On 1 November, IOC President Kirsty Coventry joined karate's Focus Day at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games. A team kata and kumite demonstration by Senegal's national team, talks with young medallists and children from SOS Children's Villages Senegal marked her visit.
20 – 22 November 2026 · Hangzhou
Karate World Cup - National Team Championships - Hangzhou 2026
14 October 2026
WKF World Cadet, Junior & U21 Championships, Bielsko-Biała 2026
Cadet Female Kata
The 6th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Riyadh move to 28 March–8 April 2027. Karate keeps 13 events: kata and kumite for men and women.
From 5 to 8 November, Glasgow hosts the 12th Commonwealth Karate Championships: two elite days for national teams under WKF rules, then two club days open from children to veterans.
Japan defends three titles at the 2026 Karate World Cup in Hangzhou (20-22 Nov), drawn in Group D each time, with Egypt and France in female team kata.
The WKF has revealed the groups of the Karate World Cup 2026 in Hangzhou: four team categories, four groups of five, and only the top two of each group going through to the quarter-finals.
Silver in Budapest in 2023, then a first world title against Iran in Pamplona in 2024: Egypt arrives at the Karate World Cup in Hangzhou as the holder in male team kumite.
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.
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.
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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