1986 World Karate Championship

The eighth Karate World Championships took place in 1986 in Sydney , Australia .

Medals

Men

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Kata men	Tsuguo Sakamoto	Tomoyuki Aihara	Dario Marchini
Kata team	Japan	France	Yugoslavia
Kumite up to 60 kg	Hideto Nakano	Y. Uchi	Steve McKinnon
			Rudolphe Vallée
Kumite up to 65 kg	Eizu Kondo	Yuichi Suzuki	Erik Pilspa
			Marc van Reybrouck
Kumite up to 70 kg	Thierry Masci	Kyo Hayashi	Manuel Monzon
			Maurice Negro
Kumite up to 75 kg	Kenneth Leeuwin	José Carlos de Oleveira	Tom Lilovac
			Ian Mapier
Kumite up to 80 kg	Jacques Tapol	Pat McKay	José Manuel Egea
			Gianluca Guazzaroni
Kumite over 80 kg	Vic Charles	Geoff Thompson	Waldemar Rauch
			Frank Bura
Kumite open	Karl Daggfeldt	Claudio Guazzaroni	Dudley Josepa
			José Manuel Egea
team	United Kingdom	France	Sweden
			Italy

Ladies

Event	gold	silver	bronze
Kata ladies	Mie Nakayama	Miki Hashimoto	Claire Curtis
Kata team	Chinese Taipei	Japan	United States
Kumite up to 53 kg	Sari Kauria	Yumi Yanagisawa	Yuko Hasama
			Sari Laine
Kumite up to 60 kg	Ritva Varelius	Molly Samuel	Solveig Hansen
			Christine Ferguson
Kumite over 60 kg	Guus van Mourik	Kari Lunde	Keiko Kawano
			Yvette Bryan

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Japan	5	7th	2	14th
2	United Kingdom	2	3	2	7th
3	France	2	2	1	5
4th	Finland	2	0	2	4th
5	Netherlands	2	0	1	3
6th	Sweden	1	0	1	2
7th	Chinese Taipei	1	0	0	1
8th	Italy	0	1	3	4th
9	Norway	0	1	1	2
10	Brazil	0	1	0	1
11	Australia	0	0	4th	4th
12	Spain	0	0	2	2
13	Belgium	0	0	1	1
13	Canada	0	0	1	1
13	Denmark	0	0	1	1
13	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
13	United States	0	0	1	1
13	BR Germany	0	0	1	1
13	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Total		15th	15th	26th	56

Web links

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