2006 World Karate Championships

2006 World Karate Championships

Host city	Tampere, Finland
Dates	12–15 October
Main venue	Tampereen jäähalli

The 2006 World Karate Championships are the 18th edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Tampere, Finland from October 12 to October 15, 2006.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Luca Valdesi Italy	Takashi Katada Japan	Akio Tamashiro Peru
			Antonio Díaz Venezuela
Team kata	Italy Vincenzo Figuccio Lucio Maurino Luca Valdesi	France Julien Dupont Ayoub Neghliz Jonathan Plagnol	Japan
			Egypt
Kumite −60 kg	Hossein Rouhani Iran	Gurban Taghiyev Azerbaijan	Montassar Tabben Tunisia
			Ibrahim Khalifa Egypt
Kumite −65 kg	César Castaño Spain	Luis Plumacher Venezuela	Donny Dharmawan Indonesia
			Marko Lučić Croatia
Kumite −70 kg	Rafael Aghayev Azerbaijan	Diego Vandeschrick Belgium	Saeid Farrokhi Iran
			Takuro Nihei Japan
Kumite −75 kg	Jasem Vishkaei Iran	David Santana Spain	El-Sayed El-Feky Egypt
			Ko Matsuhisa Japan
Kumite −80 kg	Luigi Busà Italy	Mohamed Abdelrahman Egypt	Esmaeil Torkzad Iran
			Philippe Poirier Canada
Kumite +80 kg	Marko Luhamaa Estonia	Mohanad Magdy Egypt	Stefano Maniscalco Italy
			Yann Baillon France
Kumite open	Stefano Maniscalco Italy	Daniël Sabanovic Netherlands	Khalid Khalidov Kazakhstan
			Iván Leal Spain
Team kumite	Spain Iván Leal Francisco Martínez Óscar Martínez Cristian Rodríguez Antonio Sánchez David Santana Óscar Vázquez	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Egypt
			England

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Sara Battaglia Italy	Nguyễn Hoàng Ngân Vietnam	Myriam Szkudlarek France
			Eimi Kurita United States
Team kata	France Jessica Buil Sabrina Buil Laëtitia Guesnel	Japan	Spain Miriam Cogolludo Ruth Jiménez Almudena Muñoz
			Peru
Kumite −53 kg	Tomoko Araga Japan	Selene Guglielmi Italy	Heba El-Sayed Egypt
			Kora Knühmann Germany
Kumite −60 kg	Eva Medveďová Slovakia	Nassim Varasteh Canada	Diana Schwab Switzerland
			Yuka Sato Japan
Kumite +60 kg	Laurence Fischer France	Ayaka Arai Japan	Jessica Bratich Australia
			Tamara Filipović Serbia
Kumite open	Yıldız Aras Turkey	Yadira Lira Mexico	Claudia Niţu Romania
			Snežana Perić Serbia
Team kumite	Japan	Spain Gloria Casanova Irene Colomar Cristina Feo Lucía Zamora	Germany Jeannine Herrgesell Kora Knühmann Silvia Sperner Nadine Ziemer
			Switzerland Fanny Clavien Reta Duverney Marilena Rubini Diana Schwab

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	5	1	1	7
2	Japan	2	3	4	9
3	Spain	2	2	2	6
4	France	2	1	2	5
5	Iran	2	0	2	4
6	Azerbaijan	1	1	0	2
7	Estonia	1	0	0	1
	Slovakia	1	0	0	1
	Turkey	1	0	0	1
10	Egypt	0	2	5	7
11	Canada	0	1	1	2
	Venezuela	0	1	1	2
13	Belgium	0	1	0	1
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	1	0	1
	Mexico	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
	Vietnam	0	1	0	1
18	Germany	0	0	2	2
	Peru	0	0	2	2
	Serbia	0	0	2	2
	Switzerland	0	0	2	2
22	Australia	0	0	1	1
	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	England	0	0	1	1
	Indonesia	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (29 entries)		17	17	34	68

Participating nations

766 athletes from 81 nations competed.

• Andorra (2)
• Australia (11)
• Austria (11)
• Azerbaijan (9)
• Bangladesh (4)
• Belarus (13)
• Belgium (5)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (16)
• Botswana (9)
• Brazil (24)
• Bulgaria (7)
• Canada (13)
• Chile (1)
• Chinese Taipei (6)
• Colombia (4)
• Congo (7)
• Croatia (24)
• Cyprus (3)
• Czech Republic (14)
• Denmark (5)
• Egypt (16)
• England (12)
• Estonia (11)
• Finland (11)
• France (24)
• Germany (19)
• Greece (12)
• Guatemala (7)
• Hong Kong (13)
• Hungary (3)
• Iceland (2)
• India (3)
• Indonesia (19)
• Iran (16)
• Ireland (3)
• Israel (2)
• Italy (16)
• Ivory Coast (8)
• Japan (19)
• Kazakhstan (10)
• Kuwait (12)
• Latvia (9)
• Libya (2)
• Luxembourg (1)
• Macau (11)
• Macedonia (8)
• Malaysia (14)
• Mexico (8)
• Montenegro (15)
• Morocco (1)
• Netherlands (11)
• Netherlands Antilles (1)
• New Zealand (4)
• Nicaragua (1)
• Norway (6)
• Pakistan (4)
• Peru (7)
• Philippines (6)
• Poland (9)
• Portugal (2)
• Qatar (7)
• Romania (3)
• Russia (22)
• Scotland (10)
• Senegal (13)
• Serbia (19)
• Seychelles (1)
• Slovakia (10)
• Slovenia (5)
• South Africa (16)
• South Korea (6)
• Spain (21)
• Sweden (16)
• Switzerland (13)
• Tunisia (8)
• Turkey (17)
• Ukraine (3)
• United States (16)
• Venezuela (11)
• Vietnam (1)
• Wales (2)

External links

• World Karate Federation
• Karate Records – World Championship 2006
• Men's results  Women's results  Team results