2006 World Karate Championships

2006 World Karate Championships
Host city	Tampere, Finland
Dates	12–15 October
Main venue	Tampereen jäähalli
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The 2006 World Karate Championships are the 18th edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Tampere, Finland from October 12 to October 15, 2006.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Luca Valdesi Italy	Takashi Katada Japan	Akio Tamashiro Peru
Individual kata	Luca Valdesi Italy	Takashi Katada Japan	Antonio Díaz Venezuela
Team kata	Italy Vincenzo Figuccio Lucio Maurino Luca Valdesi	France Julien Dupont Ayoub Neghliz Jonathan Plagnol	Japan
Team kata	Italy Vincenzo Figuccio Lucio Maurino Luca Valdesi	France Julien Dupont Ayoub Neghliz Jonathan Plagnol	Egypt
Kumite −60 kg	Hossein Rouhani Iran	Gurban Taghiyev Azerbaijan	Montassar Tabben Tunisia
Kumite −60 kg	Hossein Rouhani Iran	Gurban Taghiyev Azerbaijan	Ibrahim Khalifa Egypt
Kumite −65 kg	César Castaño Spain	Luis Plumacher Venezuela	Donny Dharmawan Indonesia
Kumite −65 kg	César Castaño Spain	Luis Plumacher Venezuela	Marko Lučić Croatia
Kumite −70 kg	Rafael Aghayev Azerbaijan	Diego Vandeschrick Belgium	Saeid Farrokhi Iran
Kumite −70 kg	Rafael Aghayev Azerbaijan	Diego Vandeschrick Belgium	Takuro Nihei Japan
Kumite −75 kg	Jasem Vishkaei Iran	David Santana Spain	El-Sayed El-Feky Egypt
Kumite −75 kg	Jasem Vishkaei Iran	David Santana Spain	Ko Matsuhisa Japan
Kumite −80 kg	Luigi Busà Italy	Mohamed Abdelrahman Egypt	Esmaeil Torkzad Iran
Kumite −80 kg	Luigi Busà Italy	Mohamed Abdelrahman Egypt	Philippe Poirier Canada
Kumite +80 kg	Marko Luhamaa Estonia	Mohanad Magdy Egypt	Stefano Maniscalco Italy
Kumite +80 kg	Marko Luhamaa Estonia	Mohanad Magdy Egypt	Yann Baillon France
Kumite open	Stefano Maniscalco Italy	Daniël Sabanovic Netherlands	Khalid Khalidov Kazakhstan
Kumite open	Stefano Maniscalco Italy	Daniël Sabanovic Netherlands	Iván Leal Spain
Team kumite	Spain Iván Leal Francisco Martínez Óscar Martínez Cristian Rodríguez Antonio Sánchez David Santana Óscar Vázquez	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Egypt
Team kumite		Bosnia and Herzegovina	England

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Sara Battaglia Italy	Nguyễn Hoàng Ngân Vietnam	Myriam Szkudlarek France
Individual kata	Sara Battaglia Italy	Nguyễn Hoàng Ngân Vietnam	Eimi Kurita United States
Team kata	France Jessica Buil Sabrina Buil Laëtitia Guesnel	Japan	Spain Miriam Cogolludo Ruth Jiménez Almudena Muñoz
Team kata	France Jessica Buil Sabrina Buil Laëtitia Guesnel	Japan	Peru
Kumite −53 kg	Tomoko Araga Japan	Selene Guglielmi Italy	Heba El-Sayed Egypt
Kumite −53 kg	Tomoko Araga Japan	Selene Guglielmi Italy	Kora Knühmann Germany
Kumite −60 kg	Eva Medveďová Slovakia	Nassim Varasteh Canada	Diana Schwab Switzerland
Kumite −60 kg	Eva Medveďová Slovakia	Nassim Varasteh Canada	Yuka Sato Japan
Kumite +60 kg	Laurence Fischer France	Ayaka Arai Japan	Jessica Bratich Australia
Kumite +60 kg	Laurence Fischer France	Ayaka Arai Japan	Tamara Filipović Serbia
Kumite open	Yıldız Aras Turkey	Yadira Lira Mexico	Claudia Niţu Romania
Kumite open	Yıldız Aras Turkey	Yadira Lira Mexico	Snežana Perić Serbia
Team kumite	Japan	Spain Gloria Casanova Irene Colomar Cristina Feo Lucía Zamora	Germany Jeannine Herrgesell Kora Knühmann Silvia Sperner Nadine Ziemer
Team kumite	Japan		Switzerland Fanny Clavien Reta Duverney Marilena Rubini Diana Schwab

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	5	1	1	7
2	Japan	2	3	4	9
3	Spain	2	2	2	6
4	France	2	1	2	5
5	Iran	2	0	2	4
6	Azerbaijan	1	1	0	2
7	Estonia	1	0	0	1
	Slovakia	1	0	0	1
	Turkey	1	0	0	1
10	Egypt	0	2	5	7
11	Canada	0	1	1	2
11	Venezuela	0	1	1	2
13	Belgium	0	1	0	1
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	1	0	1
	Mexico	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
	Vietnam	0	1	0	1
18	Germany	0	0	2	2
	Peru	0	0	2	2
	Serbia	0	0	2	2
	Switzerland	0	0	2	2
22	Australia	0	0	1	1
	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	England	0	0	1	1
	Indonesia	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (29 entries)		17	17	34	68