European Karate Championships
Competition details | |
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Discipline | Karate |
Type | team/individual limited and kata, Annual |
Organiser | European Karate Federation (EKF) |
History | |
First edition | 1966 in Paris, France |
The European Karate Championships are organised by the European Karate Federation each year.[1]
History
Events from 1966 to 1996 were organized by the European Karate Union. In 1961, Jacques Delcourt was appointed President of French Karate, which was at that stage, an associated member of the Judo Federation. In 1963, he invited six other known European federations (Italy, Great Britain, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Spain) to come to France for the first-ever international karate event. Great Britain and Belgium accepted the invitation.[2]
By 1965, the European Karate Union was created with Jacques Delcourt voted in as President.[3] The following year the first European Karate Championships were held in Paris. The event drew roughly three hundred spectators and was shown live on television. It drew criticism for being too violent as there were many facial injuries. The EKU council had differing opinions about the cause(s) of the injuries. With opinions ranging from excessive violations of rules to lack of conditioning and blocking skill, this problem was addressed in some part, at the first referee course held in Rome. At that time, the refereeing rules were harmonised using the JKA rules as a basis.[4]
The 2023 event was scheduled to be held in Moscow, Russia but the country was stripped of the right to host the event after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[5]
Championships
EKU Championships (1966–1992) and EKF Championships (since 1993).[6] Para Karate was added to championships since 2018.[7][8][9][10][11]
Medals
All-time medal table Karate (1966–2022)The following reflects the all-time medal counts as of the 1966 European Karate Championships:
| All-time medal table Para Karate (2018–2021)The following reflects the all-time medal counts as of the 2018 European Karate Championships:[12][13][14]
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Medals table Europe Cadet, Junior and U21 (2000–2023)
The following reflects the all-time medal counts as of the 2000 European Karate Cadet, Junior and U21 Championships:
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Spain | 97 | 50 | 81 | 228 |
2 | France | 92 | 70 | 117 | 279 |
3 | Turkey | 92 | 50 | 129 | 271 |
4 | Italy | 81 | 74 | 114 | 269 |
5 | Russia | 32 | 34 | 74 | 140 |
6 | Azerbaijan | 29 | 8 | 30 | 67 |
7 | Slovakia | 24 | 30 | 65 | 119 |
8 | Germany | 22 | 31 | 67 | 120 |
9 | Croatia | 18 | 42 | 66 | 126 |
10 | Ukraine | 17 | 15 | 29 | 61 |
11 | Greece | 15 | 16 | 51 | 82 |
12 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 14 | 26 | 32 | 72 |
13 | Netherlands | 14 | 10 | 20 | 44 |
14 | Serbia | 12 | 30 | 43 | 85 |
15 | Great Britain | 12 | 28 | 58 | 98 |
16 | Hungary | 12 | 17 | 32 | 61 |
17 | Denmark | 9 | 15 | 17 | 41 |
18 | Belgium | 8 | 13 | 28 | 49 |
19 | North Macedonia | 8 | 10 | 25 | 43 |
20 | Montenegro | 8 | 8 | 25 | 41 |
21 | Switzerland | 6 | 9 | 16 | 31 |
22 | Portugal | 5 | 10 | 25 | 40 |
23 | Estonia | 5 | 2 | 4 | 11 |
24 | Latvia | 4 | 5 | 8 | 17 |
Luxembourg | 4 | 5 | 8 | 17 | |
26 | Bulgaria | 3 | 4 | 13 | 20 |
27 | Austria | 3 | 1 | 15 | 19 |
28 | Belarus | 2 | 11 | 25 | 38 |
29 | Czech Republic | 2 | 10 | 23 | 35 |
30 | Poland | 2 | 3 | 14 | 19 |
31 | Georgia | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 |
32 | Sweden | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 |
33 | Moldova | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
34 | Slovenia | 1 | 10 | 15 | 26 |
35 | Serbia and Montenegro | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
36 | Scotland | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
37 | Israel | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
Kosovo | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | |
39 | Cyprus | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
40 | Romania | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 |
41 | Albania | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
42 | Armenia | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
43 | Norway | 0 | 0 | 19 | 19 |
44 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Totals (44 entries) | 665 | 663 | 1,334 | 2,662 |
See also
- European Juniors Karate Championships
- fr:Championnats d'Europe de karaté juniors et cadets
References
- ^ "Karate: Ancient pursuit in need of new face: Whitney Limbaugh reports from Birmingham, U.. on a sport's desire to upgrade their image". The Independent. Retrieved 2014-11-06.
- ^ "WORLD KARATE FEDERATION - WKF History". Wkf-web.net. Archived from the original on 8 November 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
- ^ Arriaza, Rafael (March 2009). "Chapter 16: Karate". In Kordi, Ramin; Maffulli, Nicola; Wroble, Randall R.; et al. (eds.). Combat Sports Medicine. Springer. p. 288. ISBN 9781848003545. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
- ^ "Black Belt". August 1966. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- ^ Iveson, Ali (5 March 2022). "Moscow removed as host of 2023 European Karate Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ^ "47th European Senior Karate Championships : MEDALS TABLE" (PDF). Rfek.es. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- ^ "EKF Online Registration: EKF PARA-Karate Championships 2018".
- ^ "EKF Online Registration: EKF PARA-Karate Championships 2019 - Guadalajara".
- ^ "EKF Online Registration: EKF PARA-Karate Championships 2020 - Baku".
- ^ "EKF Online Registration: EKF PARA-Karate Championships 2021 - Porec".
- ^ "Para-Karate athletes set to shine at first European Championships".
- ^ "Set-Online WKF".
- ^ "Set-Online WKF".
- ^ "Set-Online WKF".
External links
- European Karate Federation
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