# 2021 World Kata Championships

The 2021 World Kata Championships were held from 26 to 27 October 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal. During the 2021 World Kata Championships the athletes entered could perform in 5 kata (Nage-no-kata, Katame-no-kata, Ju-no-kata, Kime-no-kata, Kodokan-Goshin-jutsu), two of which (Nage-no-kata and katame-no-kata) were also accessible for the first time to junior competitors aged under 23.

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Nage-no-kata | Netherlands Erik Faes Niels Neumann | Colombia Glatenferd Escobar Miguel Bermúdez | Spain Antonio Marín Gómez Nieves Eduardo Ayala Torrado |
| Katame-no-kata | Japan Ryuji Kabata Toshiji Odaten | Italy Andrea Fregnan Pietro Corcioni | Belgium Nicolas Gilon Jean-Philippe Gilon |
| Ju-no-kata | Japan Momoko Ishida Mariko Ishida | Germany Wolfgang Dax-Romswinkel Ursula Loosen | Romania Alina Zaharia Alina Cheru |
| Kime-no-kata | France Michel Jeuffroy Laurent Jeuffroy | France Grégory Marques Stéphane Bega | Spain Miguel Ángel Vicens Siquier Antonio Vicens Siquier |
| Kodokan-goshin-jutsu | Japan Koo Ikeda Fumitaka Sakamaki | France Claude Jaume Brice Bénard | Portugal Pedro Gonçalves Paulo Moreira |
| Nage-no-kata (junior) | France Victoria Kraska Dylan Meddour | Russian Judo Federation Nikolai Zhikharev Iaroslav Zhikharev | Poland Aleksandra Masternak Patryk Urban |
| Katame-no-kata (junior) | France Dylan Meddour Victoria Kraska | Portugal João Baptista José Farias | Russian Judo Federation Vladislav Burmentev Daniil Sidorov |

## Medal table

* Host nation (Portugal)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | France | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 2 | Japan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Portugal* | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Russian Judo Federation | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Colombia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Italy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Spain | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | Belgium | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | Romania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (12 entries) | Totals (12 entries) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |

## Results
### Nage-no-kata
#### Group 1

| Place | Athletes | Country | Points |
| 1 | Glatenferd Escobar Miguel Bermúdez | Colombia | 412.5 |
| 2 | Antonio Marín Gómez Nieves Eduardo Ayala Torrado | Spain | 406.0 |
| 3 | Yagoub Al-Shmrani Ali Meneiawi | Saudi Arabia | 401.0 |
| 4 | Ludovic Germa Jessie Vinette | France | 400.5 |
| 5 | Maik van der Hulst Kevin van der Hulst | Netherlands | 396.5 |
| 6 | Fabiano Rodrigo de Barros Yann Fiorda Prando | Brazil | 391.5 |
| 7 | Nuno Ferreira Diogo Ferreira | Portugal | 388.5 |
| 8 | Maciej Pudłowski Anita Krawczyk | Poland | 375.0 |
| 9 | Gino Gianmarco Stefanel Alessandro Cugini | Italy | 373.5 |
| 10 | Gerardo Tello Sergio Suguieda | United States | 343.5 |
| 11 | Klaudia Wróblewska Kacper Rola | Poland | 335.5 |

#### Group 2

| Place | Athletes | Country | Points |
| 1 | Cedric Goulard Thomas Caillard | France | 410.5 |
| 2 | Edwim Gómez Gerardo Restrepo | Colombia | 402.0 |
| 3 | Erik Faes Niels Neumann | Netherlands | 399.5 |
| 4 | Carlos Alberto Pereira Taluan Nogueira | Brazil | 391.5 |
| 5 | Bartosz Machna Dawid Kajdy | Poland | 390.0 |
| 6 | Unai Saralegui Vallejo Unai Reguillaga Eizaguirre | Spain | 388.0 |
| 7 | Martin Hinteregger Philipp Hinteregger | Austria | 378.5 |
| 8 | Luís Nogueira Lucas Maia | Portugal | 358.0 |
| 9 | Ho Shing Heen Hung Long Tsun | Hong Kong | 328.0 |
| 10 | Osama Niyaz Mounis Hawsawi | Saudi Arabia | 321.0 |
| 11 | Erin Reim Marika Boileau | Canada | 303.5 |

#### Final

| Place | Athletes | Country | Points |
| | Erik Faes Niels Neumann | Netherlands | 415.0 |
| | Glatenferd Escobar Miguel Bermúdez | Colombia | 414.0 |
| | Antonio Marín Gómez Nieves Eduardo Ayala Torrado | Spain | 411.0 |
| 4 | Edwim Gómez Gerardo Restrepo | Colombia | 408.0 |
| 5 | Yagoub Al-Shmrani Ali Meneiawi | Saudi Arabia | 403.5 |
| 6 | Cedric Goulard Thomas Caillard | France | 398.5 |

### Katame-no-kata
#### Group 1

| Place | Athletes | Country | Points |
| 1 | Ryuji Kabata Toshiji Odate | Japan | 423.5 |
| 2 | Tycho van der Werff David Lefevere | Netherlands | 412.5 |
| 3 | Shane Rooney Hu Xiao Kang | Canada | 397.5 |
| 4 | Nicolas Fourmaux Jean Daniel Nguyen Van Loc | France | 395.0 |
| 5 | Dmitry Yung Sergey Shchetinskiy | RJF | 381.5 |
| 6 | Vanessa Wenzl Matthias Heinrich | Austria | 380.5 |
| 7 | Massimo Cester Davide Mauri | Italy | 380.0 |
| 8 | Félix Jiménez Rodríguez Rafael María Prado Ballestero | Spain | 359.0 |
| 9 | Luís Canaveira Thiago Marçal Silva | Portugal | 353.5 |
| 10 | Beata Sypniewska Sebastian Gembalczyk | Poland | 353.0 |

#### Group 2

| Place | Athletes | Country | Points |
| 1 | Nicolas Gilon Jean-Philippe Gilon | Belgium | 417.5 |
| 2 | Andrea Fregnan Pietro Corcioni | Italy | 409.5 |
| 3 | Juan Pedro Goicoechandia Huete Roberto Villar Aguilera | Spain | 399.0 |
| 4 | Eloy Carlos Rodriguez Matysek Emmanuel Augeraud | France | 398.5 |
| 5 | Miriam Sikora Christian Steinert | Germany | 397.5 |
| 6 | Kelly Palmer Wesley Enns | Canada | 385.0 |
| 7 | Douglas Newcomer Ray Cox | United States | 375.0 |
| 8 | Dominika Kincelová Milan Ruják | Slovakia | 365.5 |
| 9 | Dmytro Kalchenko Hennadii Riabchynskyi | Ukraine | 312.0 |

#### Final

| Place | Athletes | Country | Points |
| | Ryuji Kabata Toshiji Odate | Japan | 428.0 |
| | Andrea Fregnan Pietro Corcioni | Italy | 420.0 |
| | Nicolas Gilon Jean-Philippe Gilon | Belgium | 415.5 |
| 4 | Tycho van der Werff David Lefevere | Netherlands | 411.0 |
| 5 | Juan Pedro Goicoechandia Huete Roberto Villar Aguilera | Spain | 407.0 |
| 6 | Shane Rooney Hu Xiao Kang | Canada | 402.5 |

### Ju-no-kata
#### Group 1

| Place | Athletes | Country | Points |
| 1 | Wolfgang Dax-Romswinkel Ursula Loosen | Germany | 395.5 |
| 2 | Alessandro Nuzzi Herrero Andrea Nuzzi Herrero | Spain | 377.5 |
| 3 | Giovanni Tarabelli Angelica Tarabelli | Italy | 377.0 |
| 4 | Zoran Grba Sandra Uršičić | Croatia | 367.0 |
| 5 | Ludovic Michelet Alice Ballaud | France | 362.0 |
| 6 | Hanna Peinsipp Paula Peinsipp | Austria | 350.0 |
| 7 | Dumitrita Rus Mihaela Țipa | Romania | 347.5 |
| 8 | Marie-José Nieuwenhuizen Irene Suurland | Netherlands | 337.5 |
| 9 | Meggie Aiko Lachaîne Danielle Ferland | Canada | 331.0 |
| 10 | Frederick Dagdagan Lee Pasteris | United States | 324.0 |

#### Group 2

| Place | Athletes | Country | Points |
| 1 | Momoko Ishida Mariko Ishida | Japan | 422.5 |
| 2 | Alina Zaharia Alina Cheru | Romania | 386.0 |
| 3 | Mathieu Coulon Carole Heras | France | 381.0 |
| 4 | Laura Bugo Barbara Bruni Cerchier | Italy | 370.0 |
| 5 | Mariano Arroyo Martín Juan Manuel García Pozo | Spain | 368.5 |
| 6 | Ulrich Bröckel Elke Bröckel | Germany | 359.5 |
| 7 | Fabrice Beney Laurence Jeanneret Berruex | Switzerland | 357.0 |
| 8 | Yik Lam Nikki Yu Wing Yan Grace Chan | Hong Kong | 346.5 |
| 9 | Victoria Cleevely Lisa Cleevely | Great Britain | 334.5 |

#### Final

| Place | Athletes | Country | Points |
| | Momoko Ishida Mariko Ishida | Japan | 427.5 |
| | Wolfgang Dax-Romswinkel Ursula Loosen | Germany | 411.5 |
| | Alina Zaharia Alina Cheru | Romania | 398.0 |
| 4 | Mathieu Coulon Carole Heras | France | 385.5 |
| 5 | Giovanni Tarabelli Angelica Tarabelli | Italy | 381.0 |
| 6 | Alessandro Nuzzi Herrero Andrea Nuzzi Herrero | Spain | 369.5 |

### Kime-no-kata
#### Group 1

| Place | Athletes | Country | Points |
| 1 | Michel Jeuffroy Laurent Jeuffroy | France | 522.0 |
| 2 | Grégory Marques Stéphane Bega | France | 517.0 |
| 3 | Miguel Ángel Vicens Siquier Antonio Vicens Siquier | Spain | 501.0 |
| 4 | Yuri Ferretti Andrea Giani Contini | Italy | 498.5 |
| 5 | Mischa Fransen Yoeri Fransen | Netherlands | 498.5 |
| 6 | Mario Pageau Martin Vallières | Canada | 441.0 |
| 7 | Zbigniew Wojtowicz Jacek Kutyba | Poland | 435.0 |

#### Group 2

| Place | Athletes | Country | Points |
| 1 | Lisa Capriotti Robert Gouthro | United States | 516.5 |
| 2 | Grégory Rieffel Philippe Leger | France | 514.5 |
| 3 | Enrico Tommasi Alberto Gainelli | Italy | 509.5 |
| 4 | Rubén Gil Pérez Víctor Lechón Lidón | Spain | 497.5 |
| 5 | Sérgio Carvalho Nuno Rosa | Portugal | 482.5 |
| 6 | Robert Hatzl Franz Winter | Austria | 476.5 |
| 7 | Sönke Schillig Johannes Eidinger | Germany | 474.5 |

#### Final

| Place | Athletes | Country | Points |
| | Michel Jeuffroy Laurent Jeuffroy | France | 521.5 |
| | Grégory Marques Stéphane Bega | France | 513.0 |
| | Miguel Ángel Vicens Siquier Antonio Vicens Siquier | Spain | 509.0 |
| 4 | Enrico Tommasi Alberto Gainelli | Italy | 503.5 |
| 5 | Grégory Rieffel Philippe Leger | France | 500.5 |
| 6 | Lisa Capriotti Robert Gouthro | United States | 465.5 |

### Kodokan-goshin-jutsu
#### Group 1

| Place | Athletes | Country | Points |
| 1 | Koo Ikeda Fumitaka Sakamaki | Japan | 580.5 |
| 2 | Pedro Gonçalves Paulo Moreira | Portugal | 553.5 |
| 3 | Juana María Puigserver Sanso Llorenç Gayà Puigserver | Spain | 533.5 |
| 4 | Thomas Hofmann Daniel Koliander | Germany | 528.0 |
| 5 | Ilaria Placidi Nicola Placidi | Italy | 528.0 |
| 6 | Didier Terwinghe Nicolas Colson | Belgium | 514.0 |
| 7 | Ricky Cleevely Richard Bannister | Great Britain | 504.0 |
| 8 | Lit Lok Yi Ng Bo Fai | Hong Kong | 502.5 |
| 9 | Benjamin Mehić Darko Krašovec | Slovenia | 485.5 |

#### Group 2

| Place | Athletes | Country | Points |
| 1 | Claude Jaume Brice Bénard | France | 559.5 |
| 2 | Antoni Obrador Mas Pedro Marcos Rodríguez | Spain | 540.5 |
| 3 | Leszek Piąstka Anna Jagiełło | Poland | 531.5 |
| 4 | Yves Engelen Dimitri Closset | Belgium | 523.5 |
| 5 | José Costa Verissimo Segurado | Portugal | 523.5 |
| 6 | Allyn Takahashi Tony Walby | Canada | 506.0 |
| 7 | Xu Yiqi Leung Cho Fung | Hong Kong | 490.5 |
| 8 | Sergio Loi Giuseppe Guzzo | Italy | 249.3 |

#### Final

| Place | Athletes | Country | Points |
| | Koo Ikeda Fumitaka Sakamaki | Japan | 568.0 |
| | Claude Jaume Brice Bénard | France | 551.5 |
| | Pedro Gonçalves Paulo Moreira | Portugal | 551.5 |
| 4 | Leszek Piąstka Anna Jagiełło | Poland | 535.5 |
| 5 | Antoni Obrador Mas Pedro Marcos Rodríguez | Spain | 535.5 |
| 6 | Juana María Puigserver Sanso Llorenç Gayà Puigserver | Spain | 528.5 |

### Nage-no-kata (Junior)
#### Preliminary

| Place | Athletes | Country | Points |
| 1 | Nikolai Zhikharev Iaroslav Zhikharev | RJF | 382.5 |
| 2 | Victoria Kraska Dylan Meddour | France | 371.0 |
| 3 | Aleksandra Masternak Patryk Urban | Poland | 363.5 |
| 4 | Ivan Fedorov Egor Gaiazov | RJF | 361.5 |
| 5 | Álvaro Gayarre Mompel Alberto Gayarre Mompel | Spain | 340.0 |
| 6 | José Farias João Baptista | Portugal | 335.5 |
| 7 | Diana Borysenko Vitalii Khrapach | Ukraine | 331.0 |

#### Final

| Place | Athletes | Country | Points |
| | Victoria Kraska Dylan Meddour | France | 393.5 |
| | Nikolai Zhikharev Iaroslav Zhikharev | RJF | 392.0 |
| | Aleksandra Masternak Patryk Urban | Poland | 382.5 |
| 4 | Ivan Fedorov Egor Gaiazov | RJF | 382.0 |
| 5 | Álvaro Gayarre Mompel Alberto Gayarre Mompel | Spain | 377.0 |
| 6 | José Farias João Baptista | Portugal | 373.0 |

### Katame-no-kata (Junior)
#### Preliminary

| Place | Athletes | Country | Points |
| 1 | Dylan Meddour Victoria Kraska | France | 369.0 |
| 2 | Vladislav Burmentev Daniil Sidorov | RJF | 353.5 |
| 3 | João Baptista José Farias | Portugal | 346.0 |
| 4 | Diana Borysenko Vitalii Khrapach | Ukraine | 316.0 |

#### Final

| Place | Athletes | Country | Points |
| | Dylan Meddour Victoria Kraska | France | 401.0 |
| | João Baptista José Farias | Portugal | 374.5 |
| | Vladislav Burmentev Daniil Sidorov | RJF | 363.0 |
| 4 | Diana Borysenko Vitalii Khrapach | Ukraine | 329.5 |