2021 World Kata Championships

Venue| Estádio Universitário de Lisboa
Location| Lisbon, Portugal
Dates| 26–27 October 2021

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The 2021 World Kata Championships were held from 26 to 27 October 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal.[1][2] During the 2021 World Kata Championships the athletes entered could perform in 5 kata (Nage-no-kata, Katame-no-kata, Ju-no-kata, Kime-no-kata, Kodokan-Goshin-jutsu), two of which (Nage-no-kata and katame-no-kata) were also accessible for the first time to junior competitors aged under 23.[3][4]

## Medalists[edit]

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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Nage-no-kata  |  Netherlands
Erik Faes
Niels Neumann |  Colombia
Glatenferd Escobar
Miguel Bermúdez |  Spain
Antonio Marín Gómez Nieves
Eduardo Ayala Torrado
Katame-no-kata  |  Japan
Ryuji Kabata
Toshiji Odaten |  Italy
Andrea Fregnan
Pietro Corcioni |  Belgium
Nicolas Gilon
Jean-Philippe Gilon
Ju-no-kata  |  Japan
Momoko Ishida
Mariko Ishida |  Germany
Wolfgang Dax-Romswinkel
Ursula Loosen |  Romania
Alina Zaharia
Alina Cheru
Kime-no-kata  |  France
Michel Jeuffroy
Laurent Jeuffroy |  France
Grégory Marques
Stéphane Bega |  Spain
Miguel Ángel Vicens Siquier
Antonio Vicens Siquier
Kodokan-goshin-jutsu  |  Japan
Koo Ikeda
Fumitaka Sakamaki |  France
Claude Jaume
Brice Bénard |  Portugal
Pedro Gonçalves
Paulo Moreira
Nage-no-kata (junior)  |  France
Victoria Kraska
Dylan Meddour |  Russian Judo Federation
Nikolai Zhikharev
Iaroslav Zhikharev |  Poland
Aleksandra Masternak
Patryk Urban
Katame-no-kata (junior)  |  France
Dylan Meddour
Victoria Kraska |  Portugal
João Baptista
José Farias |  Russian Judo Federation
Vladislav Burmentev
Daniil Sidorov

## Medal table[edit]

* Host nation (Portugal)

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  France| 3| 2| 0| 5
2|  Japan| 3| 0| 0| 3
3|  Netherlands| 1| 0| 0| 1
4|  Portugal*| 0| 1| 1| 2
Russian Judo Federation| 0| 1| 1| 2
6|  Colombia| 0| 1| 0| 1
Germany| 0| 1| 0| 1
Italy| 0| 1| 0| 1
9|  Spain| 0| 0| 2| 2
10|  Belgium| 0| 0| 1| 1
Poland| 0| 0| 1| 1
Romania| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (12 entries)| 7| 7| 7| 21

## Results[edit]

### Nage-no-kata[edit]

#### Group 1[edit]

Place | Athletes | Country | Points

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1 | Glatenferd Escobar
Miguel Bermúdez |  Colombia | 412.5
2 | Antonio Marín Gómez Nieves
Eduardo Ayala Torrado |  Spain | 406.0
3 | Yagoub Al-Shmrani
Ali Meneiawi |  Saudi Arabia | 401.0
4 | Ludovic Germa
Jessie Vinette |  France | 400.5
5 | Maik van der Hulst
Kevin van der Hulst |  Netherlands | 396.5
6 | Fabiano Rodrigo de Barros
Yann Fiorda Prando |  Brazil | 391.5
7 | Nuno Ferreira
Diogo Ferreira |  Portugal | 388.5
8 | Maciej Pudłowski
Anita Krawczyk |  Poland | 375.0
9 | Gino Gianmarco Stefanel
Alessandro Cugini |  Italy | 373.5
10 | Gerardo Tello
Sergio Suguieda |  United States | 343.5
11 | Klaudia Wróblewska
Kacper Rola |  Poland | 335.5

#### Group 2[edit]

Place | Athletes | Country | Points

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1 | Cedric Goulard
Thomas Caillard |  France | 410.5
2 | Edwim Gómez
Gerardo Restrepo |  Colombia | 402.0
3 | Erik Faes
Niels Neumann |  Netherlands | 399.5
4 | Carlos Alberto Pereira
Taluan Nogueira |  Brazil | 391.5
5 | Bartosz Machna
Dawid Kajdy |  Poland | 390.0
6 | Unai Saralegui Vallejo
Unai Reguillaga Eizaguirre |  Spain | 388.0
7 | Martin Hinteregger
Philipp Hinteregger |  Austria | 378.5
8 | Luís Nogueira
Lucas Maia |  Portugal | 358.0
9 | Ho Shing Heen
Hung Long Tsun |  Hong Kong | 328.0
10 | Osama Niyaz
Mounis Hawsawi |  Saudi Arabia | 321.0
11 | Erin Reim
Marika Boileau |  Canada | 303.5

#### Final[edit]

Place | Athletes | Country | Points

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| Erik Faes
Niels Neumann |  Netherlands | 415.0
| Glatenferd Escobar
Miguel Bermúdez |  Colombia | 414.0
| Antonio Marín Gómez Nieves
Eduardo Ayala Torrado |  Spain | 411.0
4 | Edwim Gómez
Gerardo Restrepo |  Colombia | 408.0
5 | Yagoub Al-Shmrani
Ali Meneiawi |  Saudi Arabia | 403.5
6 | Cedric Goulard
Thomas Caillard |  France | 398.5

### Katame-no-kata[edit]

#### Group 1[edit]

Place | Athletes | Country | Points

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1 | Ryuji Kabata
Toshiji Odate |  Japan | 423.5
2 | Tycho van der Werff
David Lefevere |  Netherlands | 412.5
3 | Shane Rooney
Hu Xiao Kang |  Canada | 397.5
4 | Nicolas Fourmaux
Jean Daniel Nguyen Van Loc |  France | 395.0
5 | Dmitry Yung
Sergey Shchetinskiy |  RJF | 381.5
6 | Vanessa Wenzl
Matthias Heinrich |  Austria | 380.5
7 | Massimo Cester
Davide Mauri |  Italy | 380.0
8 | Félix Jiménez Rodríguez
Rafael María Prado Ballestero |  Spain | 359.0
9 | Luís Canaveira
Thiago Marçal Silva |  Portugal | 353.5
10 | Beata Sypniewska
Sebastian Gembalczyk |  Poland | 353.0

#### Group 2[edit]

Place | Athletes | Country | Points

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1 | Nicolas Gilon
Jean-Philippe Gilon |  Belgium | 417.5
2 | Andrea Fregnan
Pietro Corcioni |  Italy | 409.5
3 | Juan Pedro Goicoechandia Huete
Roberto Villar Aguilera |  Spain | 399.0
4 | Eloy Carlos Rodriguez Matysek
Emmanuel Augeraud |  France | 398.5
5 | Miriam Sikora
Christian Steinert |  Germany | 397.5
6 | Kelly Palmer
Wesley Enns |  Canada | 385.0
7 | Douglas Newcomer
Ray Cox |  United States | 375.0
8 | Dominika Kincelová
Milan Ruják |  Slovakia | 365.5
9 | Dmytro Kalchenko
Hennadii Riabchynskyi |  Ukraine | 312.0

#### Final[edit]

Place | Athletes | Country | Points

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| Ryuji Kabata
Toshiji Odate |  Japan | 428.0
| Andrea Fregnan
Pietro Corcioni |  Italy | 420.0
| Nicolas Gilon
Jean-Philippe Gilon |  Belgium | 415.5
4 | Tycho van der Werff
David Lefevere |  Netherlands | 411.0
5 | Juan Pedro Goicoechandia Huete
Roberto Villar Aguilera |  Spain | 407.0
6 | Shane Rooney
Hu Xiao Kang |  Canada | 402.5

### Ju-no-kata[edit]

#### Group 1[edit]

Place | Athletes | Country | Points

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1 | Wolfgang Dax-Romswinkel
Ursula Loosen |  Germany | 395.5
2 | Alessandro Nuzzi Herrero
Andrea Nuzzi Herrero |  Spain | 377.5
3 | Giovanni Tarabelli
Angelica Tarabelli |  Italy | 377.0
4 | Zoran Grba
Sandra Uršičić |  Croatia | 367.0
5 | Ludovic Michelet
Alice Ballaud |  France | 362.0
6 | Hanna Peinsipp
Paula Peinsipp |  Austria | 350.0
7 | Dumitrita Rus
Mihaela Țipa |  Romania | 347.5
8 | Marie-José Nieuwenhuizen
Irene Suurland |  Netherlands | 337.5
9 | Meggie Aiko Lachaîne
Danielle Ferland |  Canada | 331.0
10 | Frederick Dagdagan
Lee Pasteris |  United States | 324.0

#### Group 2[edit]

Place | Athletes | Country | Points

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1 | Momoko Ishida
Mariko Ishida |  Japan | 422.5
2 | Alina Zaharia
Alina Cheru |  Romania | 386.0
3 | Mathieu Coulon
Carole Heras |  France | 381.0
4 | Laura Bugo
Barbara Bruni Cerchier |  Italy | 370.0
5 | Mariano Arroyo Martín
Juan Manuel García Pozo |  Spain | 368.5
6 | Ulrich Bröckel
Elke Bröckel |  Germany | 359.5
7 | Fabrice Beney
Laurence Jeanneret Berruex |  Switzerland | 357.0
8 | Yik Lam Nikki Yu
Wing Yan Grace Chan |  Hong Kong | 346.5
9 | Victoria Cleevely
Lisa Cleevely |  Great Britain | 334.5

#### Final[edit]

Place | Athletes | Country | Points

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| Momoko Ishida
Mariko Ishida |  Japan | 427.5
| Wolfgang Dax-Romswinkel
Ursula Loosen |  Germany | 411.5
| Alina Zaharia
Alina Cheru |  Romania | 398.0
4 | Mathieu Coulon
Carole Heras |  France | 385.5
5 | Giovanni Tarabelli
Angelica Tarabelli |  Italy | 381.0
6 | Alessandro Nuzzi Herrero
Andrea Nuzzi Herrero |  Spain | 369.5

### Kime-no-kata[edit]

#### Group 1[edit]

Place | Athletes | Country | Points

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1 | Michel Jeuffroy
Laurent Jeuffroy |  France | 522.0
2 | Grégory Marques
Stéphane Bega |  France | 517.0
3 | Miguel Ángel Vicens Siquier
Antonio Vicens Siquier |  Spain | 501.0
4 | Yuri Ferretti
Andrea Giani Contini |  Italy | 498.5
5 | Mischa Fransen
Yoeri Fransen |  Netherlands | 498.5
6 | Mario Pageau
Martin Vallières |  Canada | 441.0
7 | Zbigniew Wojtowicz
Jacek Kutyba |  Poland | 435.0

#### Group 2[edit]

Place | Athletes | Country | Points

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1 | Lisa Capriotti
Robert Gouthro |  United States | 516.5
2 | Grégory Rieffel
Philippe Leger |  France | 514.5
3 | Enrico Tommasi
Alberto Gainelli |  Italy | 509.5
4 | Rubén Gil Pérez
Víctor Lechón Lidón |  Spain | 497.5
5 | Sérgio Carvalho
Nuno Rosa |  Portugal | 482.5
6 | Robert Hatzl
Franz Winter |  Austria | 476.5
7 | Sönke Schillig
Johannes Eidinger |  Germany | 474.5

#### Final[edit]

Place | Athletes | Country | Points

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| Michel Jeuffroy
Laurent Jeuffroy |  France | 521.5
| Grégory Marques
Stéphane Bega |  France | 513.0
| Miguel Ángel Vicens Siquier
Antonio Vicens Siquier |  Spain | 509.0
4 | Enrico Tommasi
Alberto Gainelli |  Italy | 503.5
5 | Grégory Rieffel
Philippe Leger |  France | 500.5
6 | Lisa Capriotti
Robert Gouthro |  United States | 465.5

### Kodokan-goshin-jutsu[edit]

#### Group 1[edit]

Place | Athletes | Country | Points

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1 | Koo Ikeda
Fumitaka Sakamaki |  Japan | 580.5
2 | Pedro Gonçalves
Paulo Moreira |  Portugal | 553.5
3 | Juana María Puigserver Sanso
Llorenç Gayà Puigserver |  Spain | 533.5
4 | Thomas Hofmann
Daniel Koliander |  Germany | 528.0
5 | Ilaria Placidi
Nicola Placidi |  Italy | 528.0
6 | Didier Terwinghe
Nicolas Colson |  Belgium | 514.0
7 | Ricky Cleevely
Richard Bannister |  Great Britain | 504.0
8 | Lit Lok Yi
Ng Bo Fai |  Hong Kong | 502.5
9 | Benjamin Mehić
Darko Krašovec |  Slovenia | 485.5

#### Group 2[edit]

Place | Athletes | Country | Points

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1 | Claude Jaume
Brice Bénard |  France | 559.5
2 | Antoni Obrador Mas
Pedro Marcos Rodríguez |  Spain | 540.5
3 | Leszek Piąstka
Anna Jagiełło |  Poland | 531.5
4 | Yves Engelen
Dimitri Closset |  Belgium | 523.5
5 | José Costa
Verissimo Segurado |  Portugal | 523.5
6 | Allyn Takahashi
Tony Walby |  Canada | 506.0
7 | Xu Yiqi
Leung Cho Fung |  Hong Kong | 490.5
8 | Sergio Loi
Giuseppe Guzzo |  Italy | 249.3

#### Final[edit]

Place | Athletes | Country | Points

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| Koo Ikeda
Fumitaka Sakamaki |  Japan | 568.0
| Claude Jaume
Brice Bénard |  France | 551.5
| Pedro Gonçalves
Paulo Moreira |  Portugal | 551.5
4 | Leszek Piąstka
Anna Jagiełło |  Poland | 535.5
5 | Antoni Obrador Mas
Pedro Marcos Rodríguez |  Spain | 535.5
6 | Juana María Puigserver Sanso
Llorenç Gayà Puigserver |  Spain | 528.5

### Nage-no-kata (Junior)[edit]

#### Preliminary[edit]

Place | Athletes | Country | Points

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1 | Nikolai Zhikharev
Iaroslav Zhikharev |  RJF | 382.5
2 | Victoria Kraska
Dylan Meddour |  France | 371.0
3 | Aleksandra Masternak
Patryk Urban |  Poland | 363.5
4 | Ivan Fedorov
Egor Gaiazov |  RJF | 361.5
5 | Álvaro Gayarre Mompel
Alberto Gayarre Mompel |  Spain | 340.0
6 | José Farias
João Baptista |  Portugal | 335.5
7 | Diana Borysenko
Vitalii Khrapach |  Ukraine | 331.0

#### Final[edit]

Place | Athletes | Country | Points

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| Victoria Kraska
Dylan Meddour |  France | 393.5
| Nikolai Zhikharev
Iaroslav Zhikharev |  RJF | 392.0
| Aleksandra Masternak
Patryk Urban |  Poland | 382.5
4 | Ivan Fedorov
Egor Gaiazov |  RJF | 382.0
5 | Álvaro Gayarre Mompel
Alberto Gayarre Mompel |  Spain | 377.0
6 | José Farias
João Baptista |  Portugal | 373.0

### Katame-no-kata (Junior)[edit]

#### Preliminary[edit]

Place | Athletes | Country | Points

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1 | Dylan Meddour
Victoria Kraska |  France | 369.0
2 | Vladislav Burmentev
Daniil Sidorov |  RJF | 353.5
3 | João Baptista
José Farias |  Portugal | 346.0
4 | Diana Borysenko
Vitalii Khrapach |  Ukraine | 316.0

#### Final[edit]

Place | Athletes | Country | Points

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| Dylan Meddour
Victoria Kraska |  France | 401.0
| João Baptista
José Farias |  Portugal | 374.5
| Vladislav Burmentev
Daniil Sidorov |  RJF | 363.0
4 | Diana Borysenko
Vitalii Khrapach |  Ukraine | 329.5

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Veteran and Kata World Judo Championships Will Take Place in Lisbon in 2021". International Judo Federation. 3 June 2021.
2. ^ "Bom Dia Lisbon!". International Judo Federation. 19 October 2021.
3. ^ "Kata: The Forms". International Judo Federation. 26 October 2021.
4. ^ "The Kata Catalysis". International Judo Federation. 27 October 2021.