Jonathan Horne

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Jonathan Horne at the XXI. WKF - Karate World Championship in Paris 2012
Jonathan Horne against Hasanov at the WKF World Karate Championships in Paris 2012
Hyden versus Horne 2012
Jonathan Horne with Stefano Maniscalco (2nd place) and Enes Erkan (3rd place) in 2016 in Montpellier

Jonathan Horne (born January 17, 1989 in Kaiserslautern ) is a German karateka . He carries the fourth Dan Shōtōkan , was youth world champion in 2005 (+75 kg), team runner-up in 2014 , world champion 2018, World Games winner in 2009 (+80 kg) and 2013 (+84 kg) and multiple European champion. He is the holder of the Silver Laurel Leaf and, according to Karate Records, is considered the best karateka in the world (+ 84 kg WKF ).

Athletic resume

Jonathan started taking karate lessons at the age of five at the Funakoshi Karate Center in Kaiserslautern . He is now starting for the Teikyo Karate Team Saarbrücken . He has been part of the Rhineland-Palatinate state squad since 2002. In DKV cadres he is promoted since the year of 2004. Jonathan Horne was the first German Vice-Student Master at the age of 13. Great successes were the 1st place at the youth world championships 2005 and the victories at the World Games 2009 and 2013. At the world championship 2012 in Paris he was seventh in the individual evaluation and in the team evaluation he reached the 5th place with the team Germany. At the WKF European Championships in Budapest in 2013 , he won two bronze medals , each in the weight class over 84 kg and with the German national team . Also in 2013, he managed to defend his World Games title in Cali . On 25 October 2013, the program was German President Joachim Gauck in the Bellevue Palace , the Silver Laurel Leaf awarded. He was the sporting figurehead for the 2014 World Cup in Bremen . At this world championship he was runner-up on November 9, 2014 with Team Germany after a final fight against Iran. At the 2015 European Games in Baku, he was again second behind his rival Enes Erkan in the weight category over 84 kg. At the 2016 European Championships in Montpellier, he faced Stefano Maniscalco in the final, which he defeated 1-0. He celebrated his greatest success in Madrid in 2018. Here he became world champion in the weight class + 84 kg. After his successes at the qualifying tournaments (Karate 1 Series A) in 2019 and 2020, he qualified for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

National successes

  • 2017 German Champion (+ 84 kg)
  • 2016 German champion (+ 84 kg)
  • 2015 German champion (+ 84 kg)
  • 2013 German champion (+ 84 kg)
  • 2012 German champion (+ 84 kg)
  • 2011 German champion (+ 84 kg)
  • 2010 German champion (+ 84 kg)
  • 2009 German Champion (+ 84 kg)
  • 2008 German champion (+ 84 kg)
  • 2007 German Champion (+ 80 kg)
  • 2006 master (Kumite youth + 75 kg)
  • 2005 German Champion (Kumite Youth + 75 kg)
  • 2004 German Champion (Kumite Team Youth)
  • 2003 German runner-up (students +55 kg)
  • 2002 German Vice-Champion (students +55 kg)

International success

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ World Games 2009 , accessed July 20, 2013
  2. ↑ handelsblatt-worldgames-Karate-Sieger 2013 ( memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed in September 2013
  3. ↑ Karate records world rankings , accessed on October 31, 2013.
  4. ↑ DKV Chronicle , accessed on March 19, 2014.
  5. ↑ Federal President Joachim-Gauck / Silbernes-Lorbeerblatt. , accessed October 27, 2013
  6. ↑ Karate WM 2014 Accessed on March 19, 2014
  7. ↑ chronik-karate ( memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 4.9 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chronik-karate.de
  8. ↑ World-games-2009 , accessed October 31, 2013 /
personal data
SURNAME Horne, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German karateka
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern , Germany