For the first time ever, karate will be a part of the Summer Olympic Games ... and three women’s Kumite weight divisions (55 kg, 61 kg and +61 kg). What is kata and what happens in these ...

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 full schedule for streaming coverage of Olympic karate can be found here. Date Events How to Stream 8/4, 9 p.m. ET Women's Kata & Men's 67kg Kumite: Elimination Round NBCOlympics.com 8/5, 4 a.m.

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's Ryo Kiyuna took men's kata karate gold ... his compatriot conceded karate's maiden Olympic gold to her Spanish rival. While the women's "kata" event https://www.reuters ...

Kiyou Shimizu of Team Japan competes during the Women’s Karate Kata Karate is one of four new sports to debut at the Tokyo Olympics this year, alongside skateboarding, surfing and sport climbing.

TOKYO, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Spain's Sandra Sanchez, known as the "queen of kata", won ... the third Olympic medal for his country and the first outside taekwondo. In the women's -55kg category ...

The 28-year-old is Team USA’s sole competitor in the Female Kata Division for the 2021 Tokyo Games, the first time the Olympics will feature karate. “It's artistic, in a way,” she says of ...

The tournament is an acknowledgment of the martial art’s roots in Japan and a nod to its global stature. By Ken Belson Karate made its debut as an official Olympic sport at the Tokyo Games on ...

After nearly a half-century of attempts to add karate to the Olympics, the Japanese martial ... is among the favorites in women’s kata. Japan’s Kiyou Shimizu is her top rival.

Since karate was a new sport for the Olympics, a new system had to be put in place. She learned that for kata, there would be spots for only 10 women and 10 men in the world. For kumite ...

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 ...

TOKYO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Japan's Ryo Kiyuna took men's kata karate gold ... his compatriot conceded karate's maiden Olympic gold to her Spanish rival. While the women's "kata" event, opens new ...