2025 World Karate Championships

27th Karate World Championships
Venue	Cairo Stadium Indoor Halls Complex
Location	Cairo, Egypt
Dates	27–30 November
Competitors	378 from 86 nations
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The 2025 World Karate Championships was held from 27 to 30 November 2025 in Cairo, Egypt with qualification for first time. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Egypt)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Egypt*	3	0	1	4
2	Iran	1	1	1	3
	Italy	1	1	1	3
	Japan	1	1	1	3
	Turkey	1	1	1	3
6	Jordan	1	0	1	2
	Uzbekistan	1	0	1	2
8	France	1	0	0	1
	Germany	1	0	0	1
	Hong Kong	1	0	0	1
11	Kazakhstan	0	1	2	3
12	Ukraine	0	1	1	2
13	China	0	1	0	1
	Kosovo	0	1	0	1
	Malaysia	0	1	0	1
	Morocco	0	1	0	1
	Puerto Rico	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia	0	1	0	1
19	Greece	0	0	2	2
20	Algeria	0	0	1	1
	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Azerbaijan	0	0	1	1
	Chile	0	0	1	1
	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	England	0	0	1	1
	Saudi Arabia	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela	0	0	1	1
	World Karate Federation-1	0	0	1	1
	World Karate Federation-2	0	0	1	1
Totals (31 entries)		12	12	24	48

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kata details	Kakeru Nishiyama   Japan	Alessio Ghinami   Italy	Ariel Torres   United States
			Enes Özdemir   Turkey
Kumite −60 kg details	Eray Şamdan   Turkey	Islam Selmani   Kosovo	Christos-Stefanos Xenos   Greece
			Hiromu Hashimoto   Japan
Kumite −67 kg details	Afeef Ghaith   Jordan	Said Oubaya   Morocco	Abdul Vakhkhob Rashidov   Uzbekistan
			Didar Amirali   Kazakhstan
Kumite −75 kg details	Abdalla Abdelaziz   Egypt	Andrii Zaplitnyi   Ukraine	Ernest Sharafutdinov World Karate Federation-1
			Suren Harutyunyan   Armenia
Kumite −84 kg details	Youssef Badawy   Egypt	Hasan Arslan   Turkey	Mohammad Al-Jafari   Jordan
			Ivan Kvesić   Croatia
Kumite +84 kg details	Matteo Avanzini   Italy	Saleh Abazari   Iran	Sanad Sufyani   Saudi Arabia
			Ivan Kudzinau World Karate Federation-2

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kata details	Grace Lau   Hong Kong	Maho Ono   Japan	Terryana D'Onofrio   Italy
			Aya Hesham   Egypt
Kumite −50 kg details	Gulshan Alimardanova   Uzbekistan	Shahmalarani Chandran   Malaysia	Yorgelis Salazar   Venezuela
			Sara Bahmanyar   Iran
Kumite −55 kg details	Ahlam Youssef   Egypt	Nina Kvasnicová   Slovakia	Anzhelika Terliuga   Ukraine
			Louiza Abouriche   Algeria
Kumite −61 kg details	Atousa Golshadnejad   Iran	Gong Li   China	Assel Kanay   Kazakhstan
			Wafa Mahjoub   Tunisia
Kumite −68 kg details	Thalya Sombé   France	Janessa Fonseca   Puerto Rico	Anastasia Velozo   Chile
			Irina Zaretska   Azerbaijan
Kumite +68 kg details	Johanna Kneer   Germany	Sofya Berultseva   Kazakhstan	Rochelle Walters   England
			Kyriaki Kydonaki   Greece

Participating nations

378 athletes from 88 nations participated:

1.   Albania (2)
2.   Algeria (11)
3.   Angola (3)
4.   Argentina (2)
5.   Armenia (2)
6.   Aruba (1)
7.   Australia (12)
8.   Austria (3)
9.   Azerbaijan (6)
10.   Belgium (6)
11.   Benin (1)
12.   Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)
13.   Brazil (6)
14.   Bulgaria (2)
15.   Burkina Faso (2)
16.   Burundi (2)
17.   Cameroon (2)
18.   Canada (4)
19.   Chile (9)
20.   China (4)
21.   Chinese Taipei (5)
22.   Colombia (6)
23.   Croatia (5)
24.   Czech Republic (2)
25.   Dominican Republic (4)
26.   Ecuador (4)
27.   Egypt (12)
28.   El Salvador (2)
29.   England (2)
30.   France (10)
31.   Georgia (4)
32.   Germany (8)
33.   Greece (9)
34.   Guatemala (5)
35.   Guinea (1)
36.   Hong Kong (5)
37.   Hungary (2)
38.   India (5)
39.   Iran (10)
40.   Italy (12)
41.   Japan (12)
42.   Jordan (5)
43.   Kazakhstan (8)
44.   Kosovo (3)
45.   Kuwait (2)
46.   Kyrgyzstan (1)
47.   Latvia (2)
48.   Libya (2)
49.   Luxembourg (2)
50.   Malaysia (3)
51.   Mexico (4)
52.   Moldova (1)
53.   Montenegro (4)
54.   Morocco (8)
55.   Nepal (2)
56.   Netherlands (5)
57.   New Zealand (6)
58.   Nigeria (5)
59.   North Macedonia (2)
60.   Philippines (1)
61.   Poland (3)
62.   Portugal (6)
63.   Puerto Rico (1)
64.   Romania (4)
65.   Rwanda (1)
66.   Saudi Arabia (5)
67.   Scotland (1)
68.   Senegal (2)
69.   Serbia (3)
70.   Singapore (1)
71.   Slovakia (6)
72.   Slovenia (1)
73.   South Africa (4)
74.   South Korea (1)
75.   Spain (6)
76.   Sweden (5)
77.   Switzerland (4)
78.   Thailand (1)
79.   Tunisia (5)
80.   Turkey (9)
81.   Ukraine (9)
82.   United States (6)
83.   Uzbekistan (8)
84.   Venezuela (4)
85. WKF Team 1 (6)
86. WKF Team 2 (3)

Para Karate

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Egypt)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Egypt*	3	0	1	4
2	Italy	1	2	1	4
3	Croatia	1	0	1	2
4	France	1	0	0	1
	Hungary	1	0	0	1
6	Japan	0	1	1	2
	Spain	0	1	1	2
	Turkey	0	1	1	2
9	Slovakia	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
11	Germany	0	0	2	2
12	Azerbaijan	0	0	1	1
	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		7	7	13	27

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-10	Nohan Dudon   France	Imai Toshihiro   Japan	José Carreón   Mexico
			Dorin Alexe   Romania
K-21	Ahmed El-Beltagy   Egypt	Carlos Huertas   Spain	Albert Singer   Germany
			Mike Richter   Germany
K-22	Mattia Allesina   Italy	Patrick Buwalda   Italy	Stipe Barić   Croatia
			Abdelrahman El-Sherif   Egypt
K-30	Abdelaziz Abouelnaga   Egypt	Berkay Uslu   Turkey	Pietro Merlo   Italy
			Vidadi Khaligov   Azerbaijan

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-10	Rewan Alamir   Egypt	Marwa Hasany   Egypt	Aiko Kogure   Japan
			Lyazzat Zhussupova   Kazakhstan
K-21	Olívia Kákosy   Hungary	Federica Yakymashko   Italy	Lucía Sánchez   Spain
			Judy Halawa   Egypt
K-22	Daniela Topić   Croatia	Lucia Vlková   Slovakia	Natalie Olson   Canada
			Salma Alaaeldin Ebrahim   Egypt
K-30	Fatma Mahmoud   Egypt	Knarik Airapetian   Ukraine	Nesrin Cavadzade   Turkey
			Jana Radwan   Egypt

Participating nations

115 athletes from 31 nations participated:

1.   Australia (1)
2.   Azerbaijan (5)
3.   Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
4.   Canada (3)
5.   Chile (7)
6.   Croatia (7)
7.   Czech Republic (1)
8.   Egypt (24)
9.   England (1)
10.   France (5)
11.   Germany (4)
12.   Greece (1)
13.   Hong Kong (1)
14.   Hungary (9)
15.   India (2)
16.   Iran (6)
17.   Italy (6)
18.   Japan (3)
19.   Kazakhstan (3)
20.   Mexico (1)
21.   Netherlands (1)
22.   Portugal (1)
23.   Romania (1)
24.   Saudi Arabia (2)
25.   Slovakia (1)
26.   Slovenia (1)
27.   Spain (4)
28.   Turkey (2)
29.   Ukraine (1)
30.   United States (6)
31. WKF Team 1 (4)

References

1. "WKF Congress celebrates unity and bright future of Karate". WKF. 24 October 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
2. "2025 World Senior Individual Karate Championships Set for Cairo". WKF. 21 November 2025. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
3. "Competition Programme" (PDF). WKF . Retrieved 25 November 2025.
4. "World Karate Championships". WKF . Retrieved 30 November 2025.

External links

• World Karate Federation
• Results book – Karate
• Results book – Para Karate