1998 World Karate Championships

Host City	Rio de Janeiro
Country	BRA
Held	15 – 18 October 1998
Competitors	67
Countries	18

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	France	FRA	5	4	2	11
2	Japan	JPN	5	1	2	8
3	Turkey	TUR	2	0	3	5
4	England	ENG	1	2	3	6
5	Spain	ESP	1	1	6	8
6	Germany	GER	1	1	4	6
7	Brazil	BRA	1	1	1	3
8	Greece	GRE	1	0	0	1
9	Italy	ITA	0	1	4	5
10	Finland	FIN	0	1	1	2
=	Iran	IRI	0	1	1	2
12	Australia	AUS	0	1	0	1
=	Czech Republic	CZE	0	1	0	1
=	United States	USA	0	1	0	1
=	Venezuela	VEN	0	1	0	1
16	Belgium	BEL	0	0	1	1
=	Croatia	CRO	0	0	1	1
=	Denmark	DEN	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
-60 kg, Men	David Luque	ESP	Joël Barst	FRA	Hakan Yağlı Francesco Ortu	TUR ITA
-65 kg, Men	Alexandre Biamonti	FRA	Jean Carlos Peña	VEN	Célio René Vieira José Puertas	BRA ESP
-70 kg, Men	Haldun Alagaş	TUR	Samad Azadi	GER	Junior Lefevre Shizuo Shiina	BEL JPN
-75 kg, Men	David Félix	FRA	Antônio Pinto	BRA	Allan Busk Gennaro Talarico	DEN ITA
+80 kg, Men	Mark Haubold	GER	Yasumasa Shimizu	JPN	Óscar Olivares Davide Benetello	ESP ITA
-80 kg, Men	Gilles Cherdieu	FRA	Ali Shaterzadeh	IRI	Zeynel Çelik Wayne Otto	TUR ENG
Open Ippon, Men	Konstantinos Papadopoulos	GRE	Marcos Fernández	ESP	Alireza Katiraei Leon Walters	IRI ENG
Kumite Team, Men	France	FRA	England	ENG	Spain Germany	ESP GER
Kata Individual, Men	Ryoki Abe	JPN	Michaël Milon	FRA	Javier Hernández	ESP
Kata Team, Men	Japan	JPN	Italy	ITA	France	FRA
-53 kg, Women	Hiromi Hasama	JPN	Sari Laine	FIN	Nicole Jacobs Nadia Mécheri	GER FRA
-60 kg, Women	Julliet Toney	ENG	Nathalie Leroy	FRA	Alexandra Witteborn Marianne Tarva	GER FIN
+60 kg, Women	Laurence Fischer	FRA	Lourene Bevaart	AUS	Izumi Nabeki Judith Nagel	JPN GER
Open Ippon, Women	Maria Cecília de Almeida	BRA	Petra Piskačová	CZE	Tania Weekes Yıldız Aras	ENG TUR
Kumite Team, Women	Turkey	TUR	England	ENG	Croatia Spain	CRO ESP
Kata Individual, Women	Atsuko Wakai	JPN	Myriam Szkudlarek	FRA	Roberta Sodero	ITA
Kata Team, Women	Japan	JPN	United States	USA	Spain	ESP