TOKYO - Spain's Sandra Sanchez, known as the "queen of kata", won karate's maiden gold medal on ... win gold as the reigning world champion in the men's -67kg category beat Turkey's Eray Samdan in the ...

Karate's debut as an Olympic sport brought some ... no nation had more than one gold winner and that's including the two golds awarded in kata. Azerbaijan boasts two silver winners in Rafael Aghayev ...

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Karate - Men's Individual Kata - Gold medal match - Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan - August 6, 2021. Ryo Kiyuna of Japan competes. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse The World Karate ...

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Karate - Men's +75kg Kumite - Final - Nippon Budokan ... Kumite is one of the three main forms of karate, alongside kata and kihon, and is the form of the sport where ...

The women's solo "kata" competition kicked off karate's first foray into the Olympics on Thursday ... in the elimination round to face off in the final, as widely expected. As the two performed ...

The International Olympic Committee announced Wednesday that six sports will be added to the docket at the 2020 Summer Olympics ... Kata is more of a demonstration sport that shows off karate's ...