Karate World Championship 1996

The thirteenth world karate championship took place in 1996 in Sun City , South Africa .

Medals

Men

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Kata men	Michaël Milon	Ryoki Abe	Lucio Maurino
Kata team	Japan	France	Italy
Kumite up to 60 kg	David Luque	Hakan Yağlı	Shinichiro Yamamoto
			Rifat Mujanović
Kumite up to 65 kg	Mehdi Amouzadeh	Mark Golding	Alexandre Biamonti
			Bahattin Kandaz
Kumite up to 70 kg	Aslam Gubashiev	Juraj Gažo	Reza Mohseni
			Junior Lefevre
Kumite up to 75 kg	Wayne Otto	Tomás Herrero	Kazuaki Matsumoto
			Gennaro Talarico
Kumite up to 80 kg	Gilles Cherdieu	Toshihito Kokubun	Georg Petermann
			Fernando García
Kumite over 80 kg	Yasumasa Shimizu	Andrey Anikin	Teodor Rajic
			Ian Cole
Kumite openly ippon	Paul Alderson	Óscar Olivares	John Fonseca
			Manabu Takenouchi
team	France	United Kingdom	Yugoslavia
			Spain

Ladies

Event	gold	silver	bronze
Kata ladies	Yuki Mimura	Melanie Genung	Shahrzad Mansouri
Kata team	Japan	United States	France
Kumite up to 53 kg	Theresia Larsson	Marise Mazurier	Marianna Lauková
			Robyn Choi
Kumite up to 60 kg	Julliet Toney	Mayumi Baba	Chiara Stella Bux
			Leyla Gedik
Kumite over 60 kg	Patricia Duggin	Theodora Dougeni	Bregje Kaars-Sijpestein
			Rosa Ortega
Kumite openly ippon	Yvonne Senff	Izumi Nabeki	Karina Gansch
			Roberta Minet
team	United Kingdom	Italy	Spain
			Australia

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	United Kingdom	5	1	1	7th
2	Japan	4th	4th	3	11
3	France	3	2	2	7th
4th	Spain	1	2	4th	7th
5	Russia	1	1	0	2
6th	Sweden	1	0	1	2
7th	Netherlands Antilles	1	0	0	1
7th	Iran	1	0	0	1
9	United States	0	2	1	3
10	Italy	0	1	5	6th
11	Australia	0	1	2	3
11	Turkey	0	1	2	3
13	Slovakia	0	1	1	2
14th	Greece	0	1	0	1
15th	Yugoslavia	0	0	3	3
16	Austria	0	0	2	2
17th	Germany	0	0	1	1
17th	Belgium	0	0	1	1
17th	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
Total		17th	17th	30th	64

Web links

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