The karate events of World Games I were held on July 25–27, 1981, at the Toso Pavilion on the campus of Santa Clara University in California, United States...

Karate was introduced as a World Games sport at the 1981 World Games in Santa Clara, California. Karate has been a World Games sport in every edition of...

Clara The 1981 World Games were the first World Games, an international multi-sport event, and were held in Santa Clara, California, United States. The games...

of The World Games was held in Santa Clara, USA, in 1981. It was opened by Kim Un-yong, president of the World Games executive committee, at Buck Shaw...

in the women's kata event at the European Games held in Baku, Azerbaijan. In the final, she defeated Sandy Scordo of France. At the 2016 World Karate Championships...

the COVID-19 pandemic. They were the second edition of the World Games to be hosted by the United States since their inaugural edition in 1981. The cities...

Karate (空手) (/kəˈrɑːti/; Japanese pronunciation: [kaɾate] ; Okinawan pronunciation: [kaɽati]), also karate-do (空手道, Karate-dō), is a martial art developed...

The powerlifting events of World Games I were held on July 25–26, 1981, at Marriott's Great America amusement park in its Grandstand Pavilion (today the...

at the World Games because all of its disciplines have always been Olympic sports. This event was discontinued when trampolining was included in the program...

Kumite at the World Games 1981 He would open up his own school in 1983. He has also been a kickboxing coach for Michael McDonald and later a karate coach...

The waterskiing events of World Games I were held on July 25–26, 1981, at Berkeley Aquatic Park in Berkeley, California. These were the first World Games...

Retrieved 2015-10-26. "World Games I Results". United Press International. 29 July 1981. "The 6th World Games 2001.8.16-26 Karate/Sparring/Open weight/Men...

as the League President of Karate Combat since 2020. Kovács won gold medal at the 2005 Maccabiah Games. "Karate Medalists" (PDF). 2009 World Games. Archived...

competitor in semi-contact and point karate during the 1980s, winning a bronze medal at the 1981 World Games, before creating the Tae Bo exercise program. Blanks...

The World Kickboxing Association (WKA) also known as World Kickboxing and Karate Association, is one of the oldest and the largest amateur and professional...

the Dutch national champion on nine occasions and also won medals at the Karate World Championships in 1979, 1980, 1982 and 1984 as well as the World...

the Dominican Republic. He was a child-care worker. Llanos competed at the 1981 World Games, winning a bronze medal in the men's kata event in karate...

He won individual gold medals at the 1977 European Championships and 1981 World Games, and a team gold at the 1977 World Championships, together with Otti...

Tournament Gold Medal 1981 4th World Games 70 kg Gold Medal 1981 9th Japan Karate-do Championship Gold Medal 1982 6th Karate World Championships 70 kg Gold Medal...

community. The song "World Game" by John Denver was adopted as the theme for the Games. Sports included field archery, taekwondo, karate, sambo, powerlifting...

who was part of the French kumite team that won gold at the 1994 World Karate Championships and at the 1980, 1981 and 1993 European Karate Championships...

the 1981 World Games. Press coverage did not refer to water polo as an invitational sport. An agreement was reached with FINA in the lead-up to the games...

The United States competed as host country at the 2022 World Games held in Birmingham, United States from 7 to 17 July 2022. Athletes representing the...

rhythmic gymnastics), Stanislav Horuna (karate), while others were medallists of the World Games and participated at the Summer Olympics (Olena Movchan, Maryna...

Powerlifting has been part of every World Games since the inaugural 1981 World Games held in Santa Clara, California. Results of World Championships at IPF...

with the Japan Olympic Association (JOC), World Karate Federation (WKF), Japan Sports Association (JSA), and Japanese Budō Association (JBA). The styles...

2005) – at the Islamic Solidarity Games Gymnastics (since 2017) Handball (since 2005) – at the Islamic Solidarity Games Judo (since 2017) Karate (since...

but gave up the sport to pursue Kyokushin karate which he began practicing at ten years old. Beginning his full contact karate career in the 80 kg/176 lb...

Although at the beginning karate was only contested in the fighting or kumite category, forms or kata was included in 1981. In 1985, women's karate was added...

Racquetball was part of the first World Games in 1981 at Santa Clara. These competitions also count as the first Racquetball World Championships. Racquetball...