2025 World Karate Championships

27th Karate World Championships
Venue	Cairo Stadium Indoor Halls Complex
Location	Cairo, Egypt
Dates	27–30 November
Competitors	378 from 86 nations
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The 2025 World Karate Championships was held from 27 to 30 November 2025 in Cairo, Egypt with qualification for first time.^[1][2][3][4]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Egypt)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Egypt*	3	0	1	4
2	Iran	1	1	1	3
	Italy	1	1	1	3
	Japan	1	1	1	3
	Turkey	1	1	1	3
6	Jordan	1	0	1	2
	Uzbekistan	1	0	1	2
8	France	1	0	0	1
	Germany	1	0	0	1
	Hong Kong	1	0	0	1
11	Kazakhstan	0	1	2	3
12	Ukraine	0	1	1	2
13	China	0	1	0	1
	Kosovo	0	1	0	1
	Malaysia	0	1	0	1
	Morocco	0	1	0	1
	Puerto Rico	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia	0	1	0	1
19	Greece	0	0	2	2
20	Algeria	0	0	1	1
	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Azerbaijan	0	0	1	1
	Chile	0	0	1	1
	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	England	0	0	1	1
	Saudi Arabia	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela	0	0	1	1
	World Karate Federation-1	0	0	1	1
	World Karate Federation-2	0	0	1	1
Totals (31 entries)		12	12	24	48

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kata details	Kakeru Nishiyama  Japan	Alessio Ghinami  Italy	Ariel Torres  United States
			Enes Özdemir  Turkey
Kumite −60 kg details	Eray Şamdan  Turkey	Islam Selmani  Kosovo	Christos-Stefanos Xenos  Greece
			Hiromu Hashimoto  Japan
Kumite −67 kg details	Afeef Ghaith  Jordan	Said Oubaya  Morocco	Abdul Vakhkhob Rashidov  Uzbekistan
			Didar Amirali  Kazakhstan
Kumite −75 kg details	Abdalla Abdelaziz  Egypt	Andrii Zaplitnyi  Ukraine	Ernest Sharafutdinov World Karate Federation-1
			Suren Harutyunyan  Armenia
Kumite −84 kg details	Youssef Badawy  Egypt	Hasan Arslan  Turkey	Mohammad Al-Jafari  Jordan
			Ivan Kvesić  Croatia
Kumite +84 kg details	Matteo Avanzini  Italy	Saleh Abazari  Iran	Sanad Sufyani  Saudi Arabia
			Ivan Kudzinau World Karate Federation-2

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kata details	Grace Lau  Hong Kong	Maho Ono  Japan	Terryana D'Onofrio  Italy
			Aya Hesham  Egypt
Kumite −50 kg details	Gulshan Alimardanova  Uzbekistan	Shahmalarani Chandran  Malaysia	Yorgelis Salazar  Venezuela
			Sara Bahmanyar  Iran
Kumite −55 kg details	Ahlam Youssef  Egypt	Nina Kvasnicová  Slovakia	Anzhelika Terliuga  Ukraine
			Louiza Abouriche  Algeria
Kumite −61 kg details	Atousa Golshadnejad  Iran	Gong Li  China	Assel Kanay  Kazakhstan
			Wafa Mahjoub  Tunisia
Kumite −68 kg details	Thalya Sombé  France	Janessa Fonseca  Puerto Rico	Anastasia Velozo  Chile
			Irina Zaretska  Azerbaijan
Kumite +68 kg details	Johanna Kneer  Germany	Sofya Berultseva  Kazakhstan	Rochelle Walters  England
			Kyriaki Kydonaki  Greece

Participating nations

378 athletes from 88 nations participated:

1.  Albania (2)
2.  Algeria (11)
3.  Angola (3)
4.  Argentina (2)
5.  Armenia (2)
6.  Aruba (1)
7.  Australia (12)
8.  Austria (3)
9.  Azerbaijan (6)
10.  Belgium (6)
11.  Benin (1)
12.  Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)
13.  Brazil (6)
14.  Bulgaria (2)
15.  Burkina Faso (2)
16.  Burundi (2)
17.  Cameroon (2)
18.  Canada (4)
19.  Chile (9)
20.  China (4)
21.  Chinese Taipei (5)
22.  Colombia (6)
23.  Croatia (5)
24.  Czech Republic (2)
25.  Dominican Republic (4)
26.  Ecuador (4)
27.  Egypt (12)
28.  El Salvador (2)
29.  England (2)
30.  France (10)
31.  Georgia (4)
32.  Germany (8)
33.  Greece (9)
34.  Guatemala (5)
35.  Guinea (1)
36.  Hong Kong (5)
37.  Hungary (2)
38.  India (5)
39.  Iran (10)
40.  Italy (12)
41.  Japan (12)
42.  Jordan (5)
43.  Kazakhstan (8)
44.  Kosovo (3)
45.  Kuwait (2)
46.  Kyrgyzstan (1)
47.  Latvia (2)
48.  Libya (2)
49.  Luxembourg (2)
50.  Malaysia (3)
51.  Mexico (4)
52.  Moldova (1)
53.  Montenegro (4)
54.  Morocco (8)
55.  Nepal (2)
56.  Netherlands (5)
57.  New Zealand (6)
58.  Nigeria (5)
59.  North Macedonia (2)
60.  Philippines (1)
61.  Poland (3)
62.  Portugal (6)
63.  Puerto Rico (1)
64.  Romania (4)
65.  Rwanda (1)
66.  Saudi Arabia (5)
67.  Scotland (1)
68.  Senegal (2)
69.  Serbia (3)
70.  Singapore (1)
71.  Slovakia (6)
72.  Slovenia (1)
73.  South Africa (4)
74.  South Korea (1)
75.  Spain (6)
76.  Sweden (5)
77.  Switzerland (4)
78.  Thailand (1)
79.  Tunisia (5)
80.  Turkey (9)
81.  Ukraine (9)
82.  United States (6)
83.  Uzbekistan (8)
84.  Venezuela (4)
85. WKF Team 1 (6)
86. WKF Team 2 (3)

Para Karate

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Egypt)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Egypt*	4	1	4	9
2	Italy	1	2	1	4
3	Croatia	1	0	1	2
4	France	1	0	0	1
	Hungary	1	0	0	1
6	Japan	0	1	1	2
	Spain	0	1	1	2
	Turkey	0	1	1	2
9	Slovakia	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine	0	1	0	1
11	Germany	0	0	2	2
12	Azerbaijan	0	0	1	1
	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Mexico	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		8	8	16	32

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-10	Nohan Dudon  France	Imai Toshihiro  Japan	José Carreón  Mexico
			Dorin Alexe  Romania
K-21	Ahmed El-Beltagy  Egypt	Carlos Huertas  Spain	Albert Singer  Germany
			Mike Richter  Germany
K-22	Mattia Allesina  Italy	Patrick Buwalda  Italy	Stipe Barić  Croatia
			Abdelrahman El-Sherif  Egypt
K-30	Abdelaziz Abouelnaga  Egypt	Berkay Uslu  Turkey	Pietro Merlo  Italy
			Vidadi Khaligov  Azerbaijan

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-10	Rewan Alamir  Egypt	Marwa Hasany  Egypt	Aiko Kogure  Japan
			Lyazzat Zhussupova  Kazakhstan
K-21	Olívia Kákosy  Hungary	Federica Yakymashko  Italy	Lucía Sánchez  Spain
			Judy Halawa  Egypt
K-22	Daniela Topić  Croatia	Lucia Vlková  Slovakia	Natalie Olson  Canada
			Salma Alaaeldin Ebrahim  Egypt
K-30	Fatma Mahmoud  Egypt	Knarik Airapetian  Ukraine	Nesrin Cavadzade  Turkey
			Jana Radwan  Egypt

Participating nations

115 athletes from 31 nations participated:

1.  Australia (1)
2.  Azerbaijan (5)
3.  Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
4.  Canada (3)
5.  Chile (7)
6.  Croatia (7)
7.  Czech Republic (1)
8.  Egypt (24)
9.  England (1)
10.  France (5)
11.  Germany (4)
12.  Greece (1)
13.  Hong Kong (1)
14.  Hungary (9)
15.  India (2)
16.  Iran (6)
17.  Italy (6)
18.  Japan (3)
19.  Kazakhstan (3)
20.  Mexico (1)
21.  Netherlands (1)
22.  Portugal (1)
23.  Romania (1)
24.  Saudi Arabia (2)
25.  Slovakia (1)
26.  Slovenia (1)
27.  Spain (4)
28.  Turkey (2)
29.  Ukraine (1)
30.  United States (6)
31. WKF Team 1 (4)

References

1. "WKF Congress celebrates unity and bright future of Karate". WKF. 24 October 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
2. "2025 World Senior Individual Karate Championships Set for Cairo". WKF. 21 November 2025. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
3. "Competition Programme" (PDF). WKF. Retrieved 25 November 2025.
4. "World Karate Championships". WKF. Retrieved 30 November 2025.

External links

• World Karate Federation
• Results book – Karate
• Results book – Para Karate