Karate World Championship 1988

The ninth karate world championships took place in 1988 in Cairo , Egypt .

Medals

Men

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Kata men	Tsuguo Sakamoto	Tomoyuki Aihara	Dario Marchini
Kata team	Japan	Italy	France
Kumite up to 60 kg	Abdu Shaber	Nicola Simmi	Stone Rønning
			Hideto Nozaki
Kumite up to 65 kg	Tim Stephens	Reginaldo Doran	Jesús Juan Rubio
			Francesco Muffalo
Kumite up to 70 kg	Thierry Masci	Francisco Egea	Yoshimiro Anzai
			Bruno Pellicier
Kumite up to 75 kg	Kyo Hayashi	Thomas Hallman	Toni Dietl
			José Manuel Galan
Kumite up to 80 kg	Dudley Josepa	Mervyn Etienne	José Manuel Egea
			Waldemar Rauch
Kumite over 80 kg	Emmanuel Pinda	Vic Charles	Jöran Thell
			Gianluca Guazzaroni
Kumite openly ippon	José Manuel Egea	Mike Salisman	Ryosuke Shimizu
			Emmanuel Pinda
Kumite openly sanbon	Gianluca Guazzaroni	Vic Charles	Kyo Hayashi
			Kemal Aktepe
team	United Kingdom	Netherlands	Spain
			Italy

Ladies

Event	gold	silver	bronze
Kata ladies	Yuki Mimura	Hisami Yokoyama	Kathy Jones
Kata team	Japan	United States	Italy
Kumite up to 53 kg	Yuko Hasama	Catherine Girardet	Mari Capechi
			Shirley Graham
Kumite up to 60 kg	Akemi Kimura	Junko Kurata	Gina Halteman
			Ruth Hahn
Kumite over 60 kg	Guus van Mourik	Ylva Wickberg	Marie-Ange Legros
			Marzia Sartirani

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Japan	7th	3	4th	14th
2	United Kingdom	3	4th	1	8th
3	Netherlands	2	2	1	5
4th	France	2	1	4th	7th
5	Italy	1	2	6th	9
6th	Spain	1	1	4th	6th
7th	Sweden	0	2	1	3
8th	United States	0	1	2	3
9	BR Germany	0	0	3	3
10	Norway	0	0	1	1
10	Venezuela	0	0	1	1
Total		16	16	28	60

Web links

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