2018 European Karate Championships

The 2018 European Karate Championships were the 53rd edition of the European Karate Championships, and were held in Novi Sad, Serbia from 10 to 13 May 2018.

2018 European Karate Championships
Venue	SPC Vojvodina
Location	Novi Sad, Serbia
Dates	10–13 May
Competitors	532 from 52 nations

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Damián Quintero Spain	Ali Sofuoğlu Turkey	Roman Heydarov Azerbaijan
			Mattia Busato Italy
Team kata	Spain José Carbonell Sergio Galán Francisco Salazar	Russia Maksim Ksenofontov Mehman Rzaev Emil Skovorodnikov	Italy Gianluca Gallo Alessandro Iodice Giuseppe Panagia
			Turkey Duran Kutluhan Emre Vefa Göktaş Ali Sofuoğlu
Kumite −60 kg	Emil Pavlov Macedonia	Angelo Crescenzo Italy	Evgeny Plakhutin Russia
			Kalvis Kalniņš Latvia
Kumite −67 kg	Burak Uygur Turkey	Stefan Joksić Serbia	Stefan Pokorny Austria
			Yves Martial Tadissi Hungary
Kumite −75 kg	Rafael Aghayev Azerbaijan	Gábor Hárspataki Hungary	Stanislav Horuna Ukraine
			Luigi Busà Italy
Kumite −84 kg	Michele Martina Italy	Ivan Kvesić Croatia	Hélio Hernandez Portugal
			Uğur Aktaş Turkey
Kumite +84 kg	Ivan Klepić Bosnia and Herzegovina	Shahin Atamov Azerbaijan	Tyron-Darnell Lardy Netherlands
			Gogita Arkania Georgia
Team kumite	Turkey Rıdvan Kaptan Erman Eltemur Uğur Aktaş Burak Uygur Alpaslan Yamanoğlu Ömer Kemaloğlu Samed Gök	Spain Pablo Arenas Samy Ennkhaili Rodrigo Ibáñez Raúl Cuerva Babacar Seck Jagoba Vizuete Alejandro Molina	Ukraine Ryzvan Talibov Kostiantyn Tsymbal Stanislav Horuna Andriy Toroshanko Ihor Uhnich Valerii Chobotar Oleksandr Grevtsov
			Serbia Dejan Cvrkota Nteros Anastasios Slobodan Bitević Nikola Jovanović Stefan Joksić Uroš Mijalković Vladimir Brežančić

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Sandra Sánchez Spain	Viviana Bottaro Italy	Dilara Eltemur Turkey
			Dorota Balciarová Slovakia
Team kata	Italy Sara Battaglia Michela Pezzetti Terryana D'Onofrio	Spain Marta García Lidia Rodríguez Raquel Roy	France Marie Bui Lila Bui Jessica Hugues
			Turkey Dilara Eltemur Rabia Küsmüş Gizem Sofuoğlu
Kumite −50 kg	Serap Özçelik Arapoğlu Turkey	Bettina Plank Austria	Nurana Aliyeva Azerbaijan
			Alexandra Recchia France
Kumite −55 kg	Anzhelika Terliuga Ukraine	Alessandra Hasani Croatia	Sara Cardin Italy
			Tuba Yakan Turkey
Kumite −61 kg	Lucie Ignace France	Anita Serogina Ukraine	Merve Çoban Turkey
			Tjaša Ristić Slovenia
Kumite −68 kg	Elena Quirici Switzerland	Irina Zaretska Azerbaijan	Silvia Semeraro Italy
			Ivona Ćavar Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kumite +68 kg	Anne-Laure Florentin France	Eleni Chatziliadou Greece	Laura Palacio Spain
			Ana-Marija Bujas Čelan Croatia
Team kumite	Switzerland Noémie Kornfeld Nina Radjenovic Ramona Brüderlin Elena Quirici	Italy Clio Ferracuti Laura Pasqua Sara Cardin Silvia Semeraro	France Léa Avazeri Gwendoline Philippe Nancy Garcia Sophia Bouderbane
			Croatia Alessandra Hasani Ana-Marija Bujas Čelan Ana Lenard Marina Barac

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Serbia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Spain (ESP)	3	2	1	6
2	Turkey (TUR)	3	1	6	10
3	Italy (ITA)	2	3	5	10
4	France (FRA)	2	0	3	5
5	Switzerland (SUI)	2	0	0	2
6	Azerbaijan (AZE)	1	2	2	5
7	Ukraine (UKR)	1	1	2	4
8	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	1	0	1	2
9	Republic of Macedonia (MKD)	1	0	0	1
10	Croatia (CRO)	0	2	2	4
11	Austria (AUT)	0	1	1	2
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
	Russia (RUS)	0	1	1	2
	Serbia (SRB)*	0	1	1	2
15	Greece (GRE)	0	1	0	1
16	Georgia (GEO)	0	0	1	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		16	16	32	64

Participating nations

532 athletes from 52 nations competed.

• Albania (4)
• Andorra (1)
• Armenia (7)
• Austria (13)
• Azerbaijan (15)
• Belarus (12)
• Belgium (12)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (15)
• Bulgaria (11)
• Croatia (16)
• Cyprus (4)
• Czech Republic (9)
• Denmark (12)
• England (14)
• Estonia (6)
• Finland (12)
• France (16)
• FYR Macedonia (13)
• Georgia (6)
• Germany (14)
• Greece (15)
• Hungary (14)
• Iceland (1)
• Ireland (10)
• Israel (13)
• Italy (15)
• Latvia (12)
• Liechtenstein (1)
• Lithuania (9)
• Luxembourg (2)
• Kosovo (13)
• Malta (1)
• Moldova (3)
• Montenegro (15)
• Netherlands (14)
• Northern Ireland (1)
• Norway (7)
• Poland (15)
• Portugal (12)
• Romania (16)
• Russia (16)
• San Marino (1)
• Serbia (16)
• Scotland (5)
• Slovakia (14)
• Slovenia (11)
• Spain (16)
• Sweden (8)
• Switzerland (10)
• Turkey (16)
• Ukraine (14)
• Wales (4)

Para Karate

The first Para-Karate European Championships was held May 10-13 in 2018. 43 athletes from 15 nations in 6 events was competed. Results:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	2	0	1	3
2	France	2	0	0	2
3	Russia	1	2	2	5
4	Spain	1	0	1	2
5	Hungary	0	1	1	2
6	Romania	0	1	0	1
	Serbia	0	1	0	1
	Wales	0	1	0	1
9	Latvia	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		6	6	6	18

External links

• World Karate Federation
• Results (Archived version)