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The competition began with a two-pool round-robin stage followed by a single elimination stage. Each pool consisted of five athletes, with those positioned 1st and 4th seeded to Pool A, and those positioned 2nd and 3rd to Pool B.
Kiyou Shimizu (清水希容, Shimizu Kiyō, born 7 December 1993) [2] [3] is a Japanese karateka competing in the women's kata event. She won the silver medal in the women's kata event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. [4] Shimizu is also a two-time gold medalist at the World Karate Championships and a three-time gold medalist at the ...
In May 2021, Bottaro won one of the bronze medals in the women's individual kata event at the European Karate Championships held in Poreč, Croatia. [9] [10] A few months later, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's kata event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. In October 2021, she won the gold medal in her event at the 2021 Mediterranean ...
Alexandrea Anacan is a Philippine-born New Zealand karate athlete. A resident of Auckland, Anacan represents New Zealand internationally.She is a four-time consecutive gold medalist in the World Karate Federation (Continental Championship) Oceanian Karate Federation (OKF), entering competition in 2016.
She won bronze in the women's kata event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, becoming the first Hong Kong athlete to win an Olympic medal in karate. [3] [4] She is a three-time medallist in the women's individual kata event at the World Karate Championships. She is also a medallist in this event at the Asian Games and the World Beach ...
[7] [8] [9] In 2009, in the 121st International Olympic Committee voting, karate did not receive the necessary two-thirds majority vote to become an Olympic sport. [10] Karate was being considered for the 2020 Olympics; [11] however, at a meeting of the IOC's executive board, held in Russia on 29 May 2013, it was decided that karate (along with ...
She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 61 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. [1] [2] She is a two-time gold medalist in the women's kumite 61 kg event at the World Karate Championships. [3] She is also a gold medalist in her event at the African Games, the Islamic Solidarity Games and the Mediterranean Games.
Competitors were divided into two pools of 5 or 6, and each took turns to perform two sets of kata in the elimination round. The top-three competitors by average score in each pool advanced to the ranking round, where they performed a third set of kata.