2014 World Karate Championships

2014 World Karate Championships

Host city	Bremen, Germany
Dates	5–9 November
Main venue	ÖVB Arena
Website	http://karate2014.de/

The 2014 World Karate Championships were the 22nd edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Bremen, Germany from November 5 to November 9, 2014.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Ryo Kiyuna Japan	Ilja Smorguner Germany	Vu Duc Minh Dack France
			Antonio Díaz Venezuela
Team kata	Spain José Carbonell Damián Quintero Francisco Salazar	Egypt Ibrahim Magdy Ahmed Ashraf Mohamed Hamdy	France Vu Duc Minh Dack William Geoffray Rémi Martorana
			Malaysia Thomson Hoe Emmanuel Leong Leong Tze Wai
Kumite −60 kg	Douglas Brose Brazil	Geoffrey Berens Netherlands	Evgeny Plakhutin Russia
			Amir Mehdizadeh Iran
Kumite −67 kg	William Rollé France	Magdy Mamdouh Egypt	Vinícius Figueira Brazil
			Kujtim Bajrami Switzerland
Kumite −75 kg	Ryuichi Tani Japan	Luigi Busà Italy	Stanislav Horuna Ukraine
			Noah Bitsch Germany
Kumite −84 kg	Gogita Arkania Georgia	Ryutaro Araga Japan	Gökhan Gündüz Turkey
			Mohamed El-Kotby Egypt
Kumite +84 kg	Enes Erkan Turkey	Sajjad Ganjzadeh Iran	Admir Zukan Bosnia and Herzegovina
			Jagoba Vizuete Spain
Team kumite	Iran Saeid Ahmadi Bahman Askari Sajjad Ganjzadeh Ebrahim Hassanbeigi Saman Heidari Zabihollah Pourshab Iman Sanchouli	Germany Andreas Bachmann Noah Bitsch Mehmet Bolat Oliver Henning Jonathan Horne Heinrich Leistenschneider Nika Tsurtsumia	Turkey Uğur Aktaş Erman Eltemur Enes Erkan Gökhan Gündüz Rıdvan Kaptan Yaser Şahintekin Serkan Yağcı
			Japan Ryutaro Araga Rikiya Iimura Masaya Ishizuka Hideyoshi Kagawa Hiroto Shinohara Ryuichi Tani Daisuke Watanabe

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Kiyou Shimizu Japan	Sandy Scordo France	Yaiza Martín Spain
			Jasmin Bleul Germany
Team kata	Germany Jasmin Bleul Christine Heinrich Sophie Wachter	Japan Suzuka Kashioka Yoko Kimura Miku Morioka	Italy Sara Battaglia Viviana Bottaro Michela Pezzetti
			Iran Mahsa Afsaneh Najmeh Ghazizadeh Elnaz Taghipour
Kumite −50 kg	Serap Özçelik Turkey	Duygu Buğur Germany	Rocío Sánchez Spain
			Alexandra Recchia France
Kumite −55 kg	Sara Cardin Italy	Emily Thouy France	Miki Kobayashi Japan
			Jana Bitsch Germany
Kumite −61 kg	Giana Farouk Egypt	Syakilla Salni Malaysia	Laura Pasqua Italy
			Mayumi Someya Japan
Kumite −68 kg	Alizée Agier France	Gitte Brunstad Norway	Irina Zaretska Ukraine
			Alisa Buchinger Austria
Kumite +68 kg	Shymaa Abou-El-Yazed Egypt	Hamideh Abbasali Iran	Ayumi Uekusa Japan
			Laura Palacio Spain
Team kumite	Egypt Shymaa Abou-El-Yazed Yassmin Hamdy Giana Farouk Fatma Al-Zahraa	France Nadège Aït-Ibrahim Leïla Heurtault Lucie Ignace Alexandra Recchia	Japan Natsumi Kawamura Miki Kobayashi Mayumi Someya Ayumi Uekusa
			Turkey Buse Avcu Merve Çoban Meltem Hocaoğlu Serap Özçelik

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	3	2	5	10
2	Egypt	3	2	1	6
3	France	2	3	3	8
4	Turkey	2	0	3	5
5	Germany	1	3	3	7
6	Iran	1	2	2	5
7	Italy	1	1	2	4
8	Spain	1	0	4	5
9	Brazil	1	0	1	2
10	Georgia	1	0	0	1
11	Malaysia	0	1	1	2
12	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
	Norway	0	1	0	1
14	Ukraine	0	0	2	2
15	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	1	1
	Russia	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		16	16	32	64

Participating nations

887 athletes from 116 nations competed.

• Albania (4)
• Algeria (10)
• Argentina (5)
• Armenia (2)
• Australia (7)
• Austria (10)
• Azerbaijan (12)
• Bahrain (2)
• Belarus (12)
• Belgium (11)
• Belize (1)
• Bolivia (1)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (12)
• Botswana (6)
• Brazil (15)
• Bulgaria (7)
• Canada (14)
• Chad (4)
• Chile (13)
• China (11)
• Chinese Taipei (4)
• Colombia (11)
• Congo (6)
• Croatia (16)
• Curaçao (4)
• Cyprus (2)
• Czech Republic (10)
• Denmark (12)
• Dominican Republic (12)
• Ecuador (6)
• Egypt (16)
• El Salvador (2)
• England (14)
• Estonia (4)
• Fiji (2)
• Finland (10)
• France (16)
• Gabon (6)
• Georgia (5)
• Germany (15)
• Greece (12)
• Guatemala (6)
• Guinea (2)
• Hong Kong (13)
• Hungary (14)
• Iceland (4)
• India (14)
• Indonesia (5)
• Iran (16)
• Iraq (7)
• Ireland (10)
• Israel (7)
• Italy (13)
• Japan (16)
• Jordan (3)
• Kazakhstan (13)
• Kuwait (7)
• Latvia (7)
• Lebanon (2)
• Luxembourg (7)
• Macau (8)
• Macedonia (9)
• Madagascar (2)
• Malaysia (9)
• Mali (2)
• Mexico (9)
• Moldova (2)
• Montenegro (8)
• Morocco (8)
• Myanmar (1)
• Netherlands (7)
• Nepal (8)
• New Zealand (9)
• Nicaragua (2)
• Northern Ireland (1)
• Norway (4)
• Pakistan (1)
• Palestine (1)
• Paraguay (3)
• Peru (11)
• Philippines (4)
• Poland (13)
• Portugal (6)
• Qatar (4)
• Romania (14)
• Russia (15)
• Rwanda (3)
• San Marino (2)
• Saudi Arabia (7)
• Scotland (5)
• Senegal (1)
• Serbia (14)
• Singapore (1)
• Slovakia (11)
• Slovenia (11)
• South Africa (13)
• South Korea (10)
• Spain (16)
• Suriname (1)
• Sweden (4)
• Switzerland (9)
• Tajikistan (1)
• Thailand (1)
• Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• Tunisia (12)
• Turkey (16)
• Ukraine (12)
• United Arab Emirates (7)
• United States (16)
• Uruguay (1)
• Uzbekistan (11)
• Venezuela (15)
• Vietnam (2)
• Wales (11)
• Yemen (1)
• Zimbabwe (1)

External links

• World Karate Federation
• Official Website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2014-10-25)
• Results