov Kazakhstan |
| Kumite −60 kg details | Angelo Crescenzo Italy | Naoto Sago Japan | Abdessalam Ameknassi Morocco |
| Kumite −67 kg details | Steven Da Costa France | Vinícius Figueira Brazil | Camilo Velozo Chile |
| Kumite −67 kg details | Steven Da Costa France | Vinícius Figueira Brazil | Hamoun Derafshipour Iran |
| Kumite −75 kg details | Bahman Askari Iran | Luigi Busà Italy | Ken Nishimura Japan |
| Kumite −75 kg details | Bahman Askari Iran | Luigi Busà Italy | Rafael Aghayev Azerbaijan |
| Kumite −84 kg details | Ivan Kvesić Croatia | Valerii Chobotar Ukraine | Zabihollah Pourshab Iran |
| Kumite −84 kg details | Ivan Kvesić Croatia | Valerii Chobotar Ukraine | Uğur Aktaş Turkey |
| Kumite +84 kg details | Jonathan Horne Germany | Sajjad Ganjzadeh Iran | Babacar Seck Spain |
| Kumite +84 kg details | Jonathan Horne Germany | Sajjad Ganjzadeh Iran | Alparslan Yamanoğlu Turkey |
| Team kumite details | Iran Saleh Abazari Ali Asghar Asiabari Bahman Askari Sajjad Ganjzadeh Saman Heidari Mehdi Khodabakhshi Zabihollah Pourshab | Turkey Uğur Aktaş Erman Eltemur Samed Gök Rıdvan Kaptan Ömer Abdurrahim Özer Burak Uygur Alparslan Yamanoğlu | Japan Daiki Ando Ryutaro Araga Hideyoshi Kagawa Yuta Mori Ken Nishimura Yusei Sakiyama Rikito Shimada |
| Team kumite details | Iran Saleh Abazari Ali Asghar Asiabari Bahman Askari Sajjad Ganjzadeh Saman Heidari Mehdi Khodabakhshi Zabihollah Pourshab | Turkey Uğur Aktaş Erman Eltemur Samed Gök Rıdvan Kaptan Ömer Abdurrahim Özer Burak Uygur Alparslan Yamanoğlu | Italy Ahmed El Sharaby Rabia Jendoubi Nello Maestri Luca Maresca Simone Marino Michele Martina Andrea Minardi |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual kata details | Sandra Sánchez Spain | Kiyou Shimizu Japan | Grace Lau Hong Kong |
| Individual kata details | Sandra Sánchez Spain | Kiyou Shimizu Japan | Viviana Bottaro Italy |
| Team kata details | Japan Saori Ishibashi Mai Mugiyama Sae Taira | Spain Marta García Lidia Rodríguez Raquel Roy | Italy Sara Battaglia Terryana D'Onofrio Michela Pezzetti |
| Team kata details | Japan Saori Ishibashi Mai Mugiyama Sae Taira | Spain Marta García Lidia Rodríguez Raquel Roy | Turkey Dilara Bozan Rabia Küsmüş Gizem Sofuoğlu |
| Kumite −50 kg details | Miho Miyahara Japan | Serap Özçelik Turkey | Bettina Plank Austria |
| Kumite −50 kg details | Miho Miyahara Japan | Serap Özçelik Turkey | Sara Bahmanyar Iran |
| Kumite −55 kg details | Dorota Banaszczyk Poland | Jana Bitsch Germany | Wen Tzu-yun Chinese Taipei |
| Kumite −55 kg details | Dorota Banaszczyk Poland | Jana Bitsch Germany | Ivet Goranova Bulgaria |
| Kumite −61 kg details | Jovana Preković Serbia | Yin Xiaoyan China | Btissam Sadini Morocco |
| Kumite −61 kg details | Jovana Preković Serbia | Yin Xiaoyan China | Giana Farouk Egypt |
| Kumite −68 kg details | Irina Zaretska Azerbaijan | Victoria Isaeva Russia | Lamya Matoub Algeria |
| Kumite −68 kg details | Irina Zaretska Azerbaijan | Victoria Isaeva Russia | Miroslava Kopúňová Slovakia |
| Kumite +68 kg details | Eleni Chatziliadou Greece | Ayumi Uekusa Japan | Shymaa Abou-El-Yazed Egypt |
| Kumite +68 kg details | Eleni Chatziliadou Greece | Ayumi Uekusa Japan | Hana Antunovic Sweden |
| Team kumite details | France Léa Avazeri Andréa Brito Leïla Heurtault Laura Sivert | Japan Natsumi Kawamura Ayaka Saito Mayumi Someya Ayumi Uekusa | Spain Cristina Ferrer Laura Palacio María Torres Cristina Vizcaíno |
| Team kumite details | France Léa Avazeri Andréa Brito Leïla Heurtault Laura Sivert | Japan Natsumi Kawamura Ayaka Saito Mayumi Someya Ayumi Uekusa | Egypt Aisha Abdelrahman Shymaa Abou-El-Yazed Feryal Abdelaziz Giana Farouk |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| 2 | Iran | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 3 | France | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Spain | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | Italy | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 6 | Germany | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Azerbaijan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Croatia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Greece | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Poland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Serbia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Turkey | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 13 | Brazil | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | China | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Russia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Ukraine | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | Egypt | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 18 | Morocco | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 19 | Algeria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Austria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Bulgaria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Chile | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Kazakhstan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Slovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 19 | Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (27 entries) | Totals (27 entries) | 16 | 16 | 32 | 64 |

## Participating nations

1117 athletes from 140 nations competed.
* Albania (3)
* Algeria (16)
* Andorra (1)
* Angola (3)
* Argentina (6)
* Armenia (8)
* Australia (12)
* Austria (13)
* Azerbaijan (15)
* Bangladesh (3)
* Belarus (14)
* Belgium (12)
* Benin (1)
* Bosnia and Herzegovina (14)
* Botswana (2)
* Brazil (16)
* Bulgaria (7)
* Burkina Faso (7)
* Burundi (2)
* Cambodia (2)
* Cameroon (9)
* Canada (14)
* Cape Verde (7)
* Cayman Islands (1)
* Chad (4)
* Chile (7)
* China (12)
* Chinese Taipei (14)
* Colombia (16)
* Congo (7)
* Costa Rica (12)
* Croatia (16)
* Cuba (3)
* Curaçao (2)
* Cyprus (4)
* Czech Republic (10)
* Democratic Republic of the Congo (8)
* Denmark (13)
* Djibouti (1)
* Dominican Republic (14)
* Ecuador (3)
* Egypt (14)
* El Salvador (4)
* England (15)
* Estonia (3)
* Fiji (2)
* Finland (11)
* France (15)
* Gabon (2)
* Georgia (5)
* Germany (14)
* Ghana (5)
* Greece (5)
* Guatemala (10)
* Hong Kong (13)
* Hungary (11)
* Iceland (5)
* India (16)
* Indonesia (12)
* Iran (16)
* Iraq (2)
* Ireland (11)
* Israel (7)
* Italy (15)
* Ivory Coast (11)
* Jamaica (1)
* Japan (16)
* Jordan (10)
* Kazakhstan (14)
* Kosovo (13)
* Kuwait (8)
* Kyrgyzstan (11)
* Latvia (12)
* Lebanon (3)
* Liechtenstein (1)
* Lithuania (8)
* Macau (5)
* Macedonia (13)
* Madagascar (3)
* Malaysia (7)
* Malta (1)
* Mexico (13)
* Moldova (4)
* Montenegro (11)
* Morocco (11)
* Mozambique (8)
* Namibia (4)
* Nepal (5)
* Netherlands (10)
* New Zealand (9)
* Nicaragua (1)
* Nigeria (3)
* Northern Ireland (1)
* Norway (7)
* North Korea (2)
* Oman (4)
* Pakistan (5)
* Palestine (6)
* Panama (10)
* Paraguay (3)
* Peru (15)
* Philippines (3)
* Poland (8)
* Portugal (12)
* Puerto Rico (1)
* Qatar (3)
* Refugee Karate Team (2)
* Romania (15)
* Russia (16)
* San Marino (1)
* Saudi Arabia (7)
* Scotland (7)
* Senegal (10)
* Serbia (16)
* Sierra Leone (1)
* Singapore (1)
* Slovakia (15)
* Slovenia (7)
* South Africa (9)
* South Korea (9)
* Spain (16)
* Sri Lanka (3)
* Sweden (11)
* Switzerland (10)
* Tajikistan (7)
* Thailand (6)
* Timor-Leste (2)
* Trinidad and Tobago (4)
* Tunisia (13)
* Turkey (16)
* Ukraine (14)
* United Arab Emirates (5)
* United States (14)
* Uruguay (4)
* Uzbekistan (10)
* Venezuela (12)
* Vietnam (3)
* Wales (6)
* Yemen (1)
* Zimbabwe (1)