2018 World University Karate Championships

2018 World University Karate Championships

Host city	Kobe, Japan
Organiser	FISU
Nations	31
Athletes	229
Dates	19–22 July
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The 2018 World University Karate Championships was the 11th edition of World University Karate Championships and took place in Kobe, Japan between July 19 and July 22, 2018.^[1]

Participating nations

Australia  Austria  China  Czech Republic  Spain  France  Germany  Iran  Italy

Japan  Kosovo  Saudi Arabia  Luxembourg  Malaysia  Poland  Chinese Taipei  Turkey  United States

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Yuhei Horiba  Japan	Abolfazl Shahrjerdi  Iran	Emre Vefa Göktaş  Turkey
			Mattia Busato  Italy
Team kata	Japan Kaito Fujita Takaya Fukuda Ryuji Moto	Austria Vincent Forster Lukas Buchinger Christoph Buchinger	Poland Maksymilian Szczypkowski Aleksander Adamow Jan Sieradzki
			Iran Abolfazl Shahrjerdi Milad Delikhoun Ali Zand
Kumite −60 kg	Eray Samdan  Turkey	Saud Albasher  Saudi Arabia	Ali Meskini  Iran
			Kajith Kanagasingam  France
Kumite −67 kg	Francesco D'Onofrio  Italy	Soichiro Nakano  Japan	Mehdi Rahimi Nejad  Iran
			Raul Cuerva Mora  Spain
Kumite −75 kg	Yusei Sakiyama  Japan	Lou Lebrun  France	Ammed Ezzat Momy ElSharaby  Italy
			Luca Rettenbacher  Austria
Kumite −84 kg	Kamran Madani  United States	Durham Mitchell  Australia	Faraj Alnashri  Saudi Arabia
			Alvin Karaqi  Kosovo
Kumite +84 kg	Saleh Abazari  Iran	Daiki Ando  Japan	Dnylson Jacquet  France
			Somanroy M Arulveeran  Malaysia
Team kumite	Japan Rikito Shimada Daiki Ando Hyoki Tachibana Yusei Sakiyama Soichiro Nakano Yugo Kozaki Koki Kamaguchi	Iran Younes Noroozi Mahdi Ghararizadeh Mahani Mohamadmahdi Ghaheri Sharghi Saleh Abazari Mehdi Khodabakhshi Milad Bahmani Mehdi Rahimi Nejad Dahka	Saudi Arabia Saud Albasher Abdulaziz Alhakami Faraj Alnashri Bader Alotaibi Raef Al-Turkistani Sultan Alzahrani Tareg Hamedi
			France Faadel Boussag Dnylson Jacquet Kajith Kanagasingam Thanh-Liêm Lê Lou Lebrun Nicolas Nirde Alexis Raspilair

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Natsuki Shimizu  Japan	Terryana D'Onofrio  Italy	Marta García Lozano  Spain
			Laetitia Feracci  France
Team kata	Japan Natsuki Shimizu Azuki Ogawa Yui Umekage	Spain Marta García Lozano Jessica Moreno Wilkinson Marta Vega Letamendi	Czech Republic Simona Forstová Barbora Kočtářová Sabina Forstová
			China Qiao Yan Jialing Li Shuying Li
Kumite −50 kg	Miho Miyahara  Japan	Gu Shiau-shuang  Chinese Taipei	Faezeh Chizari  Iran
			Gema Morales Ozuna  Spain
Kumite −55 kg	Katayama Haname  Japan	Avishan Bagheri  Iran	Sara Heurtault  France
			Jennifer Warling  Luxembourg
Kumite −61 kg	Yuki Kujuro  Japan	Melika Ahadi  Iran	Coral Herrador Sánchez  Spain
			Wei-Ning Hsu  Chinese Taipei
Kumite −68 kg	Kanako Oryu  Japan	Laura Sivert  France	Maria Isabel Nieto Mejias  Spain
			Behnoosh Najafi Ghaghelestani  Iran
Kumite +68 kg	Rosa Marie Liebold  Germany	Tzu-Hsuan Wen  Chinese Taipei	Lora Ziller  Austria
			Ayaka Saito  Japan
Team kumite	France Andrea Brito Sara Heurtault Zoulikha Meghiche Laura Sivert	Spain Carlota Fernández Osorio Coral Herrador Sánchez Gema Morales Ozuna María Isabel Nieto Mejías	Austria Lara Hinterseer Lora Ziller Mariam Elaswad Kristin Isabelle Wieninger
			Japan Kanako Oryu Yuki Kujuro Haname Katayama Ayaka Saito

Medal count table

2018 World University Karate Championships[2]
Pos	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	10	2	2	14
2	Iran	1	4	5	10
3	France	1	2	5	8
4	Italy	1	1	2	4
5	Turkey	1	0	1	2
6	Germany	1	0	0	1
7	United States	1	0	0	1
8	Spain	0	2	5	7
9	Chinese Taipei	0	2	1	3
10	Austria	0	1	3	4
11	Saudi Arabia	0	1	2	3
12	Australia	0	1	0	1
13	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
14	Kosovo	0	0	1	1
15	Luxembourg	0	0	1	1
16	China	0	0	1	1
17	Malaysia	0	0	1	1
18	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Total	16	16	32	64

See also

• World University Championships

References

• 2018 FISU World University Karate Championship - Official Results

1. "2018 WUC Karate". www.fisu.net. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
2. "set-online". www.sportdata.org. Retrieved 2020-10-14.