TOKYO (Reuters) -Spain's Sandra Sanchez, known as the "queen of kata", won karate's maiden gold medal on Thursday, defeating perennial rival and hometown favourite Kiyou Shimizu in the sport's ...

Women's kata favourites Kiyou Shimizu and Sandra Sanchez will contest a fifth Karate 1-Premier League final after dominating the first day of competition in Tokyo. Japan's Shimizu and Spain's Sanchez ...

Four new sports made their debut at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics: karate, skateboarding, surfing and climbing. But for Japan, it was karate and skateboarding – and the breakthrough performances of ...

KARACHI The 6th Pizza Hut National Women Karate Championship is scheduled to be held from October 8-10 at the Women's Sports Complex, Karachi. Jointly organized by Pakistan Karate Federation and Sindh ...

Iranian women’s team kata is comprised of Elnaz Taghipour, Najmeh Ghazizadeh, and Shadi Jafarizadeh. The team was beaten by the Japanese squad in the final of the competition. So far, Iranian karate ...

The Asian nation have dominated the team events and they do not look like relinquishing their hold on the titles at the Papp László Budapest Sports Arena. Emerging victorious in the past three ...

The women's solo "kata" competition kicked off karate's first foray into the Olympics on Thursday with the 10 karateka performing routines in a hushed, spectator-less Nippon Budokan arena, the ...

On the final day of the 19th Asian Karate Championship Melaka in Malaysia, the Iranian women's karate Kumite team won the silver medal with a 2-0 win in the final match against Vietnam. This was the ...

Japan's Ryo Kiyuna took men's kata karate gold on Friday, demonstrating his supremacy in the martial art form that originated in his native Okinawa a day after his compatriot conceded karate's maiden ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Spain’s Sandra Sanchez, known as the “queen of kata”, won karate’s maiden gold medal on Thursday, defeating perennial rival and hometown favourite Kiyou Shimizu in the sport’s ...