2018 World University Karate Championships
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]
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| Host city |  Kobe, Japan |
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| Organiser | FISU |
| Nations | 31 |
| Athletes | 229 |
| Dates | 19–22 July |
Participating nations
Medalists
Men
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual kata | Yuhei Horiba | Abolfazl Shahrjerdi | Emre Vefa Göktaş |
| Mattia Busato | |||
| Team kata | Japan
Kaito Fujita Takaya Fukuda Ryuji Moto |
 Austria
Vincent Forster Lukas Buchinger Christoph Buchinger |
 Poland
Maksymilian Szczypkowski Aleksander Adamow Jan Sieradzki |
 Iran
Milad Delikhoun | |||
| Kumite −60 kg | Eray Samdan | Saud Albasher | Ali Meskini |
| Kajith Kanagasingam | |||
| Kumite −67 kg | Francesco D'Onofrio | Soichiro Nakano | Mehdi Rahimi Nejad |
| Raul Cuerva Mora | |||
| Kumite −75 kg | Yusei Sakiyama | Lou Lebrun | Ammed Ezzat Momy ElSharaby |
| Luca Rettenbacher | |||
| Kumite −84 kg | Kamran Madani | Durham Mitchell | Faraj Alnashri |
| Alvin Karaqi | |||
| Kumite +84 kg | Saleh Abazari | Daiki Ando | Dnylson Jacquet |
| Somanroy M Arulveeran | |||
| Team kumite | Japan
Rikito Shimada Daiki Ando Hyoki Tachibana Yusei Sakiyama Yugo Kozaki Koki Kamaguchi |
Iran
Younes Noroozi Mahdi Ghararizadeh Mahani Mohamadmahdi Ghaheri Sharghi Milad Bahmani Mehdi Rahimi Nejad Dahka |
 Saudi Arabia
Saud Albasher Abdulaziz Alhakami Faraj Alnashri Bader Alotaibi Raef Al-Turkistani Sultan Alzahrani |
 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 | Terryana D'Onofrio | Marta García Lozano |
| Laetitia Feracci | |||
| 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 | Gu Shiau-shuang | Faezeh Chizari |
| Gema Morales Ozuna | |||
| Kumite −55 kg | Katayama Haname | Avishan Bagheri | Sara Heurtault |
| Jennifer Warling | |||
| Kumite −61 kg | Yuki Kujuro | Melika Ahadi | Coral Herrador Sánchez |
| Wei-Ning Hsu | |||
| Kumite −68 kg | Kanako Oryu | Laura Sivert | Maria Isabel Nieto Mejias |
| Behnoosh Najafi Ghaghelestani | |||
| Kumite +68 kg | Rosa Marie Liebold | Tzu-Hsuan Wen | Lora Ziller |
| Ayaka Saito | |||
| 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 |
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 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} 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
References
- "2018 WUC Karate". www.fisu.net. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
- "set-online". www.sportdata.org. Retrieved 2020-10-14.