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2023 European Championships (:ESP Guadalajara)

 

Final Medal Table

 

:GER  4 / 0 / 2
:ITA  3 / 2 / 6
:UKR  3 / 1 / 0
:FRA  2 / 2 / 3
:ESP  2 / 2 / 3
:TUR  1 / 2 / 7
:SUI  1 / 0 / 1
:GRE  0 / 3 / 2
:AZE  0 / 2 / 2
:CRO  0 / 2 / 2
:BEL  0 / 0 / 1
:MNE  0 / 0 / 1
:NED  0 / 0 / 1
:SWE  0 / 0 / 1

 

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Karate 1 Serie A

 

Stage #3 (:CAN Richmond-Vancouver)

 

the Champions

 

women's Individual Kata: :JPN Nakaji Hisami
women's Team Kata: :HKG Hong Kong


men's Individual Kata: :USA Rey Chinen
men's Team Kata: :KUW Kuwait


women's Individual Kumite


-50kg: :CRO Ema Sgardelli
-55kg: :CAN Hana Furumoto-Deshaies
-61kg: :MEX Ericka Gabriela Luque Sanchez
-68kg: :JPN Ayumi Yatoji
+68kg: :JPN Yuzuki Sawae


men's Individual Kumite


-60kg: :JPN Hiromu Hashimoto
-67kg: :IRI Morteza Nemati
-75kg: :ALG Oussama Zaid
-84kg: :ALG Falleh Midoune
+84kg: :GRE Athanasios Nikopoulos

 

 

Full Results

https://www.wkf.net/imagenes/campeonatos/karate1resultados-2023-karate-1-series-a-richmond-vancouver-001.pdf

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Karate 1 Premier League (:MAR Rabat)

 

Medal Matches

 

 

Women's Individual Kata

Gold Medal Match: :JPN Kiyou Shimizu vs :HKG Grace Lau Mo Sheung
Bronze Medal Match #1: :JPN Emiri Iwamoto vs :GER Jasmin Juettner
Bronze Medal Match #2: :JPN Maho Ono vs :JPN Hikaru Ono


Men's Individual Kata

Gold Medal Match: :TUR Alì Sofuoglu vs :JPN Kakeru Nishiyama
Bronze Medal Match #1: :JPN Sakichi Abe vs :JPN Aoi Funada
Bronze Medal Match #2: :JPN Kazumasa Moto vs :ITA Mattia Busato

 


Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg

Gold Medal Match: :KAZ Moldir Zhangbyrbay vs :VEN Yorgelis Salazar
Bronze Medal Match #1: :ESP Gema Morales Ozuna vs :HKG Ting Tsang Yee
Bronze Medal Match #2: :ESP Nadia Morales Gomez vs :MAR Chaimae Elhayti


Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg

Gold Medal Match: :UKR Anzhelika Terliuga vs :USA Trinity Allen
Bronze Medal Match #1: :ITA Syria Mancinelli vs :CHI Valentina Toro Meneses
Bronze Medal Match #2: :JPN Shima Airi vs :TPE Tsui-Ping Ku


Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg

Gold Medal Match: :KAZ Assel Kanay vs :TUN Wafa Mahjoub
Bronze Medal Match #1: :JPN Yuki Kujuro vs :SUI Nina Radjenovic
Bronze Medal Match #2: :ITA Aurora Graziosi vs :MAR Fatima-Zahra Chajai


Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg

Gold Medal Match: :SUI Elena Quirici vs :AZE Iryna Zaretska
Bronze Medal Match #1: :MAR Nisrine Brouk vs :SVK Sara Krivdova
Bronze Medal Match #2: :UKR Elina Sieliemienieva vs :CRO Sadea Becirovic


Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg

Gold Medal Match: :KAZ Sofya Berultseva vs :JPN Ayumi Uekusa
Bronze Medal Match #1: :SCO Niamh Junner vs :CRO Nikolina Golombos
Bronze Medal Match #2: :EGY Habiba Helmy vs :NED Ingrid Creemers

 


Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg

Gold Medal Match: :ITA Angelo Crescenzo vs :KUW Abdullah Shaaban
Bronze Medal Match #1: :JOR Abdallah Hammad vs :MAR Abdel Alì Jina
Bronze Medal Match #2: :ITA Carmine Luciano vs :GRE Christos-Stefanos Xenos


Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg

Gold Medal Match: :ITA Gianluca De Vivo vs :JOR Abdel Rahman Almasatfa
Bronze Medal Match #1: :JPN Hiroki Nakano vs :KAZ Didar Amirali
Bronze Medal Match #2: :JPN Soichiro Nakano vs :JPN Yugo Kozaki


Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg

Gold Medal Match: :KSA Sultan Alzahrani vs :BEL Quentin Mahauden
Bronze Medal Match #1: :MAR Wadie Sassioui vs :AUS Mitchell Durham
Bronze Medal Match #2: :TUR Enes Bulut vs :FRA Enzo Berthon


Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg

Gold Medal Match: :ITA Matteo Fiore vs :JOR Mohammad Aljafari
Bronze Medal Match #1: :EGY Mohamed Ramadan vs :KSA Faraj Alnashri
Bronze Medal Match #2: :ITA Michele Martina vs :CRO Ivan Kvesic


Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg

Gold Medal Match: :ITA Matteo Avanzini vs :KSA Sanad Sufyani
Bronze Medal Match #1: :TUR Fatih Sen vs :CRO Jakov Bunjevac
Bronze Medal Match #2: :KAZ Nurniyaz Yeldashov vs :KAZ Abylay Toltay

 

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Karate 1 Premier League (:MAR Rabat)

 

Medallists

 

Women's Individual Kata

Gold: :JPN Kiyou Shimizu
Silver: :HKG Grace Lau Mo Sheung
Bronze: :JPN Emiri Iwamoto & :JPN Hikaru Ono


Men's Individual Kata

Gold: :JPN Kakeru Nishiyama
Silver: :TUR Alì Sofuoglu
Bronze: :JPN Kazumasa Moto & :JPN Aoi Funada

 


Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg

Gold: :VEN Yorgelis Salazar
Silver: :KAZ Moldir Zhangbyrbay
Bronze: :HKG Ting Tsang Yee & :MAR Chaimae Elhayti


Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg

Gold: :UKR Anzhelika Terliuga
Silver: :USA Trinity Allen
Bronze: :CHI Valentina Toro Meneses & :TPE Tsui-Ping Ku


Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg

Gold: :TUN Wafa Mahjoub
Silver: :KAZ Assel Kanay
Bronze: :JPN Yuki Kujuro & :MAR Fatima-Zahra Chajai


Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg

Gold: :AZE Iryna Zaretska
Silver: :SUI Elena Quirici
Bronze: :UKR Elina Sieliemienieva & :MAR Nisrine Brouk


Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg

Gold: :JPN Ayumi Uekusa
Silver: :KAZ Sofya Berultseva
Bronze: :CRO Nikolina Golombos & :NED Ingrid Creemers

 


Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg

Gold: :ITA Angelo Crescenzo
Silver: :KUW Abdullah Shaaban
Bronze: :MAR Abdel Alì Jina & :GRE Christos-Stefanos Xenos


Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg

Gold: :JOR Abdel Rahman Almasatfa
Silver: :ITA Gianluca De Vivo
Bronze: :JPN Soichiro Nakano & :KAZ Didar Amirali


Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg

Gold: :BEL Quentin Mahauden
Silver: :KSA Sultan Alzahrani
Bronze: :TUR Enes Bulut & :AUS Mitchell Durham


Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg

Gold: :JOR Mohammad Aljafari
Silver: :ITA Matteo Fiore
Bronze: :ITA Michele Martina & :EGY Mohamed Ramadan


Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg

Gold: :ITA Matteo Avanzini
Silver: :KSA Sanad Sufyani
Bronze: :TUR Fatih Sen & :KAZ Abylay Toltay

 

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Karate 1 Premier League (:JPN Fukuoka)

 

Medallists

 

Women's Individual Kata

Gold: :JPN Hikaru Ono
Silver: :HKG Grace Lau Mo Sheung
Bronze: :JPN Mirisa Ohuchi & :JPN Kiyou Shimizu


Men's Individual Kata

Gold: :JPN Kazumasa Moto
Silver: :JPN Ryonosuke Kikuchi
Bronze: :JPN Kkeru Nishiyama & :ESP Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila

 


Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg

Gold: :EGY Reem Ahmed Salama
Silver: :ESP Nadia Gomez Morales
Bronze: :VEN Yorgelis Salazar & :KAZ Moldir Zhangbyrbay


Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg

Gold: :UKR Anzhelika Terliuga
Silver: :JPN Shiori Nakamura
Bronze: :SUI Maya Schaerer & :KAZ Gulmira Ussenova


Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg

Gold: :JPN Sarara Shimada
Silver: :GER Reem Khamis
Bronze: :JPN Yuki Kujuro & :UKR Anita Serogina


Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg

Gold: :SUI Elena Quirici
Silver: :JPN Tsubasa Kama
Bronze: :KAZ Laura Alikul & :AZE Iryna Zaretska


Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg

Gold: :JPN Yuzuki Sawae
Silver: :JPN Ayaka Saito
Bronze: :KAZ Sofya Berultseva & :ESP Maria Torres Garcia

 


Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg

Gold: :JPN Hiromu Hashimoto
Silver: :KAZ Darkhan Timraliyev
Bronze: :GER Florian Haas & :MAS Sankar Hari Sankar Sureeya


Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg

Gold: :JOR Abdel Rahman Almasatfa
Silver: :JOR Afeef Ghaith
Bronze: :GRE Dionysios Xenos & :KAZ Didar Amirali


Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg

Gold: :ITA Lorenzo Pietromarchi
Silver: :TUR Omer Faruk Yurur
Bronze: :ITA Daniele De Vivo & :BEL Quentin Mahauden


Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg

Gold: :JOR Mohammad Aljafari
Silver: :CRO Ivan Kvesic
Bronze: :JPN Junya Eto & :UKR Valerii Chobotar


Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg

Gold: :UKR Ryzvan Talibov
Silver: :ESP Babacar Seck Sakho
Bronze: :EGY Ahmed Elmasry & :KAZ Abylay Toltay

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Karate 1 Premier League (:IRL Dublin)

 

Medallists

 

Women's Individual Kata

Gold: :JPN Hikaru Ono
Silver: :HKG Grace Lau Mo Sheung
Bronze #1: :JPN Emiri Iwamoto
Bronze #2: :JPN Maho Ono


Men's Individual Kata

Gold: :JPN Kakeru Nishiyama
Silver: :JPN Sakichi Abe
Bronze #1: :JPN Kazumasa Moto
Bronze #2: :TUR Enes Ozdemir

 


Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg

Gold: :VEN Yorgelis Salazar
Silver: :CRO Ema Sgardelli
Bronze #1: :UKR Kateryna Kryva
Bronze #2: :CRO Jelena Pehar


Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg

Gold: :UKR Anzhelika Terliuga
Silver: :JPN Shiori Nakamura
Bronze #1: :JPN Shima Airi
Bronze #2: :INA Cok Ostri Agung Sanistyarani


Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg

Gold: :JPN Sarara Shimada
Silver: :TUR Fatma Naz Yeren
Bronze #1: :GER Reem Khamis
Bronze #2: :FRA Lea Avazeri


Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg

Gold: :AZE Iryna Zaretska
Silver: :SUI Elena Quirici
Bronze #1: :FRA Alizèe Agier
Bronze #2: :INA Georgia Zefanya Ceyco


Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg

Gold: :JPN Ayaka Saito
Silver: :ITA Clio Ferracuti
Bronze #1: :UKR Anastasiya Stepashko
Bronze #2: :JPN Ayumi Uekusa

 


Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg

Gold: :JPN Hiromu Hashimoto
Silver: :FRA Rayyan Meziane
Bronze #1: :KUW Abdullah Shaaban
Bronze #2: :GRE Christos-Stefanos Xenos


Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg

Gold: :JPN Yugo Kozaki
Silver: :GRE Dionysios Xenos
Bronze #1: :JOR Abdel Rahman Almasatfa
Bronze #2: :ITA Gianluca De Vivo


Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg

Gold: :JOR Hasan Masarweh
Silver: :FRA Enzo Berthon
Bronze #1: :UKR Andrii Zaplitnyi
Bronze #2: :BEL Quentin Mahauden


Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg

Gold: :ITA Michele Martina
Silver: :CRO Ivan Kvesic
Bronze #1: :JPN Rikito Shimada
Bronze #2: :GRE Konstantinos Mastrogiannis


Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg

Gold: :UKR Ryzvan Talibov
Silver: :CHI Rodrigo Rojas
Bronze #1: :CRO Andjelo Kvesic
Bronze #2: :ESP Babacar Seck Sakho

 

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so, this was the last K1PL tournament of this season...and :JPN did show that they're back on the driving seat also in the Kumite events

 

if the sport won't get its Olympic status back, soon we'll be back to the good old traditional Japanese domination (with few exceptions)

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A little bit of drama to spice up the day.

 

 

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela

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2024 season of Karate 1 Premier League to take Karate's first-class events to new heights

 

The 2023 season of the Karate 1-Premier League was a true celebration of the tremendous appeal of the sport, following the success of the tournaments that were held in :EGY Cairo, :MAR Rabat, :JPN Fukuoka and :IRL Dublin.  

 

The new year of Karate 1-Premier League will take Karate’s biggest events to :FRA Paris, :TUR Antalya, :EGY Cairo and :MAR Casablanca.

 

The first event will take place in France’s Capital, and it will be held in January.

 

The tournaments in :TUR and :EGY will be held in April and May, respectively, while the closing event of the season will take place in :MAR biggest city on the first days of June

 

 

FULL CALENDAR OF THE 2024 SEASON

 

 

The 2024 Karate 1-Premier League will open a new era in the biggest events of the sport, not only for the growing interest and popularity of the events.

 

The competition inaugurates the qualification for the 2025 World Individual Senior Championships, as the tournaments of the Karate 1-Premier League in 2024 will be included in the standings of Karate’s historic event to be held in Cairo in 2025.

 

Moreover, as a result of the agreement between the WKF with major TV producing company MEDIAPRO, the events in 2024 will also initiate a new stage in the production of Karate events for TV, with many updates to be expected to further increase the popularity and global appeal of the sport. 

 

Among the many updates on the event, a new competition programme* has been established to maximise the presentation of the event.

 

The closing event of the season in :MAR Casablanca will crown the new Grand Winners.

 

Considered the best of the year in the Karate 1-Premier League, the Grand Winners are the leaders of the Karate 1 standings in each category.

 

The Grand Winners have the right to wear the special karategi with the golden embroidery on the shoulder the following season

 

Fans can expect to watch all the action of the Karate 1-Premier League as it happens.

 

The eliminations of all the Karate 1-Premier League events will be available LIVE on the WKF YouTube channel.  

 

The bronze medal bouts and finals will also be available LIVE on the WKF YouTube channel (restrictions apply) and on a number of TV networks around the world (to be announced shortly).

 

 

*new competition programme matrix

https://www.wkf.net/imagenes/campeonatos/karate1programme-2024-karate-1-premier-league-paris-002.pdf

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