Karate WKF World Championships 2025

[mrv86 3,269]

Glad at least one competitor can fight for a medal 

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Final Day Recap, Part #1

 

women's Kata

Gold Medal Match: Grace Lau Mo Sheung b. Maho Ono 46.1-43.3
Bronze Medal Match #1: Terryana D'Onofrio b. Sakura Kokumai 42.4-42.1
Bronze Medal Match #2: Aya Hesham vs Georgia-Archontia Xenou 42.6-41.8

Gold: Grace Lau Mo Sheung
Silver: Maho Ono
Bronze: Terryana D'Onofrio & Aya Hesham

men's Kata
 

Gold Medal Match: Kakeru Nishiyama b. Alessio Ghinami 46.40-44.20
Bronze Medal Match #1: Ariel Torres Gutierrez b. Roman Hrcka 44.00-42.00
Bronze Medal Match #2: Enes Ozdemir b. Mostafa Elghobashy 44.30-43.20

Gold: Kakeru Nishiyama
Silver: Alessio Ghinami
Bronze: Ariel Torres Gutierrez & Enes Ozdemir

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Final Day Recap, Part #2

 

women's Kumite, -50kg

 

Gold Medal Match: Gulshan Alimardanova b. Shahmalarani Chandran 6-1
Bronze Medal Match #1: Yorgelis Salazar Camacho b. Tsang Yee Ting 6-6*
Bronze Medal Match #2: Sara Bahmanyar b. Lili Alvarado 3-0

Gold: Gulshan Alimardanova
Silver: Shahmalarani Chandran
Bronze: Yorgelis Salazar Camacho & Lili Alvarado

women's Kumite, -55kg

Gold Medal Match: Ahlam Youssef b. Nina Kvasnicova 9-3
Bronze Medal Match #1: Anzhelika Terliuga b. Valentina Toro Meneses 6-4
Bronze Medal Match #2: Louiza Abouriche b. Hana Furumoto-Deshaies 4-1

Gold: Ahlam Youssef 
Silver: Nina Kvasnicova
Bronze: Anzhelika Terliuga & Louiza Abouriche

women's Kumite, -61kg

Gold Medal Match: Atousa Golshadnejad b. Gong Li 4-2
Bronze Medal Match #1: Assel Kanay b. Oleksandra Sholohova 3-2
Bronze Medal Match #2: Wafa Mahjoub b. () Maryia Azarava 7-6

Gold: Atousa Golshadnejad
Silver: Gong Li
Bronze: Assel Kanay & Wafa Mahjoub

women's Kumite, -68kg

Gold Medal Match: Thalya Sombe b. Janessa Michelle Fonseca Romero 3-1
Bronze Medal Match #1: Anastasiia Velozo b. Elena Quirici 13-7
Bronze Medal Match #2: Iryna Zaretska b. Silvia Semeraro 9-1

Gold: Thalya Sombe
Silver: Janessa Michelle Fonseca Romero
Bronze: Anastasiia Velozo & Iryna Zaretska

women's Kumite, +68kg

Gold Medal Match: Johanna Kneer b. Sofya Berultseva 8-0
Bronze Medal Match #1: Rochelle Walters b. Ingrid Creemers 9-6
Bronze Medal Match #2: Kyriaki Kydonaki b. Guadalupe Quintal Catzin 8-6

Gold: Johanna Kneer
Silver: Sofya Berultseva
Bronze: Rochelle Walters & Kyriaki Kydonaki

 

 

* = Senshu

** = Hantei

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Final Day Recap, Part #3

 

men's Kumite, -60kg

 

Gold Medal Match: Eray Samdan b. Islam Selmani 4-0
Bronze Medal Match #1: Christos-Stefanos Xenos b. Tsotne Sordia 9-3
Bronze Medal Match #2: Hiromu Hashimoto b. Mekhriddin Turakhonov 5-4

Gold: Eray Samdan
Silver: Islam Selmani
Bronze: Christos-Stefanos Xenos & Hiromu Hashimoto

men's Kumite, -67kg

Gold Medal Match: Afeef Ghaith b. Said Oubaya 6-0
Bronze Medal Match #1: Abdul Vakhkhob Rashidov b. Georgios Baliotis 9-4
Bronze Medal Match #2: Didar Amirali b. Tomas Freire Fuentes 0-0**

Gold: Afeef Ghaith
Silver: Said Oubaya
Bronze: Abdul Vakhkhob Rashidov & Tomas Freire Fuentes

men's Kumite, -75kg

Gold Medal Match: Mamduh Abdelaziz Abdalla b. Andrii Zaplitnyi 6-0
Bronze Medal Match #1: () Ernest Sharafutdinov b. Enzo Berthon 11-6
Bronze Medal Match #2: Suren Harutyunyan b. Thomas Scott 2-0

Gold: Mamduh Abdelaziz Abdalla
Silver: Andrii Zaplitnyi
Bronze: () Ernest Sharafutdinov & Thomas Scott

men's Kumite, -84kg

Gold Medal Match: Youssef Badawy b. Hasan Arslan 6-0
Bronze Medal Match #1: Mohammad Aljafari b. Rayen Ghazouani 10-0
Bronze Medal Match #2: Ivan Kvesic b. Michele Martina 8-0

Gold: Youssef Badawy
Silver: Hasan Arslan
Bronze: Mohammad Aljafari & Ivan Kvesic

men's Kumite, +84kg

Gold Medal Match: Matteo Avanzini b. Saleh Abazari 2-2*
Bronze Medal Match #1: Sanad Sufyani b. Rodrigo Rojas 9-1
Bronze Medal Match #2: () Ivan Kudzinau b. Asiman Gurbanli 8-2

Gold: Matteo Avanzini
Silver: Saleh Abazari
Bronze: Sanad Sufyani & () Ivan Kudzinau

 

 

* = Senshu

** = Hantei

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Final Medal Table

3 / 0 / 0
1 / 1 / 1
1 / 1 / 1
1 / 1 / 1
1 / 1 / 1
1 / 0 / 1
1 / 0 / 1
1 / 0 / 0
1 / 0 / 0
1 / 0 / 0
0 / 1 / 2
0 / 1 / 1
0 / 1 / 0
0 / 1 / 0
0 / 1 / 0
0 / 1 / 0
0 / 1 / 0
0 / 1 / 0
0 / 0 / 2
0 / 0 / 1
0 / 0 / 1
0 / 0 / 1
()  0 / 0 / 1
()  0 / 0 / 1
0 / 0 / 1
0 / 0 / 1
0 / 0 / 1
0 / 0 / 1

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so, as expected, no gold in the men's Kata and only 3 total medals 

 

luckily, the great Matteo Avanzini saved our ass, winning the most prestigious gold of them all and renovating the great tradition  has in the men's heavyweights after a few years of drought

 

being one of the only 4 Nations (tbh, it should be 3, as  only got it because they're the only serious player in Oceania) with people qualified to this World Champ final stage in every class should make us proud, but only one medal out of 10 kumite categories is definitely not acceptable, it must be named "disappointing"

 

more in general, it's confirmed the great variety of competitive Nations in this sport and how difficult is it to take a medal home, with only the Host Country  being capable of winning more than one gold medal and a good total of 28 Countries winning at least one medal out of "only" 12 competitions.

[hckošice 16,641]

Nice Silver from the young Nina Kvasnicová in the W -55 Kumite 

 

Well done.

 

[MHSN 3,822]

I think I can live with 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze , even though Abazari losing the last final with the smallest possible margin hurt big time, it was 2-2 (without senshou), again even 2-2 on Hantei from the side refs but then the center ref decided the winner.

 

Atousa Golshadnejad became the first Iranian woman to win the world title in Karate and she really deserved it. 

 

I think our karate was cursed since 2021, lots of bad/terrible things happened since then, doping, career-ending injuries, missing 2021 Worlds for mysterious reasons ...

hopefully this gold medal lifts the curse finally