Karate is set to make its Olympic debut in Tokyo. The Olympic karate competition will begin ... Date Events How to Stream 8/4, 9 p.m. ET Women's Kata & Men's 67kg Kumite: Elimination Round NBCOlympics ...

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 in the Olympics will consist of kata (forms) and kumite (sparring). A Karate practitioner is called a karateka. The Tokyo 2020 Games will see 80 athletes competing in the two styles.

Onaga taught the group kata, or forms of movements ... Major travel agencies have started to offer karate tours to Okinawa since early this year. As the Tokyo 2020 Olympics approaches, there's ...

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

Tokyo Olympics: two bronze medals for ... named for – to clean up any blood during the competition. Karate, which is making its Olympic debut, is an art that holds its competitors to the highest ...

Hong Kong’s athletes have rocked the Tokyo Olympics this week, winning a bronze in table tennis and another bronze in karate ... in women’s individual kata. Soo’s father, Soo Chun-wah ...

As the win was announced in Tokyo's ... 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 ...

Sandra Sánchez had a particularly special moment in Tokyo, winning the first-ever Olympic gold medal in karate with a victory in the women’s kata event. Turkey pays its medalists in Republic ...

Scott was joined at the Tokyo Olympics by fellow Team USA karate athletes Ariel Torres ... Eagan who has coached several world medalist in Kata (forms). Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald ...

The 31-year-old's Aug. 6 achievement in karate’s “kata” event in Tokyo also ... Karate is debuting as an Olympic sport in Tokyo. From its roots in Okinawa when it was still known as the ...

Now, he's about to represent Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The Japanese unarmed martial art of karate is one of the most popular martial arts practised in the world. In Japanese ...