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Karate At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 55 Kg
The women's kumite 55 kg competition in Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 5 August 2021 at the Nippon Budokan. Competition format The competition began with a two-pool round-robin stage followed by a single elimination stage. Each pool consisted of 4 or 5 athletes, with those positioned 1st and 4th seeded to Pool A, and those positioned 2nd and 3rd to Pool B. The athlete that finished first in Pool A faced the athlete that finished second in Pool B in the semifinals, and vice versa. There were no bronze medal matches in the kumite events. Losers of the semifinals each received a bronze medal. Schedule All times are in local time (UTC+9 UTC+09:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +09:00. During the Japanese occupations of British Borneo, Burma, Hong Kong, Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Philippines, Singapore, and French Indochina, it was used as a common time with ...). Results Pool stage ;Pool A ;Pool B Finals References External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nippon Budokan
The , often shortened to simply Budokan, is an indoor arena located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally built for the inaugural Olympic judo competition in the 1964 Summer Olympics. While its primary purpose is to host martial arts contests, the arena has gained additional fame as one of the world's most outstanding musical performance venues. The Budokan was a popular venue for Japanese professional wrestling for a time, and it has hosted numerous other sporting events such as the 1967 Women's Volleyball World Championship. Most recently, the arena hosted the Olympic debut of karate (; ; Okinawan language, Okinawan pronunciation: ) is a martial arts, martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the Okinawan martial arts, indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called , "hand"; ''tii'' in Okinawan) under the ... in the 2020 Summer Olympics, as well as the judo competition at both the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Paralympics. A number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivet Goranova
Ivet Goranova ( bg, Ивет Горанова, born 6 March 2000) is a Bulgarian karateka. She won the gold medal in the Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 55 kg, women's 55kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She also won the gold medal in Karate at the 2019 European Games – Women's kumite 55 kg, her event at the 2019 European Games held in Minsk, Belarus. Career In 2018, Goranova won one of the bronze medals in the women's kumite 55 kg event at the 2018 World Karate Championships, World Karate Championships held in Madrid, Spain. In 2019, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's kumite 55 kg event at the 2019 European Karate Championships, European Karate Championships held in Guadalajara, Spain. In that same year, Goranova won the gold medal in the Karate at the 2019 European Games – Women's kumite 55 kg, women's kumite 55 kg event at the 2019 European Games, European Games held in Minsk, Belarus. In the final, she defeated A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anzhelika Terliuga
Anzhelika Terliuga ( uk, Анжеліка Володимирівна Терлюга, born March 23, 1992) is a Ukrainian karateka competing in the kumite -55 kg division. Career Terliuga won the silver medal in the women's 55 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She won the gold medal in the women's 55 kg event at the 2022 World Games held in Birmingham, United States. She is also a multiple European champion and medalist, 2017 Grand winner Karate 1 Premier League of the Female Kumite (-55 kg). In November 2021, Terliuga competed in the women's 55 kg event at the 2021 World Karate Championships held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. She won the gold medal in the women's 55kg event at the 2023 European Games held in Poland. Terliuga won one of the bronze medals in the women's 55kg event at the 2023 World Karate Championships held in Budapest, Hungary. At the 2023 World Championships, she initially defeated Ivet Goranova Ivet Goranova ( bg, Иве ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettina Plank
Bettina Plank (born 24 February 1992) is an Austrian karateka. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 55 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She is a two-time bronze medalist in the women's 50kg event at the World Karate Championships and a three-time medalist, including two gold medals, at the European Games. Plank also won the gold medal in her event at the 2015 European Karate Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. Career Plank won one of the bronze medals in the women's kumite 50kg event at the 2011 European Karate Championships held in Zürich, Switzerland. In 2014, she won the silver medal in her event at the European Karate Championships held in Tampere, Finland. In 2015, Plank won the gold medal in the women's kumite 50kg event at the European Karate Championships held in Istanbul, Turkey. She also won one of the bronze medals in the women's team kumite event. In that same year, Plank won the silver medal in that event at the European Games in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wen Tzu-yun
Wen Tzu-yun (, born 29 September 1993) is a Taiwanese karateka. At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's 55kg event. She is also a two-time gold medalist in the women's kumite 55kg event at the Asian Games and a two-time bronze medalist in this event at the World Karate Championships. Career She won the gold medal in the women's 55kg event at the Asian Games both in 2014 and in 2018. She won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2016 World University Karate Championships held in Braga, Portugal. She also won the silver medal in the women's team kumite event. At the 2017 World Games held in Wrocław, Poland, she won the silver medal in the women's kumite 55kg event. In the final, she lost against Valéria Kumizaki of Brazil. She represented Chinese Taipei at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan in karate. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 55kg event. In her semifinal she lost against eventual silv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karate
(; ; Okinawan language, Okinawan pronunciation: ) is a martial arts, martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the Okinawan martial arts, indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called , "hand"; ''tii'' in Okinawan) under the influence of Chinese martial arts, particularly Fujian White Crane. Karate is now predominantly a striking art using Punch (combat), punching, kicking, knee (strike), knee strikes, elbow strikes and open-hand techniques such as Knifehand strike, knife-hands, spear-hands and palm-heel strikes. Historically, and in some modern styles, grappling, throws, joint locks, restraints and kyusho-jitsu, vital-point strikes are also taught. A karate practitioner is called a . The Empire of Japan annexed the Ryukyu Kingdom in 1879. Karate came to mainland Japan in the early 20th century during a time of migration as Ryukyuans, especially from Okinawa, looked for work in the main islands of Japan. It was systematically taught in Japan after the Taishō ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Summer Olympics
The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 7 September 2013. The Games were originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, but due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, on 24 March 2020, the event was postponed to 2021, the first such instance in the history of the Olympic Games (previous games had been cancelled but not rescheduled). However, the event retained the ''Tokyo 2020'' branding for marketing purpose.Multiple sources: * * * It was largely held behind closed doors with no public spectators permitted due to the declaration of a state of emergency in the Greater Tokyo Area in response to the pandemic, the first and so far only Olympic Games to be held without official spectators. The Games were the mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Karate Federation
The World Karate Federation (WKF) is the largest international governing body of sport karate with 198 member countries. It was formed in 1990, is the only karate organization recognised by the International Olympic Committee and has more than ten million members. The WKF organizes the Junior and Senior Karate World Championships, which are each held every other year. The President of the WKF is Antonio Espinos, and the headquarters are located in Madrid, Spain. All the styles are officially recognised by the WKF. History Karate was introduced into Europe around the 1950s by Japanese masters, mainly from the Japan Karate Association (JKA). In 1961, Jacques Delcourt was appointed President of French Karate Federation, which was at that stage an associated member of the French Judo Federation. In 1963 he invited the six other known European federations (Italy, Great Britain, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Spain) to come to France for the first-ever international karate event, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Bahmanyar
Sara Bahmanyar ( fa, سارا بهمنیار, born 21 March 1999) is an Iranian karateka. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's kumite 50kg event at the 2018 World Karate Championships held in Madrid, Spain. She represented Iran at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan in the women's kumite 55kg event. She won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2022 Asian Karate Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She also won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2023 Asian Karate Championships held in Melaka, Malaysia. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 50kg event at the 2022 Asian Games The 2022 Asian Games (), officially known as the 19th Asian Games (), also known as Hangzhou 2022, ( zh, c=杭州2022, p=Hángzhōu Èr líng èr èr), will be a multi-sport event celebrated in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Hangzhou will be the t ... held in Hangzhou, China. She defeated Miho Miyahara of Japan in her bronze medal match. Achievements ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serap Özçelik
Serap Özçelik Arapoğlu (born February 18, 1988) is a Turkish karateka, who competes in the kumite 50–53 kg divisions. She won a world title in 2014 and a European title in 2011, 2012 and 2014. Özçelik took up karate in 2000 at Eyüp, Istanbul, and in 2005 was included to the national team. She is a member of EGO Sport Club in Ankara. Özçelik works as a teacher of physical education in Yaşar Doğu Primary School in Kağıthane, Istanbul. At the 2013 World Games held in Cali, Colombia, she won the gold medal in the women's kumite 50 kg event. In the final she defeated Alexandra Recchia of France. She represented Turkey at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She competed in the women's 55 kg event. She lost her bronze medal match in the women's 50 kg event at the 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria. She won the silver medal in the women's 50kg event at the 2023 European Karate Championships The 2023 European Karate Championships wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radwa Sayed
Radwa Sayed is an Egyptian karateka. She is a bronze medalist at the World Karate Championships and a two-time medalist at the African Games. In 2021, she represented Egypt in the women's 55 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. Career In 2016, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's 50 kg event at the World Karate Championships held in Linz, Austria. She won the silver medal in her event at the 2019 African Karate Championships held in Gaborone, Botswana. She represented Egypt at the 2019 African Games held in Rabat, Morocco and she won the silver medal in the women's kumite 50 kg event. She also won one of the bronze medals in this event at the 2015 African Games held in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo. In 2021, she competed at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Paris, France hoping to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miho Miyahara
Miho Miyahara (宮原 美穂, ''Miyahara Miho'', born 3 September 1996) is a Japanese karateka. She is a two-time gold medalist in the women's kumite 50 kg event at the World Karate Championships (2018 and 2021). She also won the gold medal in this event at the 2018 Asian Karate Championships. Miyahara represented Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan in karate. She competed in the women's 55 kg event. Career Miyahara won the silver medal in the women's 50kg event at the 2016 World Karate Championships held in Linz, Austria. In the final, she lost against Alexandra Recchia of France. In 2017, Miyahara repeated this result with the silver medal in the women's kumite 50kg event at the World Games in Wrocław, Poland. The gold medal also went to Alexandra Recchia. At the 2018 Asian Karate Championships held in Amman, Jordan, Miyahara won the gold medal in the women's kumite 50kg event. A few days later, she won the gold medal in the women's kumite 50kg event at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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