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

The 2025 World Karate Championships was held from 27 to 30 November 2025 in Cairo, Egypt with qualification for first time.

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

Women

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

External links

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