2012 World Karate Championships

Host city	Paris, France
Dates	21–25 November
Main venue	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
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The 2012 World Karate Championships are the 21st edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Paris, France from November 21 to November 25, 2012.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Antonio Díaz  Venezuela	Vu Duc Minh Dack  France	Luca Valdesi  Italy
			Ryo Kiyuna  Japan
Team kata	Japan Koji Arimoto Takato Soma Takumi Sugino	Italy Luca Valdesi Vincenzo Figuccio Lucio Maurino	France Jonathan Plagnol Romain Lacoste Jonathan Maruani
			Egypt Ibrahim Magdy Mustafa Ibrahim Ahmed Ashraf
Kumite −60 kg	Amir Mehdizadeh  Iran	Douglas Brose  Brazil	Mohamed Gamal  Egypt
			Marko Antić  Serbia
Kumite −67 kg	Magdy Mamdouh  Egypt	Saeid Ahmadi  Iran	Brian Ramrup  United States
			William Rollé  France
Kumite −75 kg	Luigi Busà  Italy	Rafael Aghayev  Azerbaijan	Oualid Bouabaoub  Algeria
			Ko Matsuhisa  Japan
Kumite −84 kg	Kenji Grillon  France	Ryutaro Araga  Japan	Yavuz Karamollaoğlu  Turkey
			Aykhan Mamayev  Azerbaijan
Kumite +84 kg	Enes Erkan  Turkey	Shahin Atamov  Azerbaijan	Khalid Khalidov  Kazakhstan
			Stefano Maniscalco  Italy
Team kumite	France Mathieu Cossou Nadir Benaissa Kenji Grillon Ibrahim Gary Azdin Rghioui Salim Bendiab Logan Da Costa	Turkey Enes Erkan Yücel Gündoğdu Murat Salih Kurnaz Yaser Şahintekin Gökhan Gündüz Mustafa Utku Şahin Aykut Usda	Iran Maziar Elhami Saeid Farrokhi Zabihollah Poursheib Ebrahim Hassanbeigi Saman Heidari Ali Fadakar Sajjad Ganjzadeh
			Egypt Hany Shakr Ahmed Sayed Ossama Abdelaziz Sayed Salem Mohamed Gamal Magdy Mamdouh Omar Ahmed

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Rika Usami  Japan	Sandy Scordo  France	Sakura Kokumai  United States
			Yaiza Martín  Spain
Team kata	Japan Yoko Kimura Suzuka Kashioka Miku Morioka	Italy Sara Battaglia Viviana Bottaro Michela Pezzetti	Spain Yaiza Martín Margarita Morata Sonia García
			France Sonia Fiuza Clothilde Boulanger Jessica Hugues
Kumite −50 kg	Alexandra Recchia  France	Li Hong  China	Serap Özçelik  Turkey
			Ana Villanueva  Dominican Republic
Kumite −55 kg	Lucie Ignace  France	Jelena Kovačević  Croatia	Yassmin Hamdy  Egypt
			Miki Kobayashi  Japan
Kumite −61 kg	Lolita Dona  France	Boutheina Hasnaoui  Tunisia	Elena Quirici  Switzerland
			Yu Miyamoto  Japan
Kumite −68 kg	Kayo Someya  Japan	Hafsa Şeyda Burucu  Turkey	Heba Abdelrahman  Egypt
			Tiffany Fanjat  France
Kumite +68 kg	Nadège Aït-Ibrahim  France	Greta Vitelli  Italy	Ayumi Uekusa  Japan
			Eleni Chatziliadou  Greece
Team kumite	France Tiffany Fanjat Lolita Dona Alexandra Recchia Emily Thouy	Croatia Maša Martinović Azra Saleš Ana-Marija Čelan Ivona Tubić	Turkey Serap Özçelik Tuba Yenen Meltem Hocaoğlu Hafsa Şeyda Burucu
			Japan Miki Kobayashi Yu Miyamoto Kayo Someya Ayumi Uekusa

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	7	2	4	13
2	Japan	4	1	6	11
3	Italy	1	3	2	6
4	Turkey	1	2	3	6
5	Iran	1	1	1	3
6	Egypt	1	0	5	6
7	Venezuela	1	0	0	1
8	Azerbaijan	0	2	1	3
9	Croatia	0	2	0	2
10	Brazil	0	1	0	1
	China	0	1	0	1
	Tunisia	0	1	0	1
13	Spain	0	0	2	2
	United States	0	0	2	2
15	Algeria	0	0	1	1
	Dominican Republic	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Serbia	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		16	16	32	64

Participating nations

990 athletes from 116 nations competed.^[1]