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| Host city |  Braga, Portugal |
|---|---|
| Organiser | FISU |
| Nations | 35 |
| Athletes | 289 |
| Dates | 10–13 August |
The 2016 World University Karate Championships was the 10th edition of World University Karate Championships and took place in Braga, Portugal between August 10 and August 13, 2016. [1]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual kata | Hiroki Kubo | Mohammed El Hanni | William Geoffray |
| Peter Fabian | |||
| Team kata |  Japan Keita Nishihara Kazumasa Moto Ryuji Moto |  France Lucas Jeannot Ahmed Zemouri Enzo Montarello |  Spain Jose Manuel Carbonell Lopez Antonio Garcia Vargas Lorenzo Carios Marin Villalobos |
 Egypt Islam Hassan Zeyad Mohamed Ahmed Elswafy | |||
| Kumite −60 kg | Matias Gomez Garcia | Aly Smail | Sadriddin Saymatov |
| Maximiliano Larrosa | |||
| Kumite −67 kg | Steven Da Costa | Stefan Pokorny | Magdy Abdelazez |
| Barney Gill | |||
| Kumite −75 kg | Ali El-Sawy | Ken Nishimura | Dastonbek Otabolaev |
| Wei-Chieh Hsu | |||
| Kumite −84 kg | Mohamed Elkotby | Chun-Wei Wu | Jamaal Ismail Khalid Otto |
| Jessie Da Costa | |||
| Kumite +84 kg | Ljubisa Mihailovic | Arsen Megrabian | Ahmed Elasfar |
| Hocine Daikhi | |||
| Team kumite | Japan Naotaka Ishihama Kamaguchi Koki Masamichi Funahashi Eiki Onishi Yuta Yoshiya | Spain Pablo Arenas Zapata Raul Cuerva Mora Daniel Gomez Borge Matias Gomez Garcia Jagoba Vizuete Fernandez | Egypt Ahmed Elasfar Zeyad Mohamed Magdy Abdelazez Aly Ismail Islam Hassan Ali Elsawy Mohamed Elkotby |
 Algeria Mouad Achache Abdelatif Benkhaled Bilel Hareche Abdelmoumene Madi |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual kata | Misaki Tanaka | Sakura Kokumai | Randa Abdelaziz |
| Alexandra Feracci | |||
| Team kata | Spain Margarita Morata Martos Jessica Moreno Wilkinson Lidia Rodríguez Encabo | Portugal Ana Sofîa Cruz Rita Morgado Patricia Cardoso |  Czech Republic Barbora Kočtârovâ Simona Forstovâ Veronika Miškovâ |
| Egypt Randa Abdelaziz Nour Elswafy Shaimaa Solyman | |||
| Kumite −50 kg | Rocio Sanches Estepa | Miho Miyahara | Ku Tsui-ping |
| Bettina Plank | |||
| Kumite −55 kg | Emily Thouy | Simona Zaborska | Wen Tzu-yun |
| Aya Brahim | |||
| Kumite −61 kg | Giana Lotfy | Natasha Stefanovska | Yin Xiaoyan |
| Ayami Moriguchi | |||
| Kumite −68 kg | Alizée Agier | Alisa Buchinger | Maya Suzuki |
| Titta Keinänen | |||
| Kumite +68 kg | Natsumi Kawamura | Meltem Hocaoğlu | Amelia Jayne Harvey |
| Sohila Ahmed | |||
| Team kumite | Egypt Nada Mohamd Aisha Mohamed Hoda Moshraf |  Chinese Taipei Ching-Hsiu Kao |  Austria Amila Gojak Nathalie Reiter |
 Macedonia Sara Radichevska Monika Stefanovska Natasha Stefanovska Simona Zaborska |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 2 | Egypt (EGY) | 4 | 1 | 8 | 13 |
| 3 | France (FRA) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | Spain (ESP) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 |  Montenegro (MNE) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 7 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | North Macedonia (MKD) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 |  Morocco (MAR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Portugal (POR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Russia (RUS) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Turkey (TUR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 United States (USA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 14 | Algeria (ALG) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
 Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
 Uzbekistan (UZB) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 17 |  China (CHN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Finland (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 New Zealand (NZL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Slovakia (SVK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Uruguay (URU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (22 entries) | 16 | 16 | 32 | 64 | |
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