2002 World Karate Championships

2002 World Karate Championships

Host city	Madrid, Spain
Dates	21–24 November
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The 2002 World Karate Championships are the 16th edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Madrid, Spain from November 21 to November 24, 2002.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Takashi Katada  Japan	Javier Hernández  Spain	Antonio Díaz  Venezuela
			Karim Sharif  Egypt
Team kata	Japan	Spain Javier Hernández Víctor López Fernando San José	Croatia
			Italy Vincenzo Figuccio Lucio Maurino Luca Valdesi
Kumite −60 kg	Damien Dovy  Benin	Cécil Boulesnane  France	Paul Newby  England
			Hossein Rouhani  Iran
Kumite −65 kg	George Kotaka  United States	Lazar Boskovic  Germany	Andrea Calzola  Italy
			Mehdi Amouzadeh  Iran
Kumite −70 kg	Md Golam Zakaria  Italy	Junior Lefevre  Croatia	Óscar Vázquez  Spain
			Messaoud Hammou  France
Kumite −75 kg	Iván Leal  Spain	Jasem Vishkaei  Iran	Köksal Çakır  Germany
			İsmail Hakkı Şen  Turkey
Kumite −80 kg	Yann Baillon  France	Daniël Sabanovic  Netherlands	Zeynel Çelik  Turkey
			Miloš Živković  FR Yugoslavia
Kumite +80 kg	Leon Walters  England	Alexander Gerunov  Russia	Jan Tuček  Czech Republic
			Seydina Baldé  France
Kumite open	Predrag Stojadinov  FR Yugoslavia	Daniel Devigili  Austria	Konstantinos Papadopoulos  Greece
			Klaudio Farmadín  Slovakia
Team kumite	Spain Tomás Herrero Iván Leal Francisco Martínez Óscar Martínez Ángel Ramiro David Santana Óscar Vázquez	England	France Yann Baillon Seydina Baldé Olivier Beaudry Rida Bel Lahsen Alexandre Biamonti David Félix Messaoud Hammou
			Iran Mehdi Amouzadeh Mehran Behnamfar Maziar Elhami Alireza Katiraei Nasser Khajeh-Hosseini Hassan Shaterzadeh Jasem Vishkaei

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Atsuko Wakai  Japan	Myriam Szkudlarek  France	Marcela Remiášová  Slovakia
			Yohana Sánchez  Venezuela
Team kata	France Jessica Buil Sabrina Buil Laëtitia Guesnel	Japan	Italy Luisa Arrabito Alessia Gasperini Annalisa Penolazzi
			Spain Miriam Cogolludo Ruth Jiménez Almudena Muñoz
Kumite −53 kg	Kora Knühmann  Germany	Michela Nanni  Italy	Sandu Anghel  Romania
			Nadia Mecheri  France
Kumite −60 kg	Nathalie Leroy  France	Ibtissem Hannachi  Tunisia	Yoko Takahashi  Japan
			Alexandra Witteborn  Germany
Kumite +60 kg	Elisa Au  United States	Zsuzsanna Klima  Hungary	Lucélia Ribeiro  Brazil
			Laurence Fischer  France
Kumite open	Snežana Perić  FR Yugoslavia	Tessy Scholtes  Luxembourg	Roberta Minet  Italy
			Premila Supramaniam  Malaysia
Team kumite	Spain Gloria Casanova Cristina Feo Noelia Fernández Estefanía García	France Patricia Chéreau Laurence Fischer Nathalie Leroy Nadia Mecheri	Turkey Yıldız Aras Gülderen Çelik Meral Ölmez
			England

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	3	3	5	11
2	Spain	3	2	2	7
3	Japan	3	1	1	5
4	Yugoslavia	2	0	1	3
5	United States	2	0	0	2
6	Italy	1	1	4	6
7	England	1	1	2	4
	Germany	1	1	2	4
9	Benin	1	0	0	1
10	Iran	0	1	3	4
11	Croatia	0	1	1	2
12	Austria	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Luxembourg	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
	Russia	0	1	0	1
	Tunisia	0	1	0	1
18	Turkey	0	0	3	3
19	Slovakia	0	0	2	2
	Venezuela	0	0	2	2
21	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Egypt	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Malaysia	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 entries)		17	17	34	68

Participating nations

751 athletes from 84 nations competed.

References

External links

• World Karate Federation Archived 2016-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
• Karate Records – World Championship 2002
• Day 1 results  Day 2 results  Day 3 results  Day 4 results