Karate at the 2025 World Games

Karate at the 2025 World Games
Venue	Jianyang Cultural and Sports Centre Gymnasium
Dates	8–9 August
No. of events	12
Competitors	95 from 37 nations
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The karate competition at the 2025 World Games took place from 8 to 9 August 2025, in Chengdu in China, at the Jianyang Cultural and Sports Centre Gymnasium. ^{[1] [2]} The discipline had twelve events, six for men and six for women.

Qualification

Main article: Karate at the 2025 World Games – Qualification

A total of eight karatekas qualified for each event. Three spots were given at the 2023 World Karate Championships, other three came from the WKF World Rankings. The remaining two were given to the host nation and a continental quota. ^[3]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (China)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	2	0	0	2
2	Japan	1	5	2	8
3	Ukraine	1	1	0	2
4	Iran	1	0	1	2
	Jordan	1	0	1	2
6	China*	1	0	0	1
	France	1	0	0	1
	Hong Kong	1	0	0	1
	Morocco	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
	Turkey	1	0	0	1
12	Croatia	0	2	1	3
13	Spain	0	1	1	2
14	Azerbaijan	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
	United States	0	1	0	1
17	Egypt	0	0	2	2
	Italy	0	0	2	2
19	Chile	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		12	12	12	36

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kata details	Kakeru Nishiyama   Japan	Ariel Torres   United States	Alessio Ghinami   Italy
Kumite 60 kg details	Eray Şamdan   Turkey	Hiromu Hashimoto   Japan	Christos-Stefanos Xenos   Greece
Kumite 67 kg details	Said Oubaya   Morocco	Yugo Kozaki   Japan	Abdelrahman Al-Masatfa   Jordan
Kumite 75 kg details	Enzo Berthon   France	Yusei Sakiyama   Japan	Abdalla Abdelaziz   Egypt
Kumite 84 kg details	Mohammad Al-Jafari   Jordan	Ivan Kvesić   Croatia	Rikito Shimada   Japan
Kumite +84 kg details	Ryzvan Talibov   Ukraine	Anđelo Kvesić   Croatia	Saleh Abazari   Iran

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kata details	Grace Lau   Hong Kong	Maho Ono   Japan	Paola García   Spain
Kumite 50 kg details	Sara Bahmanyar   Iran	Moldir Zhangbyrbay   Kazakhstan	Ema Sgardelli   Croatia
Kumite 55 kg details	Mia Bitsch   Germany	Anzhelika Terliuga   Ukraine	Valentina Toro   Chile
Kumite 61 kg details	Gong Li   China	Sarara Shimada   Japan	Noursin Ali   Egypt
Kumite 68 kg details	Elena Quirici   Switzerland	Irina Zaretska   Azerbaijan	Tsubasa Kama   Japan
Kumite +68 kg details	Johanna Kneer   Germany	María Torres   Spain	Clio Ferracuti   Italy

Participating nations

•   Algeria  (1)
•   Aruba  (1)
•   Australia  (2)
•   Azerbaijan  (1)
•   Brazil  (1)
•   Canada  (2)
•   Chile  (1)
•   China  (11)
•   Colombia  (1)
•   Croatia  (3)
•   Egypt  (6)
•   France  (5)
•   Germany  (3)
•   Greece  (2)
•   Hong Kong  (1)
•   Hungary  (1)
•   Individual Neutral Athletes  (1)
•   Indonesia  (1)
•   Iran  (3)
•   Italy  (5)
•   Japan  (9)
•   Jordan  (2)
•   Kazakhstan  (6)
•   Kuwait  (1)
•   Montenegro  (1)
•   Morocco  (2)
•   Netherlands  (1)
•   Slovakia  (1)
•   Saudi Arabia  (1)
•   Spain  (2)
•   Switzerland  (1)
•   Sweden  (1)
•   Tunisia  (1)
•   Turkey  (6)
•   Venezuela  (1)
•   Ukraine  (4)
•   United States  (3)

References

1. "Qualifications for TWG 2025 by sport, Chengdu (CHN)". theworldgames. 2 November 2023. Retrieved 2025-05-23.
2. "Venues World Games 2025". theworldgames. 28 May 2025. Retrieved 2025-05-28.
3. "World Karate Federation Chengdu 2025 World Games Qualification System" (PDF). wkf.net. Retrieved 10 September 2024.

External links

• The World Games 2025 Archived 2022-12-05 at the Wayback Machine
• World Karate Federation
• Results book