Karate World Championship 1982

The sixth Karate World Championships took place in Taipei , Taiwan in 1982 , and the program was expanded to include three more women's competitions.

Medals

Men

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Kata men	Masashi Koyama	Domingo Llanos	Maurizio Marangoni
			Tetsuo Tabata
Kumite up to 60 kg	Jukka-Pekka Väyrynen	Rudolphe Vallée	Ramón Castillo
			Stewart McKinnon
Kumite up to 65 kg	Yuichi Suzuki	Giorgio Carcangiu	Toshiaki Maeda
			Roberto Sanz
Kumite up to 70 kg	Seiji Nishimura	Mika Manninen	Raffaele Bernardi
			Thierry Masci
Kumite up to 75 kg	Javier Gomez	Alfie Borg	Lin Chi-min
			Fred Royers
Kumite up to 80 kg	Pat McKay	Tapio Piettioja	Jan Holm
			Jacques Tapol
Kumite over 80 kg	Geoff Thompson	Patrice Ruggiero	Mario Garofoli
			John Reeberg
Kumite open	Hisao Murase	Antonio Martínez	Jerome Atkinson
			Pierre Pinard
team	United Kingdom	Italy	Spain
			Japan

Ladies

Event	gold	silver	bronze
Kata ladies	Mie Nakayama	Chu Mei-yuen	Minako Tabata
			Alexandra Starling
Kumite up to 53 kg	Sophie Berger	Yao Li	Chiang S.
			Francine Fillios
Kumite up to 60 kg	Yukari Yamakawa	Tomoko Konishi	Chang W.
			Beverly Morris
Kumite over 60 kg	Guus van Mourik	T. Yamafuku	Janice Argyle
			Nadia Ferluga

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Japan	6th	2	4th	12
2	United Kingdom	3	1	4th	8th
3	France	1	2	4th	7th
4th	Finland	1	2	0	3
5	Netherlands	1	0	2	3
6th	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
7th	Chinese Taipei	0	2	3	5
7th	Italy	0	2	3	5
9	Spain	0	1	2	3
10	United States	0	1	0	1
11	Australia	0	0	1	1
11	Venezuela	0	0	1	1
11	Denmark	0	0	1	1
11	Luxembourg	0	0	1	1
Total		13	13	26th	52

Web links

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