2008 World Karate Championships

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2008 World Karate Championships
2008 World Karate Championships logo.png
Host city Flag of Japan.svg Tokyo, Japan
Dates13–16 November
Main venue Nippon Budokan
  2006
2010  

The 2008 World Karate Championships are the 19th edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Tokyo, Japan from November 13 to November 16, 2008. [1]

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Medalists

Men

EventGoldSilverBronze
Individual kata Luca Valdesi
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Antonio Díaz
Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela
Vu Duc Minh Dack
Flag of France.svg  France
Mustafa Ibrahim
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt
Team kataFlag of France.svg  France
Julien Dupont
Ayoub Neghliz
Jonathan Plagnol
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Flag of Peru.svg  Peru
Jimmy Moreno
Akio Tamashiro
Hafid Zevallos
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Vincenzo Figuccio
Lucio Maurino
Luca Valdesi
Kumite −60 kg Danil Domdjoni
Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia
Darkhan Assadilov
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan
Hossein Rouhani
Flag of Iran.svg  Iran
Douglas Brose
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Kumite −65 kg George Kotaka
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Ádám Kovács
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
William Rollé
Flag of France.svg  France
Takuro Nihei
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Kumite −70 kg Rafael Aghayev
Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan
Tamer Abdelraouf
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt
Saeed Baghbani
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Shinji Nagaki
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Kumite −75 kg David Dubó
Flag of Chile.svg  Chile
Müslüm Baştürk
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
Mohamed Abdelrahman
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt
Ko Matsuhisa
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Kumite −80 kg Satoshi Ibuchi
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Islamutdin Eldaruchev
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
Hany Shakr
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt
Alibek Prenov
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan
Kumite +80 kg Stefano Maniscalco
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Ibrahim Gary
Flag of France.svg  France
Calum Robb
Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland
Jonathan Horne
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Kumite open Rafael Aghayev
Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan
Spyridon Margaritopoulos
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece
Stefano Maniscalco
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Gogita Arkania
Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia
Team kumiteFlag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
Okay Arpa
Yusuf Başer
Müslüm Baştürk
Zeki Demir
Yücel Dündoğdu
Murat Salih Kurnaz
Yaser Şahintekin
Flag of Serbia (2004-2010).svg  Serbia
Slobodan Bitević
Stefan Ivanović
Dimitrije Jerković
Miloš Jovanović
Vladan Rudić Vranić
Dejan Umičević
Miloš Živković
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Iván Leal
Adrián Martínez
Francisco Martínez
Óscar Martínez
Cristian Rodríguez
Antonio Sánchez
Óscar Vázquez

Women

EventGoldSilverBronze
Individual kata Nguyễn Hoàng Ngân
Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam
Sara Battaglia
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Kasuga Wakabayashi
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Marija Madžarević
Flag of Serbia (2004-2010).svg  Serbia
Team kataFlag of Japan.svg  Japan Flag of France.svg  France
Clotilde Boulanger
Céline Chevalier
Sonia Fiuza
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Sara Battaglia
Viviana Bottaro
Samantha Piccolo
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Fátima de Acuña
Ruth Jiménez
Almudena Muñoz
Kumite −53 kg Natsuki Fujiwara
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Kora Knühmann
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Gülderen Çelik
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
Elena Ponomareva
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
Kumite −60 kg Maria Sobol
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
Nassim Varasteh
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Katarina Strika
Flag of Serbia (2004-2010).svg  Serbia
Vildan Doğan
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
Kumite +60 kg Tiffany Fanjat
Flag of France.svg  France
Elisa Au-Fonseca
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
Evgenia Podborodnikova
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia
Cristina Feo
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Kumite open Yuka Sato
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Gloria Casanova
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Ema Aničić
Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia
Eva Tulejová-Medveďová
Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia
Team kumiteFlag of Germany.svg  Germany
Yasmina Benadda
Kora Knühmann
Silvia Sperner
Maria Weiß
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Gloria Casanova
Irene Colomar
Cristina Feo
Carmen Vicente
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Selene Guglielmi
Roberta Minet
Laura Pasqua
Greta Vitelli
Flag of France.svg  France
Nadège Ait-Ibrahim
Tiffany Fanjat
Alexandra Recchia
Ruth Soufflet

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Japan)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of Japan.svg  Japan *4149
2Flag of France.svg  France 2237
3Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 2147
4Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Azerbaijan 2002
5Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 1124
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 1124
7Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1113
8Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1102
9Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 1012
10Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 1001
Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam 1001
12Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 0235
13Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 0145
14Flag of Serbia (2004-2010).svg  Serbia 0123
15Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 0112
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 0112
17Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 0101
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 0101
Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 0101
20Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 0011
Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia 0011
Flag of Iran.svg  Iran 0011
Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 0011
Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland 0011
Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia 0011
Totals (25 entries)17173468

Participating nations

888 athletes from 97 nations competed.

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