2021 World Championships
Venue	Hamdan Sports Complex
Location	Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dates	16−21 November
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The 2021 World Karate Championships were held from 16 to 21 November 2021 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.^[1][2]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (United Arab Emirates)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	4	1	2	7
2	Egypt	3	2	3	8
3	Spain	2	3	0	5
4	Italy	1	3	5	9
5	France	1	1	2	4
6	Serbia	1	1	0	2
7	Azerbaijan	1	0	2	3
8	Brazil	1	0	0	1
	Georgia	1	0	0	1
	Uzbekistan	1	0	0	1
11	Ukraine	0	1	2	3
12	United States	0	1	1	2
13	Chile	0	1	0	1
	Germany	0	1	0	1
	North Macedonia	0	1	0	1
16	Kazakhstan	0	0	3	3
17	Croatia	0	0	2	2
	RKF	0	0	2	2
	Turkey	0	0	2	2
20	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
	Morocco	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	Peru	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		16	16	32	64

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata details	Ryo Kiyuna  Japan	Damián Quintero  Spain	Mattia Busato  Italy
			Ali Sofuoğlu  Turkey
Team kata details	Japan Koji Arimoto Kazumasa Moto Ryuji Moto	Spain Sergio Galán Alejandro Manzana Raúl Martín	Italy Mattia Busato Gianluca Gallo Alessandro Iodice
			Turkey Emre Vefa Göktaş Enes Özdemir Ali Sofuoğlu
Kumite −60 kg details	Douglas Brose  Brazil	Angelo Crescenzo  Italy	Abdelali Jina  Morocco
			Iurik Ogannisian Russian Karate Federation
Kumite −67 kg details	Steven Da Costa  France	Emil Pavlov  North Macedonia	Ali El-Sawy  Egypt
			Soichiro Nakano  Japan
Kumite −75 kg details	Dastonbek Otabolaev  Uzbekistan	Abdalla Abdelaziz  Egypt	Nurkanat Azhikanov  Kazakhstan
			Thomas Scott  United States
Kumite −84 kg details	Youssef Badawy  Egypt	Fabián Huaiquimán  Chile	Yuta Mori  Japan
			Jessie Da Costa  France
Kumite +84 kg details	Gogita Arkania  Georgia	Simone Marino  Italy	Anđelo Kvesić  Croatia
			Asiman Gurbanli  Azerbaijan
Team kumite details	Italy Daniele De Vivo Gianluca De Vivo Ahmed El Sharaby Luca Maresca Simone Marino Michele Martina Lolrenzo Pietromarchi	Serbia Slobodan Bitević Vladimir Brezančić Stefan Joksić Ljubiša Marić Ðorđe Salapura Ðorđe Tešanović Bogdan Trikoš	Kazakhstan Nurkanat Azhikanov Igor Chikhmarev Abylay Toltay Nurniyaz Yeldashov Spandiyar Yerkebek Daniyar Yuldashev Beibarys Zhangbyr
			Azerbaijan Panah Abdullayev Tural Aghalarzade Rafael Aghayev Tural Alakbarli Asiman Gurbanli Rafiz Hasanov Turgut Hasanov

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata details	Sandra Sánchez  Spain	Hikaru Ono  Japan	Grace Lau  Hong Kong
			Viviana Bottaro  Italy
Team kata details	Japan Saori Ishibashi Sae Taira Misaki Yabumoto	Spain María López Lidia Rodríguez Raquel Roy	Egypt Noha Amr Antar Aya Hesham Asmaa Mahmoud
			Italy Carola Casale Terryana D'Onofrio Michela Pezzetti
Kumite −50 kg details	Miho Miyahara  Japan	Shara Hubrich  Germany	Kateryna Kryva  Ukraine
			Yasmin Nasr Elgewily  Egypt
Kumite −55 kg details	Ahlam Youssef  Egypt	Trinity Allen  United States	Ivet Goranova  Bulgaria
			Anna Chernysheva Russian Karate Federation
Kumite −61 kg details	Jovana Preković  Serbia	Anita Serogina  Ukraine	Lynn Snel  Netherlands
			Alexandra Grande  Peru
Kumite −68 kg details	Irina Zaretska  Azerbaijan	Silvia Semeraro  Italy	Alizée Agier  France
			Halyna Melnyk  Ukraine
Kumite +68 kg details	María Torres  Spain	Menna Shaaban Okila  Egypt	Sofya Berultseva  Kazakhstan
			Lucija Lesjak  Croatia
Team kumite details	Egypt Feryal Abdelaziz Sohila Abouismail Yasmin Elhawary Menna Shaaban Okila	France Alizée Agier Léa Avazeri Laura Sivert Jennifer Zameto	Colombia Wendy Mosquera Geraldine Peña Diana Ramírez Shanee Torres
			Italy Lorena Busà Clio Ferracuti Alessandra Mangiacapra Silvia Semeraro