Karate at the 2019 Pan American Games

Karate at the 2019 Pan American Games
Karate pictogram
Venue	Polideportivo Villa El Salvador
Dates	August 9–11, 2019
Competitors	132
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Karate competitions at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru were held between August 9 and 11, 2019 at the Polideportivo Villa El Salvador, which also hosted the gymnastics competitions. ^[1]

14 medal events were contested. Ten of these events were in kumite (five per gender). A further four events (two per gender) in kata were contested, after the Panamsports added them to the sports program in March 2017. This marked the first time kata events were held at the Pan American Games since 2003 in Santo Domingo. ^[2] A total of 132 athletes qualified to compete at the games. ^[3]

The top three medallists (in order of gold, silver then bronze) not already qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics according to the Olympic Standings as of April 6, 2020, qualified for the said games. ^[4]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Peru)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	5	1	1	7
2	Dominican Republic	3	1	3	7
3	Venezuela	2	2	4	8
4	Peru*	2	0	4	6
5	Brazil	1	2	4	7
6	Chile	1	2	1	4
7	Mexico	0	4	2	6
8	Canada	0	2	0	2
9	Colombia	0	0	2	2
	Guatemala	0	0	2	2
11	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Cuba	0	0	1	1
	Panama	0	0	1	1
	Uruguay	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		14	14	27	55

Medallists

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata details	Antonio Díaz   Venezuela	Ariel Torres Gutierrez   United States	Mariano Wong   Peru
			Héctor Cención   Panama
Team kata details	Peru John Trebejo Oliver del Castillo Carlos Lam	Mexico Waldo Ramírez Diego Rosales Jesús Leonardo Rodríguez	Brazil Guilherme Silva Lucas Santos Victor Mota
			Argentina Martín Juiz Luca Impagnatiello Sebastián González
60 kg details	Joaquín González   Chile	Douglas Brose   Brazil	Maximiliano Larrosa   Uruguay
			Jovanni Martínez   Venezuela
67 kg details	Andrés Madera   Venezuela	Camilo Velozo   Chile	Deivis Ferreras   Dominican Republic
			Vinícius Figueira   Brazil
75 kg details	Thomas Scott   United States	Hernani Veríssimo   Brazil	Allan Maldonado   Guatemala
			Anderson Soriano   Dominican Republic
84 kg details [a]	Kamran Madani   United States	Alan Ever Cuevas   Mexico	Freddy Valera   Venezuela
+84 kg details	Brian Irr   United States	Daniel Gaysinsky   Canada	Rodrigo Rojas   Chile
			Diego Lenis   Colombia

• ^{Men's 84 kg} Carlos Sinisterra of Colombia originally won the gold medal, but he was disqualified for doping violations.

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata details	Sakura Kokumai   United States	María Dimitrova   Dominican Republic	Andrea Armada   Venezuela
			Ingrid Aranda   Peru
Team kata details	Dominican Republic María Dimitrova Franchel Velázquez Sasha Rodríguez	Mexico Cinthia de la Rúe Pamela Contreras Victoria Cruz	Brazil Carolaini Pereira Sabrina Pereira Izabel Cardoso
			Peru Saida Salcedo Sol Romani Rosa Almarza
50 kg details	Shannon Nishi   United States	Alicia Hernández   Mexico	Cheili González   Guatemala
			Jéssica de Paula   Brazil
55 kg details	Valéria Kumizaki   Brazil	Kathryn Campbell   Canada	Baurelys Torres   Cuba
			Paula Flores   Mexico
61 kg details	Alexandra Grande   Peru	Claudymar Garcés   Venezuela	Karina Díaz   Dominican Republic
			Xhunashi Caballero   Mexico
68 kg details	Tanya Rodríguez   Dominican Republic	Susana Li   Chile	Wendy Mosquera   Colombia
			Marianth Cuervo   Venezuela
+68 kg details	Pamela Rodríguez   Dominican Republic	Omaira Molina   Venezuela	Cirrus Lingl   United States
			Isabel Aco   Peru

Qualification

Main article: Karate at the 2019 Pan American Games – Qualification

A total of 132 karatekas qualified to compete. Each nation entered a maximum of 18 athletes (nine per gender). There were eight athletes qualified in each individual event, along with six teams in the kata team events. This consisted of a maximum of one athlete in the individual events (12), and one group of three in each kata team event (six). The host nation, Peru, automatically qualified the maximum number of athletes (18). The rest of the spots were awarded across four qualification tournaments. ^[3]

See also

• Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics

References

1. "Pan American Schedule" (PDF). www.lima2019.pe. Lima Organizing Committee for the 2019 Pan and Parapan American Games (COPAL). 13 June 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
2. "Notice to visitors :Pan American Games Lima 2019". www.pkfkarate.com/. Panamerican Karate Federation. 4 March 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
3. "Qualification System manual" (PDF). www.panamsports.org/. Pan American Sports Organization. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
4. "World Karate Federation (WKF) Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Tokyo 2020" (PDF). www.wkf.net/. World Karate Federation (WKF). 9 May 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2018.

External links

• Results book