Karate World Championship 1970

The Australian national team at the 1970 World Cup

The Karate World Championship 1970 ( English 1970 World Karate Championships ) was the first karate world championship in history. It was held from October 10 to October 13, 1970 in Tokyo , Japan by the WUKO World Union of Karate Do Organizations . A total of 178 karatekas from 26 nations were at the start. In the individual ranking on Ippon there were still no weight classes . Japan was the most successful nation with a total of four medals , with Koji Wada's individual victory and the first three places in the team standings (Japan E, ahead of Japan C, and Japan B). Only two judges out of 40 judges were not from Japan. The German champion Richard Scherer from Mannheim reached the quarter-finals , where he was defeated by the eventual world champion Koji Wada.

Competitions and Medals

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Single kumite	Koji Wada	John Carnio	Tonny Tulleners
			Dominique Valera
Team Kumite	Japan E.	Japan C	Japan B

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Japan	2	1	1	4th
2	Canada	0	1	0	1
3	France	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Total		2	2	3	7th

participating countries

The Australian national team at the 1st World Karate Championship in Tokyo in 1970

•  Argentina
•  Australia
•  Belgium
•  BR Germany
•  Brunei
•  Chile
•  France
•  Guatemala
•  Hong Kong
•  Indonesia
•  Israel
•  Italy
•  Japan
•  Yugoslavia
•  Canada
•  Mexico
•  New Zealand
•  Austria
•  Philippines
•  Singapore
•  South Korea
•  Syria
•  Thailand
•  Trinidad and Tobago
•  United Kingdom
•  United States

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1970 World Karate Championship in Japan . Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 11, 2014. 
2. ↑ karaterec-world-championship-1970 , accessed on February 11, 2014.
3. ↑ WUKO Results 1970 WM , accessed on February 12, 2014.
4. ↑ DJB-chronik-karate-1970_11_DJB-Magazin.pdf ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed February 11, 2014 
5. ↑ German Master (Karate) 1970 , accessed on February 12, 2014.

Web links

• http://www.wkf.net/
• First WUKO and IAKF World Championships