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World Open Karate Championship is the largest competition in Kyokushin Karate. This tournament is arranged every fourth year in Tokyo.
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World Open Karate Championship is the largest competition in Kyokushin Karate. This tournament is arranged every fourth year in Tokyo.
All world open tournaments operate under knockdown karate rules which involve standup bareknuckle fighting with basically no protection. The more characteristical rules in knockdown karate compared to other styles are that you are not allowed to punch in the face and a point system that only counts hits that actually "hurt" the opponent. This makes knockdown fighting very physical but at the same time quite safe considering that there are very few hits to the head. There can be slight variances in the rules between the different organizations responsible for a tournaments although the basics are the same. The rules have also been modified over the years. [1] [2] [3]
Normally knockdown rules include:
Illegal techniques are
Read more about various full contact karate rules
Between 1975 and 1991, the World Open Tournament was organized by IKO (International Karate Organization Kyokushinkaikan), led by Mas Oyama. The event was held five times:
| Place | 1st World Open | 2nd World Open | 3rd World Open | 4th World Open | 5th World Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Katsuaki Satō  | Makoto Nakamura | Makoto Nakamura | Akiyoshi Matsui | Kenji Midori |
| 2 | Hatsuo Royama | Keiji Sanpei | Keiji Sanpei | Andy Hug  | Akira Masuda |
| 3 | Joko Nimoniya | Willie Williams  | Akiyoshi Matsui | Akira Masuda | Hiroki Kurosawa |
| 4 | Daigo Oishi | Takashi Azuma | Ademir Da Costa  | Michael Thompson  | Jean Riviere |
| 5 | Toshikazu Sato | Howard Collins | Yasuto Onishi | Ademir Da Costa | Kenji Yamaki |
| 6 | Takashi Azuma | Bernard Creton | Nicholas Da Costa | Hiroki Kurosawa | Yutaka Ishii |
| 7 | Charles W. Martin | Ceno Maxer  | Keizo Tahara | Yasuhiro Shichinohe | Yasuhiro Shichinohe |
| 8 | Frank Clark | Koichi Kawabata | Dave Greaves | Nicholas Da Costa | Johnny Kleyn  |
After the death of Mas Oyama in 1994, IKO split up into several factions. The World Open Tournament has continued to be held but organised in parallel by several organizations.
From 1995, the World Open Tournament has been organized by IKO1 [5] led by Shokei Matsui.
| Place | 6th World Open | 7th World Open | 8th World Open | 9th World Open | 10th World Open | 11th World Open | 12th World Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenji Yamaki | Francisco Filho | Hitoshi Kiyama | Ewerton Teixeira | Tariel Nikoleishvili  | Zahari Damyanov  | Mikio Ueda |
| 2 | Hajime Kazumi | Hajime Kazumi | Sergey Plekhanov | Jan Soukup  | Ewerton Teixeira | Djema Belkhodja  | Aleksandr Eremenko |
| 3 | Francisco Filho | Alexander Pichkunov | Ewerton Teixeira | Artur Oganasian  | Goderzi Kapanadze | Darmen Sadvokasov | Andrei Luzin |
| 4 | Garry O'Neill  | Glaube Feitosa | Glaube Feitosa | Darmen Sadvokasov | Makoto Akaishi | Kiril Kochnev | Yuta Takahashi |
| 5 | Nicholas Pettas  | Nicholas Pettas | Lechi Kurbanov | Andrey Stepin | Zahari Damyanov | Ashot Zarinyan | Konstantin Kovalenko |
| 6 | Hiroki Kurosawa | Yasuhiro Kimura | Yasuhiro Kimura | Alejandro Navarro  | Nikolai Davydov | Mikio Ueda | Ryunosuke Hoshi |
| 7 | Luciano Basile | Ryuta Noji | Sergey Osipov | Eduardo Tanaka | Alexander Yeremenko  | Ivan Mezentsev | Igor Zagainov |
| 8 | Glaube Feitosa | Ryu Narushima | Hiroyuki Kidachi | Tatsuya Murata | Ilya Karpenko | Shoki Arata | Shoki Arata |
From 1996, the World Open Tournament has also been organized by WKO (World Karate Organization Shinkyokushinkai) [6] led by Kenji Midori.
| Place | 6th World Open | 7th World Open | 8th World Open | 9th World Open | 10th World Open | 11th World Open | 12th World Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norichika Tsukamoto | Toru Okamoto | Kunihiro Suzuki | Takayuki Tsukagoshi | Norichika Tsukamoto | Yuji Shimamoto | Yuji Shimamoto |
| 2 | Kunihiro Suzuki | Muzaffer Bacak  | Yuichiro Osaka | Donatas Imbras  | Tsutomo Muruyama | Kembu Iriki | Maciej Mazur  |
| 3 | Kou Tanigawa | Sotoshi Niiho | Takayuki Tsukakoshi | Valeri Dimitrov | Roman Nesterenko | Lukas Kubilius | Daiki Kato |
| 4 | Tsuyoshi Murase | Kouji Abiko | Valeri Dimitrov | Roman Nesterenko | Lukas Kubilius | Shota Maeda | Valeri Dimitrov |
| 5 | Akira Masuda | Kunihiro Suzuki | Francisco Jose Carpena | Maxim Shevchenko | Brian Jakobsen | Kazufumi Shimamoto | Kosei Ochiai |
| 6 | Hiroyuki Miake | Tadashi Ishihara | Muzaffer Bacak | Darius Gudauskas | Andrey Materov | Nazar Nasirov | Eventas Guzauskas |
| 7 | Toru Okamoto | Yuichiro Osaka | Norichika Tsukamoto | Norichika Tsukamoto | Yuji Shimamoto | Edgard Sečinski | Yuto Eguchi |
| 8 | Kouji Abiko | Viktor Karasyuk | Daniel Torok  | Denis Grigoriev | Yevgeniy Andrushko | Maciej Mazur | Ilya Yakovlev  |
From 2000, the World Open Tournament has also been organized by IKO3 [7] led by Yoshikazu Matsushima .
| Place | 6th World Open | 7th World Open | 8th World Open | 9th World Open | 10th World Open | 11th World Open | 12th World Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ? | Thorsten Domke | Hadi Azikhani  | Anzor Shikhabakhov | Reza Goodary | Ali Orace | Mikio Ueda |
| 2 | ? | Bela Haszmann | Hassan Nazemi | Issa Parvari | Artur Tilov | Sajjad Mohajeri | Aleksandr Eremenko |
| 3 | ? | Raoul Strikker  | Arash Sharifi | Sajad Heidari | Aleksander Karshigeev | Denis Morozevich | Andrei Luzin |
| 4 | ? | Igor Struikhim | Haidar Mohammed  | Sergey Doronin | Aleksander Ibragimov | Mehrdad Ramzani | Yuta Takahashi |
| 5 | ? | Alexander Sitnikov | Andrey Noskov | Rasim Samedov | Amin Azimi | Mdliduzi Mseleku | Konstantin Kovalenko |
| 6 | ? | Diego Beltran | Anatoly Boronnikov | Saeid Sefari | Naser Karami | Denys Maxymov | Ryunosuke Hoshi |
| 7 | ? | Yevgeny Pechenin | Eissa Oghani | Gia Gvenetadze  | Sajjad Heidarinaghdali | Thondwaylakosi Ndlovu | Igor Zagainov |
| 8 | ? | Kiko Muira | Alexander Ibragimov | Laszlo Hacsko | Amir Reza Moradian | Reza Goodary | Shoki Arata |
From 2004, the World Open Tournament has also been organized by All Japan Kyokushin Union (Kyokushin Rengōkai) [9] led by Yasuhiro Shichinohe .
They decided though to renumber the event starting with World Open Tournament 1. Also note that the second event in 2008 was organized in weight categories and is therefore not presented here. [10]
| Place | 1st World Open | 2nd World Open | 3rd World Open | 4th World Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Masaake Shimajiri | several | Takuma Koketsu | Yuya Nagata |
| 2 | Anzor Shikhabakhov | several | Jonathan Tineo | Timur Raiymbekov |
| 3 | Alexander Ibragiumov | several | Kevin Wiklund  | Yudai Ishimine |
| 4 | Jiri Onoue | several | Yuhei Ashitaka | Shi Shigematsu |
| 5 | Hiroshi Sugiyama | several | Akihito Teruya | Yasumichi Kikuyama |
| 6 | Yasumichi Kikuyama | several | Jonathan Redondo | Akihito Teruya |
| 7 | Takeshi Miyagi | several | Masaru Sato | Kim Jong Kil |
| 8 | Timofei Tsyganov | several | Syota Yamaguchi | Yuhei Ashitaka |
Results to be added
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