Karate WKF World Championships 2021

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finally! and it's history!!! Italy are men's Team Kumite World Champions! (first time ever)  

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Team Events

 

 

Medallists Recap

 

 

Women's Team Kata

Gold: Japan
Silver: Spain
Bronze: Italy & Egypt

Men's Team Kata

Gold: Japan
Silver: Spain
Bronze: Turkey & Italy

 

Women's Team Kumite

Gold: Egypt
Silver: France
Bronze: Italy & Colombia

Men's Team Kumite

Gold: Italy
Silver: Serbia
Bronze: Kazakhstan & Azerbaijan

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Final Medal Table

 

Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze
JPN	4	1	2
EGY	3	2	3
ESP	2	3	0
ITA	1	3	5
FRA	1	1	2
SRB	1	1	0
AZE	1	0	2
BRA	1	0	0
GEO	1	0	0
UZB	1	0	0
UKR	0	1	2
USA	0	1	1
CHI	0	1	0
GER	0	1	0
MKD	0	1	0
KAZ	0	0	3
CRO	0	0	2
RUS	0	0	2
TUR	0	0	2
BUL	0	0	1
COL	0	0	1
HKG	0	0	1
MAR	0	0	1
NED	0	0	1
PER	0	0	1

[phelps 7,675]

just one final consideration...

 

with only 16 events, we have 25 Nations getting at least a medal, 10 of them winning at least 1 gold...

 

we have all the Continents (but Oceania) with multiple medals...

 

all the individual events had more than 50 entries (with just 1 athlete per Nation), in some cases even more than 70 (even the team Kumite events had 46 and 51 entries among the men and the women respectively)...

 

but for some reason Karate doesn't deserve to be an Olympic sport, favouring disciplines with less than 10 entries from the usual 5/6 Nations of the usual 2/3 Continents... 

 

thank you IOC, thank you! 

 

now it's really over...see you in the other sports' threads...

[MHSN 3,619]

I watched almost all of the finals. lots of interesting high scoring matches, even though it was painful to watch, I still don't know why exactly our federation withdrew the way absolutely nobody talks about it, it looked like a super important security reason, something like the whole Dubai is going to blow up and only these guys knew about it.

 

hopefully one day in near future we will know the real reason, but for now it seems they changed the plan and will send the A team to the Asian Championship next month (something to make up for the athletes whom I assume are very upset now) they were supposed to send the 2nd tier Karatekas to Kazakhstan.

[mrv86 3,138]

7 hours ago, phelps said:

just one final consideration...

 

with only 16 events, we have 25 Nations getting at least a medal, 10 of them winning at least 1 gold...

 

we have all the Continents (but Oceania) with multiple medals...

 

all the individual events had more than 50 entries (with just 1 athlete per Nation), in some cases even more than 70 (even the team Kumite events had 46 and 51 entries among the men and the women respectively)...

 

but for some reason Karate doesn't deserve to be an Olympic sport, favouring disciplines with less than 10 entries from the usual 5/6 Nations of the usual 2/3 Continents... 

 

thank you IOC, thank you! 

 

now it's really over...see you in the other sports' threads...

To add preteens with stupid nicknames supposedly "dancing"