Karate at the 2006 Asian Games

Karate competed by men and women at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. Kata contested along with Kumite in seven weight classes for men and four for women. All competition took place at the Qatar Sports Club Indoor Hall on December 12 and 13. Each country was limited to having 5 male and 3 female athletes.

Karate at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Qatar SC Indoor Hall
Dates	12–13 December 2006
Competitors	196 from 34 nations

Schedule

P

Preliminary rounds & Repechage

F

Finals

Event↓/Date →	12th Tue		13th Wed
Men's kata	P	F
Men's kumite 55 kg	P	F
Men's kumite 60 kg	P	F
Men's kumite 65 kg			P	F
Men's kumite 70 kg			P	F
Men's kumite 75 kg			P	F
Men's kumite 80 kg			P	F
Men's kumite +80 kg			P	F
Women's kata	P	F
Women's kumite 48 kg	P	F
Women's kumite 53 kg	P	F
Women's kumite 60 kg			P	F
Women's kumite +60 kg			P	F

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kata	Tetsuya Furukawa  Japan	Ku Jin Keat  Malaysia	Noel Espinosa  Philippines
			Shen Chia-hao  Chinese Taipei
Kumite −55 kg	Hsieh Cheng-kang  Chinese Taipei	Puvaneswaran Ramasamy  Malaysia	Thamer Al-Malki  Saudi Arabia
			Phạm Trần Nguyên  Vietnam
Kumite −60 kg	Hossein Rouhani  Iran	Kunasilan Lakanathan  Malaysia	Huang Hsiang-chen  Chinese Taipei
			Abdullah Dalloul  Qatar
Kumite −65 kg	Hassan Rouhani  Iran	Shion Kayahara  Japan	Lim Yoke Wai  Malaysia
			Magid Adwan  Qatar
Kumite −70 kg	Abdullah Al-Otaibi  Kuwait	Naowras Al-Hamwi  Syria	Saeid Farrokhi  Iran
			Takuro Nihei  Japan
Kumite −75 kg	Jasem Vishkaei  Iran	Ko Matsuhisa  Japan	Shattyk Kazhymukanov  Kazakhstan
			Talat Khalil  Jordan
Kumite −80 kg	Ahmad Muneer  Kuwait	Ryosuke Shimizu  Japan	Mutasembellah Khair  Jordan
			Esmaeil Torkzad  Iran
Kumite +80 kg	Khalid Khalidov  Kazakhstan	Jaber Al-Hammad  Kuwait	Amer Abu Afifeh  Jordan
			Umar Syarief  Indonesia

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kata	Nao Morooka  Japan	Nguyễn Hoàng Ngân  Vietnam	Cheung Pui Si  Macau
			Lim Lee Lee  Malaysia
Kumite −48 kg	Vũ Thị Nguyệt Ánh  Vietnam	Vasantha Marial Anthony  Malaysia	Jittikan Tiemsurakan  Thailand
			Chen Yen-hui  Chinese Taipei
Kumite −53 kg	Tomoko Araga  Japan	Marna Pabillore  Philippines	Venera Zhetibay  Kazakhstan
			Jenny Zeannet  Indonesia
Kumite −60 kg	Yuka Sato  Japan	Nguyễn Thị Hải Yến  Vietnam	Chan Ka Man  Hong Kong
			Yamini Gopalasamy  Malaysia
Kumite +60 kg	Sofiya Kaspulatova  Uzbekistan	Maitha Al-Maktoum  United Arab Emirates	Mardiah Nasution  Indonesia
			Paula Carion  Macau

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	3	1	8
2	Iran (IRI)	3	0	2	5
3	Kuwait (KUW)	2	1	0	3
4	Vietnam (VIE)	1	2	1	4
5	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	1	0	3	4
6	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	2	3
7	Uzbekistan (UZB)	1	0	0	1
8	Malaysia (MAS)	0	4	3	7
9	Philippines (PHI)	0	1	1	2
10	Syria (SYR)	0	1	0	1
	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0	1	0	1
12	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	3	3
	Jordan (JOR)	0	0	3	3
14	Macau (MAC)	0	0	2	2
	Qatar (QAT)	0	0	2	2
16	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	0	1	1
	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	0	1	1
	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		13	13	26	52

Participating nations

A total of 196 athletes from 34 nations competed in karate at the 2006 Asian Games:

•  Afghanistan (6)
•  Bahrain (4)
•  Brunei (4)
•  Chinese Taipei (8)
•  East Timor (4)
•  Hong Kong (3)
•  Indonesia (8)
•  Iran (5)
•  Japan (8)
•  Jordan (7)
•  Kazakhstan (8)
•  Kuwait (6)
•  Laos (1)
•  Lebanon (8)
•  Macau (7)
•  Malaysia (8)
•  Mongolia (6)
•  Nepal (8)
•  North Korea (5)
•  Pakistan (5)
•  Palestine (4)
•  Philippines (8)
•  Qatar (5)
•  Saudi Arabia (4)
•  Singapore (1)
•  South Korea (7)
•  Sri Lanka (7)
•  Syria (8)
•  Tajikistan (4)
•  Thailand (3)
•  United Arab Emirates (8)
•  Uzbekistan (5)
•  Vietnam (8)
•  Yemen (5)

External links

• Official website