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Guadalajara 2028: Mexico Takes the WKF Flag for the Next Youth World Championships
Mexico will host the XV WKF World Cadet, Junior & U21 Championships in Guadalajara in 2028. The WKF flag was handed over in Bielsko-Biała.
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Dakar 2026: karate comes to the Youth Olympic Games as a guest, with Douglas Brose as guide
Karate will award no medals at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games, the first Olympic event on African soil. It will be there all the same, on the Corniche, among schoolchildren and passers-by, with Douglas Brose as the IOC's Athlete Role Model.
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Mariam Bsharat: two world titles in a row, and the climb goes on
In Bielsko-Biała, Palestine's Mariam Bsharat won junior −66 kg kumite gold, adding to her 2024 cadet crown: two world titles at two consecutive editions.
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Stanislav Horuna: the karategi gives way to a suit, and the Olympic dream stays
Two weeks after a last gold in Salzburg, the Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist confirmed in Bielsko-Biała that he has retired and wants to work with the WKF.
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Bielsko-Biała 2026: U21 world champions crowned as Japan tops the medal table
Okumura and García Lozano in kata, a second straight title for Omar Osman, a first international gold for Alexandr Capmoale: the final day in Bielsko-Biała crowned the U21 world champions before Japan and Italy closed the week in team kata.
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Brisbane 2032: in Bielsko-Biała, the WKF sharpens its Olympic case
Meeting in Bielsko-Biała during the World Cadet, Junior and U21 Championships, the WKF's Brisbane 2032 Supervisory Board, chaired by Antonio Espinós, reviewed the action plan behind karate's Olympic hopes and the IOC criteria that will frame the decision.
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Bielsko-Biała 2026: Natalia Balut's home gold and a Kvesić family story on day four
Twenty-three world titles on Saturday in Bielsko-Biała: a first Polish gold for Natalia Balut, a 15-year-old Kvesić following his brothers, and Ito and Hamazawa repeating their cadet success as juniors.
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WKF Executive Committee: Benetello, Cipek and Au lead a new era from 2027
Meeting in Bielsko-Biała during the youth World Championships, the new WKF Executive Committee named Davide Benetello First Vice President, Davor Cipek General Secretary and Elisa Au Assistant General Secretary, and thanked Toshihisa Nagura for twelve years at the head of the secretariat.
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Bielsko-Biała 2026: Natalia Balut and the world finals taking shape
A home finalist from Sopot, a Palestinian 8-7 and a Moldovan 15-14: the U21 and junior finals of the WKF youth Worlds are set before the weekend's medal bouts.
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