2008 World Karate Championships

Karate competition 2008 World Karate Championships 2008 World Karate Championships logo.png 180 JPN Tokyo, Japan 13–16 November 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. World Karate Championships returning to Japan Japan Today http://www.japantoday.com/category/sports/view/world-karate-championships-returning-to-japan 2010-02-23 Medalists Men Individual kataLuca Valdesi ITAAntonio Díaz VENVu Duc Minh Dack FRAMustafa Ibrahim EGYTeam kataJulien DupontAyoub NeghlizJonathan Plagnol Jimmy MorenoAkio TamashiroHafid ZevallosVincenzo FiguccioLucio MaurinoLuca ValdesiKumite −60 kgDanil Domdjoni CRODarkhan Assadilov KAZHossein Rouhani IRIDouglas Brose BRAKumite −65 kgGeorge Kotaka USAÁdám Kovács HUNWilliam Rollé FRATakuro Nihei JPNKumite −70 kgRafael Aghayev AZETamer Abdelraouf EGYSaeed Baghbani CANShinji Nagaki JPNKumite −75 kgDavid Dubó CHIMüslüm Baştürk TURMohamed Abdelrahman EGYKo Matsuhisa JPNKumite −80 kgSatoshi Ibuchi JPNIslamutdin Eldaruchev RUSHany Shakr EGYAlibek Prenov KAZKumite +80 kgStefano Maniscalco ITAIbrahim Gary FRACalum Robb SCOJonathan Horne GERKumite openRafael Aghayev AZESpyridon Margaritopoulos GREStefano Maniscalco ITAGogita Arkania GEOTeam kumiteOkay ArpaYusuf BaşerMüslüm BaştürkZeki DemirYücel DündoğduMurat Salih KurnazYaser ŞahintekinSRB 2004Slobodan BitevićStefan IvanovićDimitrije JerkovićMiloš JovanovićVladan Rudić VranićDejan UmičevićMiloš ŽivkovićIván LealAdrián MartínezFrancisco MartínezÓscar MartínezCristian RodríguezAntonio SánchezÓscar Vázquez Women Individual kataNguyễn Hoàng Ngân VIESara Battaglia ITAKasuga Wakabayashi JPNMarija Madžarević SRB 2004Team kataClotilde BoulangerCéline ChevalierSonia FiuzaSara BattagliaViviana BottaroSamantha PiccoloFátima de AcuñaRuth JiménezAlmudena MuñozKumite −53 kgNatsuki Fujiwara JPNKora Knühmann GERGülderen Çelik TURElena Ponomareva RUSKumite −60 kgMaria Sobol RUSNassim Varasteh CANKatarina Strika SRB 2004Vildan Doğan TURKumite +60 kgTiffany Fanjat FRAElisa Au-Fonseca USAEvgenia Podborodnikova RUSCristina Feo ESPKumite openYuka Sato JPNGloria Casanova ESPEma Aničić CROEva Tulejová-Medveďová SVKTeam kumiteYasmina BenaddaKora KnühmannSilvia SpernerMaria WeißGloria CasanovaIrene ColomarCristina FeoCarmen VicenteSelene GuglielmiRoberta MinetLaura PasquaGreta VitelliNadège Ait-IbrahimTiffany FanjatAlexandra RecchiaRuth Soufflet Medal table JPN flagcountry 4 1 4 yes 2 2 3 2 1 4 2 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 3 0 1 4 0 1 2 SRB 2004 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 Participating nations 888 athletes from 97 nations competed. 22em AFG 2013 (4) (7) (5) (4) (11) (10) (8) BLR 1995 (3) (10) (2) (5) (14) (19) (10) (16) (3) (13) (11) (11) CGO Congo (7) (12) (26) (10) (16) (4) (3) (16) (3) (15) (6) (2) (5) (23) (1) (22) (14) (20) (5) (2) (8) (7) (16) (2) (4) (16) (19) (4) (14) (11) (1) (13) Macedonia (11) (1) (13) (5) (15) (2) (4) (5) (8) (1) (9) (1) (1) (1) (5) (4) (3) (10) (8) (6) (11) (21) (9) (8) (11) SRB 2004 (18) (3) (16) (9) (18) KOR 1997 (15) (20) (9) (10) (5) (1) (3) (10) (24) (6) (19) (1) (9) (13) (11) (2) References External links World Karate Federation https://web.archive.org/web/20160513132336/http://www.wkf.net/index.php/championships.html 2016-05-13 Official Website Karate Records – World Championship 2008 Day 1–2 results2Day 3 results2Day 4 results World Championships World Karate Championships Category:World Karate Championships Category:Karate competitions in Japan Karate Championships Category:2008 in Tokyo Category:November 2008 sports events in Asia