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.

It was inaugurated in Tokyo ... Women and Kata divisions were introduced at the 1980 World Championships but, by 1992, the increase in the sport’s popularity saw the governing body morph into the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Karate has also, for the first time, been accepted as an official Olympic sport, and both kumite and kata will feature at the Tokyo Olympics next summer. In kumite, the opposing athletes compete for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...