Being held as an Olympic sport for the first time ever, the various karate competitions will be worth having an eye on in Tokyo All karate competitions for Tokyo 2021 will take place at the Nippon ...

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The World Karate Federation (WKF) Executive Committee approved a one-year delay to the event, which had been scheduled to take place from November 17 to 22, during its meeting yesterday. Postponing ...

Karate is one of the five new sports at this year’s Olympics in Tokyo. Karate competitions will take place between August 4 to 7. Karate means “empty hand” in Kanji. Many believe the sport originated ...

A Bemis Junior High School student is a karate world champion. Last month, Dania Crnkic, an eighth-grader at the Utica Community Schools junior high won first place in continuous sparring, commonly ...

A karateka from Iran was knocked out but still won a gold medal due to his opponent’s disqualification Despite getting knocked out and being left unable to continue the Olympic gold-medal matchup, a ...

The women's solo "kata" competition kicked off karate's first foray into the Olympics on Thursday with the 10 karateka performing routines in a hushed, spectator-less Nippon Budokan arena, the ...

For La Jolla High School junior Koji Lavinsky, winning karate championships is a matter of heart and hard work. In late September, Koji, 16, took home two gold medals and a bronze medal at the World ...

TOKYO (AP) — The final bout of karate’s Olympic debut seemed to have everything that makes combat sports so fascinating, right down to an incredible ending that should have made fans hungry for more ...

TOKYO — The ancient martial art of Karate made its debut at the Summer Olympics in Japan this week. The sport was added as a nod to the country where it developed 700 years ago. There are two types of ...

TOKYO – For karateka Ariel Torres, the first American to win an Olympic medal in karate, the road to Tokyo started with a phone call, worn underwear and a Sharpie. Five years before he took bronze in ...