Karate at the 2018 South American Games

Karate at the 2018 South American Games
Venue	Coliseo Suramericano
Location	Cochabamba
Dates	27–29 May
Competitors	100 from 12 nations
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There were twelve karate events at the 2018 South American Games in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Six for men and six for women. The events were held between May 27 and 29 at the Coliseo Suramericano. ^[1] The top 2 athletes in each event (minus the host nation Peru, Colombia and Venezuela, whose athletes will qualify through the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games) qualifying them to compete at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. ^[2]

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Bolivia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Venezuela  (VEN)	4	3	2	9
2	Peru  (PER)	2	2	4	8
3	Brazil  (BRA)	1	2	4	7
4	Chile  (CHI)	1	1	3	5
	Colombia  (COL)	1	1	3	5
	Ecuador  (ECU)	1	1	3	5
7	Argentina  (ARG)	1	0	4	5
8	Uruguay  (URU)	1	0	0	1
9	Panama  (PAN)	0	1	0	1
	Paraguay  (PAR)	0	1	0	1
11	Bolivia  (BOL)*	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		12	12	24	48

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
60 kg	Daiver Baez   Uruguay	Jovanni Martínez   Venezuela	Andrés Rendón   Colombia
			Agustin Farah   Argentina
67 kg	Andrés Madera   Venezuela	Vinicius Figueira   Brazil	Camilo Velozo Zuñiga   Chile
			José Ramírez   Colombia
75 kg	Juan Landázuri   Colombia	Hernani Verissimo   Brazil	José Valdivia   Peru
			Jhosed Ortuño   Venezuela
84 kg [3]	Freddy Valera   Venezuela	Israel Aco   Peru	Esteban Leon   Ecuador
			Mohamed Chavez   Bolivia
+84 kg	Rodrigo Macchiavello   Chile	Diego Lenis   Colombia	Franklin Mina   Ecuador
			Germán Pérez   Argentina
Individual Kata	Antonio Díaz   Venezuela	Héctor Cención   Panama	Mariano Wong   Peru
			Walter Carrizo   Argentina

• In the 75kg category, Chilean German Antonio qualified as the second eligible athlete for Lima 2019.

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 kg	Yamila Benitez   Argentina	Leyla Amarilla   Paraguay	Giovanna Feroldi   Brazil
			Aurimer Campos   Venezuela
55 kg	Valéria Kumizaki   Brazil	Bárbara Pérez   Venezuela	Tihare Aros   Chile
			Hiromi Sánchez   Peru
61 kg	Jacqueline Factos   Ecuador	Alexandra Grande   Peru	Érica dos Santos   Brazil
			Carolina Videla   Chile
68 kg	Marianth Cuervo   Venezuela	Susana Li   Chile	Gabrielle Sepe   Brazil
			Milagros Alfaro   Peru
+68 kg	Isabel Aco   Peru	Valeria Marmolejo   Ecuador	Shanee Torres   Colombia
			Valentina Castro   Argentina
Individual Kata	Ingrid Aranda   Peru	Valerya Hernández   Venezuela	Nicole Mota   Brazil
			Cristina Arcos   Ecuador

Athletes in bold have qualified to compete at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. Both Venezuela and Colombia elected to use the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games as their qualifying event and thus are ineligible to qualify athletes here.

See also

• Karate at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

References

1. "Karate". www.cochabamba2018.bo/. Cochabama 2018 Organizing Committee for the 2018 South American Games. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
2. "Qualification System manual" (PDF). www.panamsports.org/. Pan American Sports Organization. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
3. "Mohamed Yussuf Dames Chávez logra bronce en karate en los XI Juegos Suramericanos" [Mohamed Yussuf Dames Chávez wins bronze in karate at the 11th South American Games]. www.mindeportes.gob.bo/ (in Spanish). Bolivian Ministry of sports. 28 May 2018. Archived from the original on 16 July 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2018.