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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 ...
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.
Abdelaziz and Giana Farouk were the only competitors to win a medal for Egypt in karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Karate will not feature in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. [6] Farouk won one of the bronze medals in the women's 61 kg event the day before. [6] Abdelaziz was the first female Egyptian to have won a gold medal at any Olympic ...
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.
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.
[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.
At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Kokumai competed in the women's kata where she lost her bronze medal match against Viviana Bottaro of Italy. [18] A few months after the Olympics, she also lost her bronze medal match against Bottaro in the women's individual kata event at the 2021 World Karate Championships held in Dubai, United ...