Karate at the 2023 Pan American Games – Men's individual kata

Men's individual kata at the 2023 Pan American Games
Venue	Contact Sports Center
Dates	November 3
Competitors	8 from 8 nations
Medalists
Ariel Torres    United States   Cleiver Leocadio    Venezuela   Luca Impagnatiello    Argentina   Larry Aracena    Dominican Republic
«2019 2027»

The men's individual kata competition of the karate events at the 2023 Pan American Games was held on November 3 at the Contact Sports Center (Centro de Entrenamiento de los Deportes de Contacto) in Santiago, Chile. ^{[1] [2]}

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
November 3, 2023	11:00	Pool matches
November 3, 2023	16:24	Final

Results

The athletes with the two best scores of each pool advance to the semifinals. ^[3]

Pool A

Rk	Athlete	Pld	W	L	Pts.
1	Cleiver Leocadio  (VEN)	3	3	0	9
2	Mariano Wong  (PER)	3	2	1	6
3	Bruno Conde  (BRA)	3	1	2	3
4	Simón Luengo  (CHI)	3	0	3	0

	Score
Simón Luengo  (CHI)	37.70–40.20	Mariano Wong  (PER)
Bruno Conde  (BRA)	38.60–39.80	Cleiver Leocadio  (VEN)
Simón Luengo  (CHI)	36.90–39.50	Bruno Conde  (BRA)
Mariano Wong  (PER)	39.00–40.50	Cleiver Leocadio  (VEN)
Mariano Wong  (PER)	39.70–38.30	Bruno Conde  (BRA)
Simón Luengo  (CHI)	37.90–40.10	Cleiver Leocadio  (VEN)

Pool B

Rk	Athlete	Pld	W	L	Pts.
1	Ariel Torres  (USA)	3	3	0	9
2	Larry Aracena  (DOM)	3	2	1	6
3	Luca Impagnatiello  (ARG)	3	1	2	3
4	Ahkxel Tepal  (MEX)	3	0	3	0

	Score
Ahkxel Tepal  (MEX)	38.50–40.10	Larry Aracena  (DOM)
Luca Impagnatiello  (ARG)	39.50–41.60	Ariel Torres  (USA)
Ahkxel Tepal  (MEX)	37.90–38.40	Luca Impagnatiello  (ARG)
Larry Aracena  (DOM)	39.20–41.50	Ariel Torres  (USA)
Larry Aracena  (DOM)	40.30–40.10	Luca Impagnatiello  (ARG)
Ahkxel Tepal  (MEX)	38.00–41.80	Ariel Torres  (USA)

Finals

The results were as follows: ^[4]

	Gold medal match
	Cleiver Leocadio  (VEN)		40.10
	Ariel Torres  (USA)		42.60

	Bronze medal match
	Luca Impagnatiello  (ARG)		40.20
	Mariano Wong  (PER)		39.30
	Bronze medal match
	Bruno Conde  (BRA)		39.20
	Larry Aracena  (DOM)		39.70

References

1. "Venues". www.santiago2023.org. Santiago Organizing Committee for the 2023 Pan and Parapan American Games. Archived from the original on 18 December 2023. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
2. "Sport Calendar Pan American Games" (PDF). www.panamsports.org/. Panam Sports. 21 July 2022. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
3. "Karate Men's individual kata pool results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 21, 2023. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
4. "Karate Men's individual kata final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 21, 2023. Retrieved November 30, 2023.