1982 World Karate Championships

Host City	Taipei
Country	TPE
Held	21 – 25 November 1982
Competitors	48
Countries	14

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Japan	JPN	6	2	4	12
2	Great Britain	GBR	3	1	4	8
3	France	FRA	1	2	4	7
4	Finland	FIN	1	2	0	3
5	Netherlands	NED	1	0	2	3
6	Switzerland	SUI	1	0	0	1
7	Chinese Taipei	TPE	0	2	3	5
=	Italy	ITA	0	2	3	5
9	Spain	ESP	0	1	2	3
10	United States	USA	0	1	0	1
11	Australia	AUS	0	0	1	1
=	Denmark	DEN	0	0	1	1
=	Luxembourg	LUX	0	0	1	1
=	Venezuela	VEN	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
-60 kg, Men	Jukka-Pekka Väyrynen	FIN	Rudolphe Vallée	FRA	Ramón Castillo Stewart MacKinnon	VEN GBR
-65 kg, Men	Yuichi Suzuki	JPN	Giorgio Carcangiu	ITA	Toshiaki Maeda Roberto Sanz	JPN ESP
-70 kg, Men	Seiji Nishimura	JPN	Mika Manninen	FIN	Raffaele Bernardi Thierry Masci	ITA FRA
-75 kg, Men	Javier Gomez	SUI	Alfie Borg	GBR	Kuei-Yang Wang Fred Royers	TPE NED
-80 kg, Men	Patrick McKay	GBR	Tapio Pirttioja	FIN	Jan Holm Jacques Tapol	DEN FRA
+80 kg, Men	Geoff Thompson	GBR	Patrice Ruggiero	FRA	Mario Garofoli John Reeberg	LUX NED
Open Ippon, Men	Hisao Murase	JPN	Antonio Martínez	ESP	Jerome Atkinson Pierre Pinard	GBR FRA
Kumite Team, Men	Great Britain	GBR	Italy	ITA	Spain Japan	ESP JPN
Kata Individual, Men	Masashi Koyama	JPN	Domingo Llanos	USA	Maurizio Marangoni Tetsuo Tabata	ITA JPN
-53 kg, Women	Sophie Berger	FRA	Li Yao	TPE	Francine Fillios S Chiang	FRA TPE
+60 kg, Women	Guusje van Mourik	NED	T Yamafuku	JPN	Janice Argyle Nadia Ferluga	GBR ITA
-60 kg, Women	Yukari Yamakawa	JPN	Tomoko Konishi	JPN	W Chang Beverly Morris	TPE GBR
Kata Individual, Women	Mie Nakayama	JPN	Mei-Yuen Chu	TPE	Minako Tabata Alexandra Starling	JPN AUS