Karate World Championships
Karate · World Karate Federation
2025LatestCairo 2025: Egypt, the hosts, top of the medal table with 3 golds of 12
- Next
- Paris 2027, 12 events; the team events now have their own championships (Pamplona 2024, Hangzhou 2026)
- Most golds
- Japan, 99; France, 59; Spain and Great Britain, 24 each
- India
- No medal; India is not in the all-time medal table
- Cycle
- Every two years since 1980, with 2021 after 2018; two or three years apart before 1980
Championships
1970Events: 2Host: Tokyo
- Year
- 1998
- Host
- Rio de Janeiro
- Events
- 17
1972Events: 2Host: Paris
- Year
- 2000
- Host
- Munich
- Events
- 17
1975Events: 2Host: Long Beach
- Year
- 2002
- Host
- Madrid
- Events
- 17
1977Events: 2Host: Tokyo
- Year
- 2004
- Host
- Monterrey
- Events
- 17
1980Events: 10Host: Madrid
- Year
- 2006
- Host
- Tampere
- Events
- 17
1982Events: 13Host: Taipei
- Year
- 2008
- Host
- Tokyo
- Events
- 17
1984Events: 13Host: Maastricht
- Year
- 2010
- Host
- Belgrade
- Events
- 16
1986Events: 15Host: Sydney
- Year
- 2012
- Host
- Paris
- Events
- 16
1988Events: 16Host: Cairo
- Year
- 2014
- Host
- Bremen
- Events
- 16
1990Events: 16Host: Mexico City
- Year
- 2016
- Host
- Linz
- Events
- 16
1992Events: 16Host: Granada
- Year
- 2018
- Host
- Madrid
- Events
- 16
1994Events: 16Host: Kota Kinabalu
- Year
- 2021
- Host
- Dubai
- Events
- 16
1996Events: 17Host: Sun City
- Year
- 2023
- Host
- Budapest
- Events
- 16
- Year
- 2025
- Host
- Cairo
- Events
- 12
India at the World Championships
India has no medal at the World Championships; India is in neither the rows nor the all-time table.
More about this tournament
2025 champions
| Event | Men | Women |
|---|---|---|
| Kata | Kakeru Nishiyama (Japan) | Grace Lau (Hong Kong) |
| Kumite, lightest | −60 kg: Eray Şamdan (Turkey) | −50 kg: Gulshan Alimardanova (Uzbekistan) |
| Kumite | −67 kg: Afeef Ghaith (Jordan) | −55 kg: Ahlam Youssef (Egypt) |
| Kumite | −75 kg: Abdalla Abdelaziz (Egypt) | −61 kg: Atousa Golshadnejad (Iran) |
| Kumite | −84 kg: Youssef Badawy (Egypt) | −68 kg: Thalya Sombé (France) |
| Kumite, heaviest | +84 kg: Matteo Avanzini (Italy) | +68 kg: Johanna Kneer (Germany) |
Medal table (1970 to 2025, from the year articles)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan | 99 | 56 | 62 |
| 2 | France | 59 | 45 | 71 |
| 3 | Spain | 24 | 32 | 75 |
| 4 | Great Britain | 24 | 19 | 16 |
| 5 | Italy | 21 | 39 | 68 |
| 6 | Turkey | 15 | 13 | 36 |
| 7 | Egypt | 13 | 12 | 30 |
| 8 | Iran | 11 | 10 | 25 |
Nations as the year articles write them; England (5 golds) and West Germany are counted apart.