Karate at the 2011 Pan American Games

Karate at the 2011 Pan American Games
Venue	San Rafael Gymnasium
Dates	October 27 – October 29
Competitors	80 from 20 nations
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The Karate competition of the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico were held at the San Rafael Gymnasium between October 27 and October 29. All the competitions was held in the kumite discipline. ^[1]

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Mexico)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Dominican Republic	2	3	0	5
2	Venezuela	2	0	3	5
3	Mexico*	1	3	2	6
4	United States	1	1	0	2
5	Brazil	1	0	4	5
6	Guatemala	1	0	1	2
7	Colombia	1	0	0	1
	Ecuador	1	0	0	1
9	Chile	0	1	4	5
10	Cuba	0	1	2	3
11	Peru	0	1	0	1
12	Canada	0	0	3	3
13	Netherlands Antilles	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		10	10	20	40

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
60 kg details	Andrés Rendón   Colombia	Norberto Sosa   Dominican Republic	Douglas Brose   Brazil
			Miguel Soffia   Chile
67 kg details	Daniel Viveros   Ecuador	Dennis Novo   Cuba	Daniel Carrillo   Mexico
			Jean Carlos Peña   Venezuela
75 kg details	Dionicio Gustavo   Dominican Republic	Thomas Scott   United States	Lester Zamora   Cuba
			David Dubó   Chile
84 kg details	Cesar Herrera   Venezuela	Jorge Pérez   Dominican Republic	Homero Morales   Mexico
			Sorin Alexadnru   Canada
+84 kg details	Angel Aponte   Venezuela	Alberto Ramirez   Mexico	Wellington Barbosa   Brazil
			Shaun Dhillon   Canada

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 kg details	Ana Villanueva   Dominican Republic	Gabriela Bruna   Chile	Jéssica Cândido   Brazil
			Cheili Gonzalez   Guatemala
55 kg details	Shannon Nishi   United States	Karina Diaz   Dominican Republic	Valéria Kumizaki   Brazil
			Jessy Reyes   Chile
61 kg details	Bertha Gutierrez   Mexico	Alexandra Grande   Peru	Daniela Suarez   Venezuela
			Marisca Verspaget   Netherlands Antilles
68 kg details	Lucélia Ribeiro   Brazil	Yadira Lira   Mexico	Yoly Guillen   Venezuela
			Yoandra Moreno   Cuba
+68 kg details	Maria Castellanos   Guatemala	Xhunashi Caballero   Mexico	Olivia Grant   Canada
			Claudia Vera   Chile

Schedule

All times are Central Daylight Time (UTC-5).

Day	Date	Start	Finish	Event	Phase
Day 14	Thursday October 27, 2011	10:00	14:30	Men's +84 kg, Women's +68 kg	Preliminaries
		16:00	17:20	Men's +84 kg, Women's +68 kg	Semifinals
		17:25	17:55	Men's +84 kg, Women's +68 kg	Finals
Day 15	Friday October 28, 2011	10:00	14:30	Men's 60 kg, 84 kg, Women's 50 kg, 68 kg	Preliminaries
		16:00	17:20	Men's 60 kg, 84 kg, Women's 50 kg, 68 kg	Semifinals
		17:25	18:30	Men's 60 kg, 84 kg, Women's 50 kg, 68 kg	Finals
Day 16	Saturday October 29, 2011	10:00	14:30	Men's 67 kg, 75 kg, Women's 55 kg, 61 kg	Preliminaries
		16:00	17:20	Men's 67 kg, 75 kg, Women's 55 kg, 61 kg	Semifinals
		17:25	18:30	Men's 67 kg, 75 kg, Women's 55 kg, 61 kg	Finals

Qualification

Main article: Karate at the 2011 Pan American Games – Qualification

Each nation is allowed enter a maximum of ten athletes (one per weight category). Mexico as host nation receives an entry in each weight category, while all other nations had to qualify through four qualifying tournaments. ^[1] The following nations qualified: ^[2]

NOC	Men					Women					Total
	60kg	67kg	75kg	84kg	84+kg	50kg	55kg	61kg	68kg	68+kg
Argentina					X			X		X	3
Brazil	X				X	X	X		X	X	6
Canada				X	X			X		X	4
Chile	X		X			X	X		X	X	6
Colombia	X			X		X					3
Costa Rica									X		1
Cuba		X	X				X		X		4
Dominican Republic	X	X	X	X		X	X	X	X		8
Ecuador		X	X				X				3
El Salvador	X	X	X	X	X						5
Guatemala						X	X			X	3
Mexico	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10
Netherlands Antilles								X			1
Panama								X			1
Peru	X	X	X	X				X			5
Puerto Rico					X					X	2
Trinidad and Tobago					X						1
United States	X	X	X			X	X		X		6
Uruguay				X							1
Venezuela		X		X	X	X		X	X	X	7
Total: 20 NOCs	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	80

References

1. Karate technical manual Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine
2. Karate technical manual