Karate World Championship 2012

Karate World Championship 2012
Official name	21st Karate World Championships 2012
Duration	21-25 November 2012
venue	Bercy Arena , Paris
Country	France
Nations ranking	France
Attendees	900
Nations	116
Disciplines	16
Referee	250

The WKF Karate World Championship 2012 in Paris-Bercy was the WKF's 21st Karate World Championship . It was the second time since 1972 that the Karate World Championships were held in Paris . They took place from November 21st to 25th, 2012 at the Palais Omnisports in Paris . A total of 990 athletes from 116 nations competed. 16 titles were awarded. Up to 17,000 spectators were present every day. Competitions in kata and kumite were held. As hosts, France was the most successful nation at the 2012 World Cup with seven gold, two silver and four bronze medals.

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• Pictures from the Karate World Championship in Paris 2012
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  Palais Omnisports

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  Team Germany

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  Team Germany

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  Kumite men

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  Kumite women

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  Horne (GER) vs Hayden ( SWE )

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  Jonathan Horne

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  Jonathan Horne ( GER ) vs. Hasanov ( AZE )

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  World Champion Kenji Grillon

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  Kenji Grillon and the press

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  Vice World Champion Rafael Aghayev

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  Noah Bitsch (GER) with Kizami-Zuki

Results

Kata single

Men

rank	country	Karateka
1	Venezuela	Antonio José Díaz
2	France	Vu Duc Minh Dack
3	Italy	Luca Valdesi
3	Japan	Ryo Kiyuna
5	England	Jonathan Mottram
5	Iran	Farid Haghighi
7th	Australia	James Adam Giuliano
7th	Taiwan	Yi Hsiang Wang

Women

rank	country	Karateka
1	Japan	Rika Usami
2	France	Sandy Scordo
3	United States	Sakura Kokumai
3	Spain	Yaiza Martin Abello
5	Denmark	Cecillie Bjerring
5	Montenegro	Biserka Radulovic
7th	Chile	Carol de la Paz
7th	Croatia	Vlatka Kiuk

Kata team

Men

rank	country
1	Japan
2	Italy
3	France
3	Egypt
5	Turkey
5	Peru
7th	Germany
7th	Malaysia

Women

rank	country
1	Japan
2	Italy
3	France
3	Spain

Kumite men

Weight class up to 60 kg

rank	country	Karateka
1	Iran	Amir Mehdizadeh
2	Brazil	Douglas Brose
3	Egypt	Mohamed Gamal
3	Serbia	Marko Antić
5	Colombia	Andres Rendon
5	South Korea	Ji Hwan Lee
7th	Morocco	El Mehdi Benrouida
7th	Turkey	Aykut Kaya

Weight class up to 67 kg

rank	country	Karateka
1	Egypt	Magdy Mamdouh
2	Iran	Saeid Ahmadi
3	United States	Brian Ramrup
3	France	William role
5	Germany	Ricardo Giegler
5	Italy	Ciro Massa
7th	Argentina	Julian Pinzas
7th	Australia	Tsuneari Yahiro

Weight class up to 75 kg

rank	country	Karateka
1	Italy	Luigi Busà
2	Azerbaijan	Rafael Aghayev
3	Algeria	Oualid Bouabaoub
3	Japan	Ko Matsuhisa
5	Austria	Stefan Pokorny
5	France	Davy Dona
7th	Macedonia	Ferat Korbuljikji
7th	Greece	Nikolaos Kosmas

Weight class up to 84 kg

rank	country	Karateka
1	France	Kenji Grillon
2	Japan	Ryutaro Araga
3	Turkey	Yavuz Karamollaoğlu
3	Azerbaijan	Aykhan Mamayev

Weight class over 84 kg

rank	country	Karateka
1	Turkey	Enes Erkan
2	Azerbaijan	Shahin Atamov
3	Kazakhstan	Khalid Khalidov
3	Italy	Stefano Maniscalco

Kumite women

Weight class up to 50 kg

rank	country	Karateka
1	France	Alexandra Recchia
2	People's Republic of China	Li Hong
3	Turkey	Serap Özçelik
3	Dominican Republic	Ana Villanueva
5	Egypt	Areeg Rashed
5	Morocco	Hiba Raouf
7th	Germany	Duygu Bugur
7th	Russia	Elena Ponomareva

Weight class up to 55 kg

rank	country	Karateka
1	France	Lucie Ignace
2	Croatia	Jelena Kovačević
3	Egypt	Yassmin Hamdy
3	Japan	Miki Kobayashi
5	Kazakhstan	Sabina Zakharova
5	Malaysia	Nisha Alagasan
7th	Algeria	Yasmine Benazzoug
7th	Turkey	Tuba yen

Weight class up to 61 kg

rank	country	Karateka
1	France	Lolita Dona
2	Tunisia	Boutheina Hasnaoui
3	Switzerland	Elena Quirici
3	Japan	Yu Miyamoto
5	Slovakia	Viktoria Semanikova
5	Turkey	Ece Yasar
7th	Australia	Kristina Mah
7th	Chile	Daniela Lepin

Weight class up to 68 kg

rank	country	Karateka
1	Japan	Kayo Someya
2	Turkey	Hafsa Şeyda Burucu
3	Egypt	Heba Abdelrahman
3	France	Tiffany Fanjat
5	Croatia	Azra Sales
5	Russia	Inga Sheroziya
7th	Belgium	Luana Debatty
7th	Spain	Irene Colomar Costa

Weight class over 68 kg

rank	country	Karateka
1	France	Nadège Aït-Ibrahim
2	Italy	Greta Vitelli
3	Japan	Ayumi Uekusa
3	Greece	Eleni Chatziliadou
5	New Zealand	Sophie Savill
5	Switzerland	Jessica Cargill
7th	Colombia	Sayaka Yurani Osorio Upegui
7th	Slovakia	Dominika Tataova

Kumite crew

Men

rank	nation	Athletes
1	France
2	Turkey
3	Egypt
3	Iran
5	Germany	Heinrich Leistenschneider, Noah Bitsch , Oliver Henning, Mehmet Bolat, Nika Tsurtsumia and Jonathan Horne
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7th
7th

Women

rank	country
1	France
2	Croatia
3	Turkey
3	Japan
5	People's Republic of China
5	Mexico
7th	Taiwan
7th	Russia

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	France	7th	2	4th	13
2	Japan	4th	1	6th	11
3	Italy	1	3	2	6th
4th	Turkey	1	2	3	6th
5	Iran	1	1	1	3
6th	Egypt	1	0	5	6th
7th	Venezuela	1	0	0	1
8th	Azerbaijan	0	2	1	3
9	Croatia	0	2	0	2
10	Brazil	0	1	0	1
	People's Republic of China	0	1	0	1
	Tunisia	0	1	0	1
13	Spain	0	0	2	2
	United States	0	0	2	2
15th	Algeria	0	0	1	1
	Dominican Republic	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Serbia	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Total		16	16	32	64

Attendees

List of participating states and number of athletes:

•  Afghanistan (1)
•  Albania (4)
•  Algeria (16)
•  Andorra (1)
•  Argentina (4)
•  Armenia (5)
•  Australia (8)
•  Austria (11)
•  Azerbaijan (9)
•  Bangladesh (3)
•  Belarus (11)
•  Belgium (9)
•  Belize (1)
•  Benin (7)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (12)
•  Botswana (2)
•  Brazil (12)
•  Bulgaria (11)
•  Cameroon (6)
•  Canada (12)
•  Chile (10)
•  People's Republic of China (12)
•  Chinese Taipei (8)
•  Colombia (14)
•  Republic of the Congo (5)
•  Costa Rica (2)
•  Croatia (23)
•  Cuba (2)
•  Curacao (1)
•  Cyprus (2)
•  Czech Republic (12)
•  Denmark (6)
•  Dominican Republic (7)
•  Ecuador (6)
•  Egypt (19)
•  England (19)
•  Estonia (1)
•  Finland (8)
•  France (24)
•  Gabon (8)
•  Georgia (7)
•  Germany (22)
•  Greece (13)
•  Guinea (1)
•  Hong Kong (9)
•  Hungary (13)
•  Iceland (3)
•  India (9)
•  Indonesia (10)
•  Iran (14)
•  Ireland (6)
•  Israel (6)
•  Italy (18)
•  Japan (21)
•  Kazakhstan (12)
•  Kenya (13)
•  Kuwait (8)
•  Latvia (6)
•  Lebanon (1)
•  Libya (4)
•  Luxembourg (5)
•  Macau (6)
•  North Macedonia (12)
•  Madagascar (8)
•  Malaysia (13)
•  Mali (2)
•  Mexico (15)
•  Moldova (3)
•  Monaco (1)
•  Montenegro (17)
•  Morocco (18)
•  Mozambique (2)
•  Nepal (3)
•  Netherlands (11)
•  New Zealand (10)
•  Nicaragua (2)
•  Norway (5)
•  Pakistan (1)
•  Palestine (1)
•  Peru (11)
•  Philippines (1)
•  Poland (7)
•  Portugal (17)
•  Puerto Rico (2)
•  Qatar (5)
•  Romania (11)
•  Russia (20)
•  Rwanda (5)
•  San Marino (1)
•  Sao Tome and Principe (1)
•  Saudi Arabia (9)
•  Scotland (5)
•  Senegal (9)
•  Serbia (19)
•  Singapore (1)
•  Slovakia (9)
•  Slovenia (10)
•  South Africa (10)
•  South Korea (13)
•  Spain (19)
•  Sri Lanka (1)
•  Sweden (8)
•  Switzerland (13)
•  Syria (1)
•  Tunisia (12)
•  Turkey (21)
•  Ukraine (15)
•  United Arab Emirates (5)
•  United States (14)
•  Uzbekistan (11)
•  Venezuela (18)
•  Vietnam (10)
•  Wales (2)
•  Yemen (1)
•  Zambia (5)
•  Zimbabwe (3)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ wkf , accessed on September 13, 2013.
2. ↑ dkv-karate-world championships-2012 , accessed on September 13, 2013.
3. ↑ Number of athletes. (PDF; 901 kB) Retrieved September 13, 2013 (English). 

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