TOKYO - Spain's Sandra Sanchez, known as the "queen of kata", won karate's maiden gold medal on Thursday, defeating perennial rival and hometown favourite Kiyou Shimizu in the sport's historic debut ...

There, the Budokan, built for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics ... Karate team members at Hozen High School, in Tokyo, practice a kata, a series of karate moves and techniques. Jun Tsuboike Funakoshi’s ...

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Karate - Men's Individual Kata - Gold medal match - Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan - August 6, 2021. Ryo Kiyuna of Japan competes. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse The World Karate ...

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Karate - Men's Individual Kata - Gold medal ... 2020 Olympics - Karate - Women's -61kg Kumite - Final - Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan - August 6, 2021. Jovana Prekovic of ...

The International Olympic Committee announced Wednesday that six sports will be added to the docket at the 2020 Summer Olympics ... Kata is more of a demonstration sport that shows off karate's ...