2008 World Karate Championships

Host City	Tokyo
Country	JPN
Held	13 – 16 November 2008
Competitors	98
Countries	25

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Japan	JPN	4	1	4	9
2	France	FRA	2	2	3	7
3	Italy	ITA	2	1	4	7
4	Azerbaijan	AZE	2	0	0	2
5	Russia	RUS	1	1	2	4
=	Turkey	TUR	1	1	2	4
7	Germany	GER	1	1	1	3
8	United States	USA	1	1	0	2
9	Croatia	CRO	1	0	1	2
10	Chile	CHI	1	0	0	1
=	Vietnam	VIE	1	0	0	1
12	Spain	ESP	0	2	3	5
13	Egypt	EGY	0	1	4	5
14	Serbia	SRB	0	1	2	3
15	Canada	CAN	0	1	1	2
=	Kazakhstan	KAZ	0	1	1	2
17	Greece	GRE	0	1	0	1
=	Hungary	HUN	0	1	0	1
=	Venezuela	VEN	0	1	0	1
20	Brazil	BRA	0	0	1	1
=	Georgia	GEO	0	0	1	1
=	Iran	IRI	0	0	1	1
=	Peru	PER	0	0	1	1
=	Scotland	SCO	0	0	1	1
=	Slovakia	SVK	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
-60 kg, Men	Danil Domdjoni	CRO	Darkhan Asadilov	KAZ	Hossein Rouhani Douglas Brose	IRI BRA
-65 kg, Men	George Kotaka	USA	Ádám Kovács	HUN	William Rollé Takuro Nihei	FRA JPN
-70 kg, Men	Rəfael Ağayev	AZE	Tamer Abdelraouf	EGY	Saeed Baghbani Shinji Nagaki	CAN JPN
-75 kg, Men	David Dubó	CHI	Müslüm Baştürk	TUR	Mohamed Abdelrahman Ko Matsuhisa	EGY JPN
+80 kg, Men	Stefano Maniscalco	ITA	Ibrahim Gary	FRA	Calum Robb Jonathan Horne	SCO GER
-80 kg, Men	Satoshi Ibuchi	JPN	Islamutdin Eldaruchev	RUS	Hany Shakr Alibek Prenov	EGY KAZ
Open Ippon, Men	Rəfael Ağayev	AZE	Spyridon Margaritopoulos	GRE	Stefano Maniscalco Gogita Arkania	ITA GEO
Kumite Team, Men	Turkey	TUR	Serbia	SRB	Egypt Spain	EGY ESP
Kata Individual, Men	Luca Valdesi	ITA	Antonio Díaz	VEN	Vu Duc Minh Dack Mustafa Ibrahim	FRA EGY
Kata Team, Men	France	FRA	Japan	JPN	Peru Italy	PER ITA
-53 kg, Women	Natsuki Fujiwara	JPN	Kora Knühmann	GER	Gülderen Çelik Yelena Ponomareva	TUR RUS
+60 kg, Women	Tiffany Fanjat	FRA	Elisa Au-Fonseca	USA	Yevgeniya Podborodnikova Cristina Feo	RUS ESP
-60 kg, Women	Mariya Sobol	RUS	Nassim Varasteh	CAN	Katarina Strika Vildan Doğan	SRB TUR
Open Ippon, Women	Yuka Sato	JPN	Gloria Casanova	ESP	Ema Aničić Eva Medveďová-Tulejová	CRO SVK
Kumite Team, Women	Germany	GER	Spain	ESP	Italy France	ITA FRA
Kata Individual, Women	Hoàng Ngân Nguyễn	VIE	Sara Battaglia	ITA	Kasuga Wakabayashi Marija Madžarević	JPN SRB
Kata Team, Women	Japan	JPN	France	FRA	Italy Spain	ITA ESP