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2008 World Karate Championships

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2008 World Karate Championships
Host cityJapan Tokyo, Japan
Dates13–16 November
Main venueNippon Budokan
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The 2008 World Karate Championships are the 19th edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Tokyo, Japan from November 13 to November 16, 2008.[1]

Medalists

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Men

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual kata Luca Valdesi
 Italy
Antonio Díaz
 Venezuela
Vu Duc Minh Dack
 France
Mustafa Ibrahim
 Egypt
Team kata  France
Julien Dupont
Ayoub Neghliz
Jonathan Plagnol
 Japan  Peru
Jimmy Moreno
Akio Tamashiro
Hafid Zevallos
 Italy
Vincenzo Figuccio
Lucio Maurino
Luca Valdesi
Kumite −60 kg Danil Domdjoni
 Croatia
Darkhan Assadilov
 Kazakhstan
Hossein Rouhani
 Iran
Douglas Brose
 Brazil
Kumite −65 kg George Kotaka
 United States
Ádám Kovács
 Hungary
William Rollé
 France
Takuro Nihei
 Japan
Kumite −70 kg Rafael Aghayev
 Azerbaijan
Tamer Abdelraouf
 Egypt
Saeed Baghbani
 Canada
Shinji Nagaki
 Japan
Kumite −75 kg David Dubó
 Chile
Müslüm Baştürk
 Turkey
Mohamed Abdelrahman
 Egypt
Ko Matsuhisa
 Japan
Kumite −80 kg Satoshi Ibuchi
 Japan
Islamutdin Eldaruchev
 Russia
Hany Shakr
 Egypt
Alibek Prenov
 Kazakhstan
Kumite +80 kg Stefano Maniscalco
 Italy
Ibrahim Gary
 France
Calum Robb
 Scotland
Jonathan Horne
 Germany
Kumite open Rafael Aghayev
 Azerbaijan
Spyridon Margaritopoulos
 Greece
Stefano Maniscalco
 Italy
Gogita Arkania
 Georgia
Team kumite  Turkey
Okay Arpa
Yusuf Başer
Müslüm Baştürk
Zeki Demir
Yücel Dündoğdu
Murat Salih Kurnaz
Yaser Şahintekin
 Serbia
Slobodan Bitević
Stefan Ivanović
Dimitrije Jerković
Miloš Jovanović
Vladan Rudić Vranić
Dejan Umičević
Miloš Živković
 Egypt
 Spain
Iván Leal
Adrián Martínez
Francisco Martínez
Óscar Martínez
Cristian Rodríguez
Antonio Sánchez
Óscar Vázquez

Women

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual kata Nguyễn Hoàng Ngân
 Vietnam
Sara Battaglia
 Italy
Kasuga Wakabayashi
 Japan
Marija Madžarević
 Serbia
Team kata  Japan  France
Clotilde Boulanger
Céline Chevalier
Sonia Fiuza
 Italy
Sara Battaglia
Viviana Bottaro
Samantha Piccolo
 Spain
Fátima de Acuña
Ruth Jiménez
Almudena Muñoz
Kumite −53 kg Natsuki Fujiwara
 Japan
Kora Knühmann
 Germany
Gülderen Çelik
 Turkey
Elena Ponomareva
 Russia
Kumite −60 kg Maria Sobol
 Russia
Nassim Varasteh
 Canada
Katarina Strika
 Serbia
Vildan Doğan
 Turkey
Kumite +60 kg Tiffany Fanjat
 France
Elisa Au-Fonseca
 United States
Evgenia Podborodnikova
 Russia
Cristina Feo
 Spain
Kumite open Yuka Sato
 Japan
Gloria Casanova
 Spain
Ema Aničić
 Croatia
Eva Tulejová-Medveďová
 Slovakia
Team kumite  Germany
Yasmina Benadda
Kora Knühmann
Silvia Sperner
Maria Weiß
 Spain
Gloria Casanova
Irene Colomar
Cristina Feo
Carmen Vicente
 Italy
Selene Guglielmi
Roberta Minet
Laura Pasqua
Greta Vitelli
 France
Nadège Ait-Ibrahim
Tiffany Fanjat
Alexandra Recchia
Ruth Soufflet

Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Japan)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Japan*4149
2 France2237
3 Italy2147
4 Azerbaijan2002
5 Russia1124
 Turkey1124
7 Germany1113
8 United States1102
9 Croatia1012
10 Chile1001
 Vietnam1001
12 Spain0235
13 Egypt0145
14 Serbia0123
15 Canada0112
 Kazakhstan0112
17 Greece0101
 Hungary0101
 Venezuela0101
20 Brazil0011
 Georgia0011
 Iran0011
 Peru0011
 Scotland0011
 Slovakia0011
Totals (25 entries)17173468

Participating nations

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888 athletes from 97 nations competed.

References

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  1. ^ "World Karate Championships returning to Japan". Japan Today. Retrieved 2010-02-23.
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