2012 World Karate Championships

2012 World Karate Championships
Host city	Paris, France
Dates	November 21–25
Main venue	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
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The 2012 World Karate Championships are the 21st edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Paris, France from November 21 to November 25, 2012.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Antonio Díaz Venezuela (VEN)	Vu Duc Minh Dack France (FRA)	Luca Valdesi Italy (ITA)
			Ryo Kiyuna Japan (JPN)
Team kata	Japan Koji Arimoto Takato Soma Takumi Sugino	Italy Luca Valdesi Vincenzo Figuccio Lucio Maurino	France Jonathan Plagnol Romain Lacoste Jonathan Maruani
			Egypt Ibrahim Magdy Mustafa Ibrahim Ahmed Ashraf
Kumite −60 kg	Amir Mehdizadeh Iran (IRI)	Douglas Brose Brazil (BRA)	Mohamed Gamal Egypt (EGY)
			Marko Antić Serbia (SRB)
Kumite −67 kg	Magdy Mamdouh Egypt (EGY)	Saeid Ahmadi Iran (IRI)	Brian Ramrup United States (USA)
			William Rolle France (FRA)
Kumite −75 kg	Luigi Busà Italy (ITA)	Rafael Aghayev Azerbaijan (AZE)	Oualid Bouabaoub Algeria (ALG)
			Ko Matsuhisa Japan (JPN)
Kumite −84 kg	Kenji Grillon France (FRA)	Ryutaro Araga Japan (JPN)	Yavuz Karamollaoğlu Turkey (TUR)
			Aykhan Mamayev Azerbaijan (AZE)
Kumite +84 kg	Enes Erkan Turkey (TUR)	Shahin Atamov Azerbaijan (AZE)	Khalid Khalidov Kazakhstan (KAZ)
			Stefano Maniscalco Italy (ITA)
Team kumite	France Mathieu Cossou Nadir Benaissa Kenji Grillon Ibrahim Gary Azdin Rghioui Salim Bendiab Logan Da Costa	Turkey Enes Erkan Yücel Gündoğdu Murat Salih Kurnaz Yaser Şahintekin Gökhan Gündüz Mustafa Utku Şahin Aykut Usda	Iran Maziar Elhami Saeid Farrokhi Zabihollah Poursheib Ebrahim Hassanbeigi Saman Heidari Ali Fadakar Sajjad Ganjzadeh
			Egypt Hany Shakr Ahmed Sayed Ossama Abdelaziz Sayed Salem Mohamed Gamal Magdy Mamdouh Omar Ahmed

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Rika Usami Japan (JPN)	Sandy Scordo France (FRA)	Sakura Kokumai United States (USA)
			Yaiza Martín Spain (ESP)
Team kata	Japan Koji Arimoto Takato Soma Takumi Sugino	Italy Sara Battaglia Viviana Bottaro Michela Pezzetti	Spain Yaiza Martín Margarita Morata Sonia García
			France Sonia Fiuza Clothilde Boulanger Jessica Hugues
Kumite −50 kg	Alexandra Recchia France (FRA)	Li Hong China (CHN)	Serap Özçelik Turkey (TUR)
			Ana Villanueva Dominican Republic (DOM)
Kumite −55 kg	Lucie Ignace France (FRA)	Jelena Kovačević Croatia (CRO)	Yassmin Hamdy Egypt (EGY)
			Miki Kobayashi Japan (JPN)
Kumite −61 kg	Lolita Dona France (FRA)	Boutheina Hasnaoui Tunisia (TUN)	Elena Quirici Switzerland (SUI)
			Yu Miyamoto Japan (JPN)
Kumite −68 kg	Kayo Someya Japan (JPN)	Hafsa Şeyda Burucu Turkey (TUR)	Heba Abdelrahman Egypt (EGY)
			Tiffany Fanjat France (FRA)
Kumite +68 kg	Nadège Aït-Ibrahim France (FRA)	Greta Vitelli Italy (ITA)	Ayumi Uekusa Japan (JPN)
			Eleni Chatziliadou Greece (GRE)
Team kumite	France Tiffany Fanjat Lolita Dona Alexandra Recchia Emilie Thouy	Croatia Maša Martinović Azra Saleš Ana-Marija Čelan Ivona Tubić	Turkey Serap Özçelik Tuba Yenen Meltem Hocaoğlu Hafsa Şeyda Burucu
			Japan Miki Kobayashi Yu Miyamoto Kayo Someya Ayumi Uekusa

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	7	2	4	13
2	Japan	4	1	6	11
3	Italy	1	3	2	6
4	Turkey	1	2	3	6
5	Iran	1	1	1	3
6	Egypt	1	0	5	6
7	Venezuela	1	0	0	1
8	Azerbaijan	0	2	1	3
9	Croatia	0	2	0	2
10	Brazil	0	1	0	1
	China	0	1	0	1
	Tunisia	0	1	0	1
13	Spain	0	0	2	2
	United States	0	0	2	2
15	Algeria	0	0	1	1
	Dominican Republic	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Serbia	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Total		16	16	32	64

Participating nations

990 athletes from 116 nations competed.^[1]

References

• Results

External links

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