Summer Olympics 2020 / Karate / Qualification

Karate competitions at the 2020 Olympics
qualification
Kumite
Men	Women
up to 67 kg	up to 55 kg
up to 75 kg	up to 61 kg
over 75 kg	over 61 kg
Kata
Men	Women

A total of 80 quota places (40 per gender) are available for the karate competitions at the 2020 Olympic Summer Games .

Each nation may have a maximum of one athlete per weight class. This results in a maximum number of 8 athletes (4 men, 4 women).

Overview

nation	Kumite						Kata		Athletes
	Men			Women			Men	Women
	up to 67 kg	up to 75 kg	over 75 kg	up to 55 kg	up to 61 kg	over 61 kg
Egypt					X				1
Azerbaijan		X				X			2
Brazil	X								1
China					X				1
Chinese Taipei				X					1
Germany			X						1
France	X								1
Hong Kong								X	1
Iran		X	X	X		X			4th
Italy	X	X					X	X	4th
Japan	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	8th
Kazakhstan	X								1
Croatia			X						1
Switzerland						X			1
Serbia					X				1
Spain							X	X	2
Turkey			X	X	X	X	X		5
Ukraine		X		X					2
Venezuela							X		1
United States								X	1
Total: NOK 20	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	40

Qualification criteria

There are 10 quota places for each competition, these are allocated as follows:

• 1 to Japan as the host nation
• 4 to the best athletes in the Olympic ranking with the deadline of March 18, 2020
• 2 to athletes as continental representatives or by wildcard

Since the World Karate Federation has five weight classes, but there are only three at the Olympic Games, some results of the ranking are based on a combination of two WKF weight classes. In this case, the two best athletes in each class qualify. Otherwise the top four athletes in each class.

At the qualification tournament, the athletes compete in the Olympic weight classes. Only nations that have not yet qualified for the respective weight class are eligible to participate. The top three athletes in each weight class will receive a quota for the Tokyo Games.

A total of 12 quota places will be awarded to continental representatives. The quota places are selected in the following order:

• Oceania: 2 quota places (1 per gender)
• Africa: 2 quota places (1 per gender)
• America: 2 quota places (1 per gender)
• Asia: 2 quota places (1 per gender)
• Europe: 2 quota places (1 per gender)
• Africa: 1 further quota place (men or women)
• America: 1 additional quota place (for the opposite sex that Africa chose)

For each continent, all gold medal winners of the respective continental games are counted together. The best placed athlete receives the quota place, if it is not yet qualified or otherwise cannot be selected without violating one of the following criteria: 10 athletes per weight class, 1 athlete per nation per weight class, 2 athletes per nation through continental representation (only applies to Africa and America). If the highest ranked gold medalist cannot be reported, the next higher ranked gold medalist will qualify, if possible. This process goes through all gold medal winners by rank, all silver medal winners by rank and all bronze medal winners by rank until the quota places on the continent are filled. If none of the medalists can be reported, the highest ranked athlete on the continent in the ranking will qualify. Its deposition at the respective continental games is irrelevant.

A commission will award wild cards for the last four quota places.

Time schedule

competition	date	place
Asian Games 2018	August 18 - September 2, 2018	Jakarta
European Games 2019	21.-30. June 2019	Minsk
Pacific Games 2019	8-20 July 2019	Apia
Pan American Games 2019	July 26th - August 11th 2019	Lima
African Games 2019	19. – 31. August 2019	Rabat
Olympic ranking	March 18, 2020	-
Qualifying tournament	still open 1	Paris

¹The qualifying tournament was originally scheduled to take place May 8-10 , 2020, but has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

Men

Kumite up to 67 kg

Qualifying competition	Places	nation	Qualified athlete
host	1	Japan	Naoto Sago
Olympic ranking, kumite up to 60 kg	2	Kazakhstan	Darkhan Assadilov
		Italy	Angelo Crescenzo
Olympic ranking, kumite up to 67 kg	2	France	Steven Da Costa
		Brazil	Vinícius Figueira
Qualifying tournament	3
Continental representatives	0-2
Wildcard	0-2
total	10	5	5

Kumite up to 75 kg

Qualifying competition	Places	nation	Qualified athlete
host	1	Japan	Ken Nishimura
Olympic ranking	4th	Iran	Bahman Askari
		Italy	Luigi Busà
		Azerbaijan	Rəfael Agayev
		Ukraine	Stanislav Horuna
Qualifying tournament	3
Continental representatives	0-2
Wildcard	0-2
total	10	5	5

Kumite over 75 kg

Qualifying competition	Places	nation	Qualified athlete
host	1	Japan	Ryutaro Araga
Olympic ranking, kumite up to 84 kg	2	Turkey	Ugur Aktaş
		Croatia	Ivan Kvesic
Olympic ranking, kumite over 84 kg	2	Iran	Sajjad Ganjzadeh
		Germany	Jonathan Horne
Qualifying tournament	3
Continental representatives	0-2
Wildcard	0-2
total	10	5	5

Kata

Qualifying competition	Places	nation	Qualified athlete
host	1	Japan	Ryo Kiyuna
Olympic ranking	4th	Spain	Damián Quintero
		Turkey	Ali Sofuoğlu
		Venezuela	Antonio Díaz
		Italy	Mattia Busato
Qualifying tournament	3
Continental representatives	0-2
Wildcard	0-2
total	10	5	5

Women

Kumite up to 55 kg

Qualifying competition	Places	nation	Qualified athlete
host	1	Japan	Miho Miyahara
Olympic ranking, kumite up to 50 kg	2	Turkey	Serap Özçelik
		Iran	Sara Bahmanyar
Olympic ranking, kumite up to 55 kg	2	Ukraine	Anzhelika Terliuga
		Chinese Taipei	Wen Tzu-yun
Qualifying tournament	3
Continental representatives	0-2
Wildcard	0-2
total	10	5	5

Kumite up to 61 kg

Qualifying competition	Places	nation	Qualified athlete
host	1	Japan	Mayumi Someya
Olympic ranking	4th	China	Yin Xiaoyan
		Egypt	Giana Farouk
		Turkey	Merve Çoban
		Serbia	Jovana Preković
Qualifying tournament	3
Continental representatives	0-2
Wildcard	0-2
total	10	5	5

Kumite over 61 kg

Qualifying competition	Places	nation	Qualified athlete
host	1	Japan	Ayumi Uekusa
Olympic ranking, kumite up to 68 kg	2	Azerbaijan	Irina Zaretska
		Switzerland	Elena Quirici
Olympic ranking, kumite over 68 kg	2	Iran	Hamideh Abbasali
		Turkey	Meltem Hocaoğlu
Qualifying tournament	3
Continental representatives	0-2
Wildcard	0-2
total	10	5	5

Kata

Qualifying competition	Places	nation	Qualified athlete
host	1	Japan	Kiyou Shimizu
Olympic ranking	4th	Spain	Sandra Sánchez
		Italy	Viviana Bottaro
		Hong Kong	Grace Lau
		United States	Sakura Kokumai
Qualifying tournament	3
Continental representatives	0-2
Wildcard	0-2
total	10	5	5

Web links

• WKF qualification system (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WKF announces first qualified athletes for Tokyo 2020. World Karate Federation , March 18, 2020, accessed on April 2, 2020 .