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| Host city |  Kobe, Japan |
|---|---|
| Organiser | FISU |
| Nations | 31 |
| Athletes | 229 |
| Dates | 19–22 July |
The 2018 World University Karate Championships was the 11th edition of World University Karate Championships and took place in Kobe, Japan between July 19 and July 22, 2018. [1]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual kata | Yuhei Horiba | Abolfazl Shahrjerdi | Emre Vefa Göktaş |
| Mattia Busato | |||
| Team kata | Japan |  Austria |  Poland |
 Iran | |||
| Kumite −60 kg | Eray Samdan | Saud Albasher | Ali Meskini |
| Kajith Kanagasingam | |||
| Kumite −67 kg | Francesco D'Onofrio | Soichiro Nakano | Mehdi Rahimi Nejad |
| Raul Cuerva Mora | |||
| Kumite −75 kg | Yusei Sakiyama | Lou Lebrun | Ammed Ezzat Momy ElSharaby |
| Luca Rettenbacher | |||
| Kumite −84 kg | Kamran Madani | Durham Mitchell | Faraj Alnashri |
| Alvin Karaqi | |||
| Kumite +84 kg | Saleh Abazari | Daiki Ando | Dnylson Jacquet |
| Somanroy M Arulveeran | |||
| Team kumite | Japan | Iran |  Saudi Arabia |
 France |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual kata | Natsuki Shimizu | Terryana D'Onofrio | Marta García Lozano |
| Laetitia Feracci | |||
| Team kata | Japan |  Spain |  Czech Republic |
 China | |||
| Kumite −50 kg | Miho Miyahara | Gu Shiau-shuang | Faezeh Chizari |
| Gema Morales Ozuna | |||
| Kumite −55 kg | Katayama Haname | Avishan Bagheri | Sara Heurtault |
| Jennifer Warling | |||
| Kumite −61 kg | Yuki Kujuro | Melika Ahadi | Coral Herrador Sánchez |
| Wei-Ning Hsu | |||
| Kumite −68 kg | Kanako Oryu | Laura Sivert | Maria Isabel Nieto Mejias |
| Behnoosh Najafi Ghaghelestani | |||
| Kumite +68 kg | Rosa Marie Liebold | Tzu-Hsuan Wen | Lora Ziller |
| Ayaka Saito | |||
| Team kumite | France | Spain | Austria |
| Japan |
| Pos | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan | 10 | 2 | 2 | 14 |
| 2 | Iran | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| 3 | France | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| 4 |  Italy | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 |  Turkey | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 |  Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 |  United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Spain | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 9 |  Chinese Taipei | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Austria | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 11 | Saudi Arabia | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 12 |  Australia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Czech Republic | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 |  Kosovo | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 |  Luxembourg | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 |  Malaysia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 18 | Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 16 | 16 | 32 | 64 |