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A Bemis Junior High School student is a karate world champion. Last month, Dania Crnkic, an eighth-grader at the Utica Community Schools junior high won first place in continuous sparring, commonly ...

A karateka from Iran was knocked out but still won a gold medal due to his opponent’s disqualification Despite getting knocked out and being left unable to continue the Olympic gold-medal matchup, a ...

For La Jolla High School junior Koji Lavinsky, winning karate championships is a matter of heart and hard work. In late September, Koji, 16, took home two gold medals and a bronze medal at the World ...

The women's solo "kata" competition kicked off karate's first foray into the Olympics on Thursday with the 10 karateka performing routines in a hushed, spectator-less Nippon Budokan arena, the ...

TOKYO – For karateka Ariel Torres, the first American to win an Olympic medal in karate, the road to Tokyo started with a phone call, worn underwear and a Sharpie. Five years before he took bronze in ...

TOKYO — The ancient martial art of Karate made its debut at the Summer Olympics in Japan this week. The sport was added as a nod to the country where it developed 700 years ago. There are two types of ...

TOKYO (AP) — The final bout of karate’s Olympic debut seemed to have everything that makes combat sports so fascinating, right down to an incredible ending that should have made fans hungry for more ...

The WKF said the 2020 and 2021 seasons will be merged into one, with grand winners to be announced late next year based on their results over the two campaigns. Prize money will also be accumulated.

TOKYO — If any athletes at the Olympics should be able to fight for their lives, it should be the karateka, the men and women competing in the karate tournament at the Tokyo Olympics. Karate is having ...