# 2023 World Karate Championships – Men's individual kata

The men's individual kata competition at the 2023 World Karate Championships was held on 24 and 28 October 2023.

## Results
### Round 1

| Rank | Pool 1 | Pool 1 | Pool 2 | Pool 2 | Pool 3 | Pool 3 | Pool 4 | Pool 4 |
| Rank | Athlete | Total | Athlete | Total | Athlete | Total | Athlete | Total |
| 1 | Mattia Busato | 42.5 | Damián Quintero | 41.9 | Yuki Ujihara | 40.4 | Ariel Torres | 41.5 |
| 2 | Franck Ngoan | 40.9 | Roman Hrčka | 39.5 | Salah El Mansoury | 39.7 | Roman Heydarov | 39.4 |
| 3 | Kirils Membo | 39.7 | Park Hee-jun | 38.5 | Uroš Subota | 39.1 | Mohammad Al-Mosawi | 38.8 |
| 4 | Lamprinos Marios Markesinis | 39.5 | Konstantin Sutiagin | 37.8 | Matteo Tamborlani | 38.3 | Jeremy Laurence Nopre | 38.2 |
| 5 | Ahmad Zigi Zaresta Yuda | 38.4 | Madi Kateshov | 36.8 | Lukas Grimm | 37.9 | Rick Sonnema | 37.1 |
| 6 | Asmadie Muhammad Aiqal | 37.3 | Tarik Salkić | 36.6 | Jure Sluga | 37.4 | Mariano Wong | 37.1 |
| 7 | Omar Diop | 37.1 | Shaun Yuen | 35.8 | Ruben Vinje Fagerland | 37.0 | Piotr Iwaszkiewicz | 37.0 |
| 8 | Dovydas Žymantas | 36.8 | Ahxel Tepal | 35.5 | Andrés Tejada | 36.2 | Isaac Hoshi | 37.0 |
| 9 | Nick Young | 34.4 | Þórður Jökull Henrysson | 34.8 | Nathan Yuki McNeil | 35.9 | Adham Hashem | 35.8 |
| 10 | Matteo Mucciolil | 30.5 | | | | | | |
| Rank | Pool 5 | Pool 5 | Pool 6 | Pool 6 | Pool 7 | Pool 7 | Pool 8 | Pool 8 |
| Rank | Athlete | Total | Athlete | Total | Athlete | Total | Athlete | Total |
| 1 | Ali Sofuoğlu | 41.6 | Karim Waleed Ghaly | 41.2 | Chen Chao-ching | 40.5 | Kakeru Nishiyama | 39.7 |
| 2 | William Tran | 39.1 | Sadra Shidzi | 39.4 | Howard Hung | 40.0 | Botond Nagy | 38.8 |
| 3 | Salih Binar Hama | 38.0 | Penyo Penev | 38.9 | Cleiver Casanova | 39.4 | Yaroslav Fedorov | 38.6 |
| 4 | Petru Comănescu | 37.9 | Joshua Núñez | 37.3 | Vladimir Mijač | 38.7 | James Harrison | 37.2 |
| 5 | Saber Ben Makhlouf | 37.5 | Dyun Thiago Kimura | 37.1 | Robert Torres | 38.3 | Matija Relić | 37.2 |
| 6 | Hernán Amaya | 37.2 | David Gannon | 37.0 | Luca Impagnatiello | 38.2 | Silvio Moreira | 36.9 |
| 7 | David Spasovski | 36.3 | Jesse Sim | 36.5 | Artur Neto | 37.9 | David Veistrup | 34.0 |
| 8 | Labib Mohamed | 33.1 | Kareem Abu Al-Haija | 36.2 | Florian Zöchling | 37.2 | Aniket Gupta | 33.7 |
| 9 | Kuok Kin Hang | | Abdullah Al-Malki | 35.3 | Ventor Gjuka | 35.0 | Ankar Alquinta | |

### Round 2

| Rank | Pool 1 | Pool 1 | Pool 2 | Pool 2 | Pool 3 | Pool 3 | Pool 4 | Pool 4 |
| Rank | Athlete | Total | Athlete | Total | Athlete | Total | Athlete | Total |
| 1 | Damián Quintero | 43.2 | Ariel Torres | 41.3 | Ali Sofuoğlu | 41.6 | Kakeru Nishiyama | 42.8 |
| 2 | Mattia Busato | 42.3 | Roman Heydarov | 39.5 | Petru Comănescu | 40.1 | Botond Nagy | 40.0 |
| 3 | Franck Ngoan | 40.7 | Jeremy Laurence Nopre | 38.2 | Joshua Núñez | 39.5 | Cleiver Casanova | 39.8 |
| 4 | Park Hee-jun | 40.2 | Mohammad Al-Mosawi | 37.9 | Karim Waleed Ghaly | 39.1 | Chen Chao-ching | 39.7 |
| 5 | Konstantin Sutiagin | 39.4 | Yuki Ujihara | 37.7 | Salih Binar Hama | 38.9 | Howard Hung | 39.6 |
| 6 | Roman Hrčka | 39.3 | Uroš Subota | 37.3 | Sadra Shidzi | 38.5 | Vladimir Mijač | 39.0 |
| 7 | Lamprinos Marios Markesinis | 38.5 | Matteo Tamborlani | 37.1 | William Tran | 37.4 | Yaroslav Fedorov | 38.9 |
| 8 | Kirils Membo | 38.1 | Salah El Mansoury | 34.6 | Penyo Penev | | James Harrison | 38.3 |

### Round 3

| Rank | Pool 1 | Pool 1 | Pool 2 | Pool 2 |
| Rank | Athlete | Total | Athlete | Total |
| 1 | Damián Quintero | 43.1 | Ali Sofuoğlu | 43.5 |
| 2 | Ariel Torres | 41.7 | Kakeru Nishiyama | 43.3 |
| 3 | Mattia Busato | 41.4 | Karim Waleed Ghaly | 41.3 |
| 4 | Park Hee-jun | 41.1 | Botond Nagy | 40.4 |
| 5 | Roman Heydarov | 40.7 | Chen Chao-ching | 39.5 |
| 6 | Mohammad Al-Mosawi | 39.7 | Petru Comănescu | 39.1 |
| 7 | Jeremy Laurence Nopre | 38.9 | Cleiver Casanova | 39.0 |
| 8 | Franck Ngoan | 38.4 | Joshua Núñez | 38.6 |

### Finals

| Final | Final |
| Damián Quintero | 44.5 |
| Ali Sofuoğlu | 45.6 |
| Bronze medal | Bronze medal |
| Ariel Torres | 43.2 |
| Karim Waleed Ghaly | 42.4 |
| Mattia Busato | 42.9 |
| Kakeru Nishiyama | 44.4 |