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 ...

Karate's debut as ... not one of them host Japan. In fact, no nation had more than one gold winner and that's including the two golds awarded in kata. Azerbaijan boasts two silver winners in Rafael ...

Japan's Ryo Kiyuna took men's kata karate ... of the kata is scored based on speed, rhythm, balance and other factors. Kiyuna said he hoped his win at the Olympics - where karate may not reappear ...

The women's solo "kata" competition kicked off karate's first foray into the Olympics on Thursday, with veteran Sandra Sanchez of Spain taking ... champion in the men's -67kg category, France's ...