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Championships, opens, and the rest of the competition circuit.
One year to the day before the final phase of the 2027 World Individual Senior Championships, a WKF delegation has inspected the Chorus Life Arena in Bergamo, where the titles will be decided from 11 to 14 November.
In Glasgow, on the eve of the 12th Commonwealth Karate Championships, Canada's Craig Vokey was elected president of the CKF for four years. Antonio Espinós said he hoped to see karate in the Commonwealth Games.
England topped the Elite medal table of the 12th Commonwealth Karate Championships with 33 titles, Scotland won 18, and two nations with very different Glasgow stories, Australia and Cyprus, are among those offering to host the next edition.
On the opening Elite day in Glasgow, England took eight of ten individual kata titles while host Scotland claimed both senior team kumite golds and senior women’s team kata.
The individual kumite day of the Glasgow Elite Championships produced 48 champions: 22 for England, four senior titles among Scotland’s 13 golds, and five Cypriot victories in the youngest age groups.
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.
WKF President Espinós tells National Federations the 2026 World Cadet, Junior & U21 Championships in Bielsko-Biała will stream in full on YouTube.
Japan topped the last Series A of 2026 in Salzburg with four titles, as ten new champions from eight countries were crowned over the final weekend.
At WKF headquarters in Madrid, Antonio Espinós welcomed Ukraine's federation president Ivan Dutchak to discuss karate in Europe and upcoming events.
From 14 to 18 October, Bielsko-Biała hosts the 14th WKF World Cadet, Junior & U21 Championships, with nearly 2,000 provisional entries.
Ria Hori and Yosuke Abe win gold for Japan, Kuwait takes male kata and Croatia's Lucija Lesjak the +68 kg title on day one in Salzburg.
Thirty-four nations, fifteen titles, 22 countries on the podium: karate at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games showed the sport's unity and reach.
