2006 World Karate Championships

Host City	Tampere
Country	FIN
Held	12 – 15 October 2006
Competitors	77
Countries	29

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Italy	ITA	5	1	1	7
2	Japan	JPN	2	3	4	9
3	Spain	ESP	2	2	2	6
4	France	FRA	2	1	2	5
5	Iran	IRI	2	0	2	4
6	Azerbaijan	AZE	1	1	0	2
7	Estonia	EST	1	0	0	1
=	Slovakia	SVK	1	0	0	1
=	Turkey	TUR	1	0	0	1
10	Egypt	EGY	0	2	5	7
11	Canada	CAN	0	1	1	2
=	Venezuela	VEN	0	1	1	2
13	Belgium	BEL	0	1	0	1
=	Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	0	1	0	1
=	Mexico	MEX	0	1	0	1
=	Netherlands	NED	0	1	0	1
=	Vietnam	VIE	0	1	0	1
18	Germany	GER	0	0	2	2
=	Peru	PER	0	0	2	2
=	Serbia	SRB	0	0	2	2
=	Switzerland	SUI	0	0	2	2
22	Australia	AUS	0	0	1	1
=	Croatia	CRO	0	0	1	1
=	England	ENG	0	0	1	1
=	Indonesia	INA	0	0	1	1
=	Kazakhstan	KAZ	0	0	1	1
=	Romania	ROU	0	0	1	1
=	Tunisia	TUN	0	0	1	1
=	United States	USA	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
-60 kg, Men	Hossein Rouhani	IRI	Gurban Taghiyev	AZE	Montassar Tabben Ibrahim Khalifa	TUN EGY
-65 kg, Men	César Castaño	ESP	Luis Plumacher	VEN	Donny Dharmawan Marko Lučić	INA CRO
-70 kg, Men	Rəfael Ağayev	AZE	Diego Vandeschrick	BEL	Saeid Farrokhi Takuro Nihei	IRI JPN
-75 kg, Men	Jasem Vishkaei	IRI	David Santana	ESP	El-Sayed El-Feky Ko Matsuhisa	EGY JPN
-80 kg, Men	Luigi Busà	ITA	Mohamed Abdelrahman	EGY	Esmaeil Torkzad Philippe Poirier	IRI CAN
+80 kg, Men	Marko Luhamaa	EST	Mohanad Magdy	EGY	Stefano Maniscalco Yann Baillon	ITA FRA
Open Ippon, Men	Stefano Maniscalco	ITA	Daniël Sabanovic	NED	Khalid Khalidov Iván Leal	KAZ ESP
Kumite Team, Men	Spain	ESP	Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	Egypt England	EGY ENG
Kata Individual, Men	Luca Valdesi	ITA	Takashi Katada	JPN	Akio Tamashiro Antonio Díaz	PER VEN
Kata Team, Men	Italy	ITA	France	FRA	Japan Egypt	JPN EGY
-53 kg, Women	Tomoko Araga	JPN	Selene Guglielmi	ITA	Heba El-Sayed Kora Knühmann	EGY GER
-60 kg, Women	Eva Medveďová	SVK	Nassim Varasteh	CAN	Diana Schwab Yuka Sato	SUI JPN
+60 kg, Women	Laurence Fischer	FRA	Ayaka Arai	JPN	Jessica Bratich Tamara Filipović	AUS SRB
Open Ippon, Women	Yıldız Aras	TUR	Yadira Lira	MEX	Claudia Niţu Snežana Perić-Pantić	ROU SRB
Kumite Team, Women	Japan	JPN	Spain	ESP	Germany Switzerland	GER SUI
Kata Individual, Women	Sara Battaglia	ITA	Hoàng Ngân Nguyễn	VIE	Myriam Szkudlarek Eimi Kurita	FRA USA
Kata Team, Women	France	FRA	Japan	JPN	Spain Peru	ESP PER