The schedule for the Tokyo Games features 33 sports, and four of those disciplines have never been contested at the Olympic level before ... Sakura Kokumai explains how the kata competition will ...

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 ...

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From SI: "The Olympic competition will feature 60 athletes in six kumite and two kata demonstration categories. Kata is more of a demonstration sport that shows off karate's technique. Kumite is ...

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.

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Karate - Men's Individual Kata - Gold medal match - Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan - August 6, 2021. Ryo Kiyuna of Japan competes. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse The World Karate ...