Karate at the European Games

Karate has been a European Games sport since the inaugural edition.

Editions

Games	Year	Events	Best Nation
I	2015	12	Azerbaijan
II	2019	12	Spain
III	2023	12	Ukraine

Venues

Games	Venue	Other sports hosted at venue	Capacity	Ref.
2015 Baku	Crystal Hall	Fencing, taekwondo	2,000	^[1]
2019 Minsk	Chizhovka-Arena	Judo	8,800
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Dębowiec Sports Arena (Bielsko-Biała)	–	4,500
2027 Istanbul

Events

Event	15	19	23	Years

Men's individual kata	X	X	X	3
Men's kumite 60 kg	X	X	X	3
Men's kumite 67 kg	X	X	X	3
Men's kumite 75 kg	X	X	X	3
Men's kumite 84 kg	X	X	X	3
Men's kumite +84 kg	X	X	X	3
Women's individual kata	X	X	X	3
Women's kumite 50 kg	X	X	X	3
Women's kumite 55 kg	X	X	X	3
Women's kumite 61 kg	X	X	X	3
Women's kumite 68 kg	X	X	X	3
Women's kumite +68 kg	X	X	X	3

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Azerbaijan (AZE)	7	3	4	14
2	Spain (ESP)	7	0	1	8
3	Turkey (TUR)	4	7	10	21
4	Ukraine (UKR)	4	2	3	9
5	Croatia (CRO)	3	2	1	6
6	Italy (ITA)	2	7	7	16
7	France (FRA)	2	3	4	9
8	Austria (AUT)	2	2	0	4
9	Germany (GER)	2	1	2	5
10	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	0	2
11	Albania (ALB)	1	0	0	1
11	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
13	Greece (GRE)	0	3	3	6
14	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	2	3
15	Montenegro (MNE)	0	1	1	2
16	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
16	Slovenia (SLO)	0	1	0	1
18	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	2	2
	Georgia (GEO)	0	0	2	2
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	2	2
	Luxembourg (LUX)	0	0	2	2
	North Macedonia (MKD)	0	0	2	2
	Poland (POL)	0	0	2	2
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	2	2
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	2	2
26	Armenia (ARM)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Cyprus (CYP)	0	0	1	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (31 entries)		36	35	60	131

Medalists

Men's

Individual kata

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku	Damián Quintero Spain	Mattia Busato Italy	Mehmet Yakan Turkey
2019 Minsk	Damián Quintero Spain	Ali Sofuoğlu Turkey	Roman Heydarov Azerbaijan
2019 Minsk	Damián Quintero Spain	Ali Sofuoğlu Turkey	Mattia Busato Italy
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Damián Quintero Spain	Ali Sofuoğlu Turkey	Yuki Ujihara Switzerland
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Damián Quintero Spain	Ali Sofuoğlu Turkey	Mattia Busato Italy

Kumite 60 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku	Firdovsi Farzaliyev Azerbaijan	Luca Maresca Italy	Emil Pavlov Macedonia
2019 Minsk	Kalvis Kalniņš Latvia	Firdovsi Farzaliyev Azerbaijan	Angelo Crescenzo Italy
2019 Minsk	Kalvis Kalniņš Latvia	Firdovsi Farzaliyev Azerbaijan	Evgeny Plakhutin Russia
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Eray Şamdan Turkey	Christos-Stefanos Xenos Greece	Angelo Crescenzo Italy
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Eray Şamdan Turkey	Christos-Stefanos Xenos Greece	Nikita Filipov Ukraine

Kumite 67 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku	Burak Uygur Turkey	Steven Da Costa France	Niyazi Aliyev Azerbaijan
2019 Minsk	Luca Maresca Italy	Mario Hodžić Montenegro	Artsiom Krautsou Belarus
2019 Minsk	Luca Maresca Italy	Mario Hodžić Montenegro	Yves Martial Tadissi Hungary
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Tural Aghalarzade Azerbaijan	Dionysios Xenos Greece	Ştefan Comănescu Romania
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Tural Aghalarzade Azerbaijan	Dionysios Xenos Greece	Miłosz Sabiecki Poland

Kumite 75 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku	Rafael Aghayev Azerbaijan	Luigi Busà Italy	Erman Eltemur Turkey
2019 Minsk	Stanislav Horuna Ukraine	Rafael Aghayev Azerbaijan	Pavel Artamonov Estonia
2019 Minsk	Stanislav Horuna Ukraine	Rafael Aghayev Azerbaijan	Gábor Hárspataki Hungary
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Andrii Zaplitnyi Ukraine	Daniele De Vivo Italy	Erman Eltemur Turkey
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Andrii Zaplitnyi Ukraine	Daniele De Vivo Italy	Quentin Mahauden Belgium

Kumite 84 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku	Aykhan Mamayev Azerbaijan	Michail Georgos Tzanos Greece	Uğur Aktaş Turkey
2019 Minsk	Ivan Kvesić Croatia	Uğur Aktaş Turkey	Michele Martina Italy
2019 Minsk	Ivan Kvesić Croatia	Uğur Aktaş Turkey	Valerii Chobotar Ukraine
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Alvin Karaqi Albania	Brian Timmermans Netherlands	Michał Bąbos Poland
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Alvin Karaqi Albania	Brian Timmermans Netherlands	Michele Martina Italy

Kumite +84 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku	Enes Erkan Turkey	Jonathan Horne Germany	Martin Nestorovski Macedonia
2019 Minsk	Asiman Gurbanli Azerbaijan	Anđelo Kvesić Croatia	Gogita Arkania Georgia
2019 Minsk	Asiman Gurbanli Azerbaijan	Anđelo Kvesić Croatia	Jonathan Horne Germany
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Anđelo Kvesić Croatia	Not awarded^[a]	Asiman Gurbanli Azerbaijan
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Anđelo Kvesić Croatia	Not awarded^[a]	Gogita Arkania Georgia

^Note Fatih Şen of Turkey was disqualified due to unsportsmanlike behavior by shikkaku.^[2]^[3]

Women's

Individual kata

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku	Sandra Sánchez Spain	Sandy Scordo France	Dilara Bozan Turkey
2019 Minsk	Sandra Sánchez Spain	Viviana Bottaro Italy	Patrícia Esparteiro Portugal
2019 Minsk	Sandra Sánchez Spain	Viviana Bottaro Italy	Dilara Bozan Turkey
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Paola García Spain	Helvétia Taily France	Georgina Xenou Greece
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Paola García Spain	Helvétia Taily France	Ana Cruz Portugal

Kumite 50 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku	Serap Özçelik Turkey	Bettina Plank Austria	Alexandra Recchia France
2019 Minsk	Bettina Plank Austria	Serap Özçelik Turkey	Mariya Koulinkovitch Belarus
2019 Minsk	Bettina Plank Austria	Serap Özçelik Turkey	Sophia Bouderbane France
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Bettina Plank Austria	Erminia Perfetto Italy	Irene Kontou Cyprus
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Bettina Plank Austria	Erminia Perfetto Italy	Serap Özçelik Arapoğlu Turkey

Kumite 55 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku	Emily Thouy France	Jelena Kovačević Croatia	Ilaha Qasimova Azerbaijan
2019 Minsk	Ivet Goranova Bulgaria	Anzhelika Terliuga Ukraine	Jana Bitsch Germany
2019 Minsk	Ivet Goranova Bulgaria	Anzhelika Terliuga Ukraine	Jennifer Warling Luxembourg
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Anzhelika Terliuga Ukraine	Ivet Goranova Bulgaria	Jennifer Warling Luxembourg
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Anzhelika Terliuga Ukraine	Ivet Goranova Bulgaria	Tuba Yakan Turkey

Kumite 61 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku	Lucie Ignace France	Merve Çoban Turkey	Ana Lenard Croatia
2019 Minsk	Anita Serogina Ukraine	Tjaša Ristić Slovenia	Gwendoline Philippe France
2019 Minsk	Anita Serogina Ukraine	Tjaša Ristić Slovenia	Merve Çoban Turkey
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Reem Khamis Germany	Anita Serogina Ukraine	Alessandra Mangiacapra Italy
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Reem Khamis Germany	Anita Serogina Ukraine	Gülbahar Gözütok Turkey

Kumite 68 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku	Irina Zaretska Azerbaijan	Alisa Buchinger Austria	Marina Raković Montenegro
2019 Minsk	Silvia Semeraro Italy	Irina Zaretska Azerbaijan	Elena Quirici Switzerland
2019 Minsk	Silvia Semeraro Italy	Irina Zaretska Azerbaijan	Halyna Melnyk Ukraine
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Irina Zaretska Azerbaijan	Elena Quirici Switzerland	Anita Makyan Armenia
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Irina Zaretska Azerbaijan	Elena Quirici Switzerland	Alizée Agier France

Kumite +68 kg

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015 Baku	Maša Martinović Croatia	Meltem Hocaoğlu Turkey	Ivanna Zaytseva Russia
2019 Minsk	Laura Palacio Spain	Meltem Hocaoğlu Turkey	Titta Keinänen Finland
2019 Minsk	Laura Palacio Spain	Meltem Hocaoğlu Turkey	Eleni Chatziliadou Greece
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Johanna Kneer Germany	Clio Ferracuti Italy	Kyriaki Kydonaki Greece
2023 Kraków-Małopolska	Johanna Kneer Germany	Clio Ferracuti Italy	María Torres Spain

Participating nations

Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Monaco and San Marino have yet to qualify for the competition in karate.

Nation	15	19	23	Years

Andorra (AND)		1		1
Albania (ALB)	1		1	2
Armenia (ARM)			1	1
Austria (AUT)	2	2	1	3
Azerbaijan (AZE)	12	7	8	3
Belarus (BLR)	1	12		2
Belgium (BEL)	1	1	1	3
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)			1	1
Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	1	3
Croatia (CRO)	6	2	3	3
Cyprus (CYP)	1		1	2
Czech Republic (CZE)	1	1	1	3
Denmark (DEN)	1	1	1	3
Estonia (EST)		1		1
Finland (FIN)	2	1	1	3
France (FRA)	10	7	3	3
Georgia (GEO)	1	1	2	3
Germany (GER)	5	6	5	3
Great Britain (GBR)		2	1	2
Greece (GRE)	3	1	6	3
Hungary (HUN)	1	2	2	3
Iceland (ISL)	1			1
Ireland (IRL)	1			1
Israel (ISR)			1	1
Italy (ITA)	4	6	9	3
Kosovo (KOS)	1	2		2
Latvia (LAT)	1	1		2
Luxembourg (LUX)	1	1	1	3
Montenegro (MNE)	1	2	1	3
Netherlands (NED)	1	1	2	3
North Macedonia (MKD)	2	1	1	3
Norway (NOR)	1	1		2
Poland (POL)	1	1	12	3
Portugal (POR)	1	1	2	3
Romania (ROM)	1	1	1	3
Russia (RUS)	2	1		2
Serbia (SRB)	3	3		2
Slovakia (SVK)	1	1	1	3
Slovenia (SLO)	1	1		2
Spain (ESP)	7	4	5	3
Sweden (SWE)	1	1	1	3
Switzerland (SUI)	1	1	3	3
Turkey (TUR)	11	11	9	3
Ukraine (UKR)	3	6	7	3

Total countries	38	37	33	44
Total athletes	96	96	96
Year	15	19	23

References

^ "Baku Sports Hall". Inside the Games. 26 January 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
^ "Karate – Official communication – Men's kumite +84kg" (PDF). results.european-games.org. 23 June 2023. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
^ "Great fans, brave athletes, wonderful atmosphere. The end of the karate competition". european-games.org. 23 June 2023. Retrieved 20 April 2024.

External links

European Karate Federation homepage

[1] "Baku Sports Hall". Inside the Games. 26 January 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2024.

[2] "Karate – Official communication – Men's kumite +84kg" (PDF). results.european-games.org. 23 June 2023. Retrieved 20 April 2024.

[3] "Great fans, brave athletes, wonderful atmosphere. The end of the karate competition". european-games.org. 23 June 2023. Retrieved 20 April 2024.

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