Karate at the 2011 Pan American Games

The Karate competition of the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico were held at the San Rafael Gymnasium between October 27 and October 29. All the competitions was held in the kumite discipline.

Karate at the 2011 Pan American Games
Venue	San Rafael Gymnasium
Dates	October 27 – October 29
Competitors	80 from 20 nations
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Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Mexico)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Dominican Republic	2	3	0	5
2	Venezuela	2	0	3	5
3	Mexico*	1	3	2	6
4	United States	1	1	0	2
5	Brazil	1	0	4	5
6	Guatemala	1	0	1	2
7	Colombia	1	0	0	1
	Ecuador	1	0	0	1
9	Chile	0	1	4	5
10	Cuba	0	1	2	3
11	Peru	0	1	0	1
12	Canada	0	0	3	3
13	Netherlands Antilles	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		10	10	20	40

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
60 kg	Andrés Rendón  Colombia	Norberto Sosa  Dominican Republic	Douglas Brose  Brazil
			Miguel Soffia  Chile
67 kg	Daniel Viveros  Ecuador	Dennis Novo  Cuba	Daniel Carrillo  Mexico
			Jean Carlos Peña  Venezuela
75 kg	Dionicio Gustavo  Dominican Republic	Thomas Scott  United States	Lester Zamora  Cuba
			David Dubó  Chile
84 kg	Cesar Herrera  Venezuela	Jorge Pérez  Dominican Republic	Homero Morales  Mexico
			Sorin Alexadnru  Canada
+84 kg	Angel Aponte  Venezuela	Alberto Ramirez  Mexico	Wellington Barbosa  Brazil
			Shaun Dhillon  Canada

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 kg	Ana Villanueva  Dominican Republic	Gabriela Bruna  Chile	Jéssica Cândido  Brazil
			Cheili Gonzalez  Guatemala
55 kg	Shannon Nishi  United States	Karina Diaz  Dominican Republic	Valéria Kumizaki  Brazil
			Jessy Reyes  Chile
61 kg	Bertha Gutierrez  Mexico	Alexandra Grande  Peru	Daniela Suarez  Venezuela
			Marisca Verspaget  Netherlands Antilles
68 kg	Lucélia Ribeiro  Brazil	Yadira Lira  Mexico	Yoly Guillen  Venezuela
			Yoandra Moreno  Cuba
+68 kg	Maria Castellanos  Guatemala	Xhunashi Caballero  Mexico	Olivia Grant  Canada
			Claudia Vera  Chile

Schedule

All times are Central Daylight Time (UTC-5).

Day	Date	Start	Finish	Event	Phase
Day 14	Thursday October 27, 2011	10:00	14:30	Men's +84 kg, Women's +68 kg	Preliminaries
		16:00	17:20	Men's +84 kg, Women's +68 kg	Semifinals
		17:25	17:55	Men's +84 kg, Women's +68 kg	Finals
Day 15	Friday October 28, 2011	10:00	14:30	Men's 60 kg, 84 kg, Women's 50 kg, 68 kg	Preliminaries
		16:00	17:20	Men's 60 kg, 84 kg, Women's 50 kg, 68 kg	Semifinals
		17:25	18:30	Men's 60 kg, 84 kg, Women's 50 kg, 68 kg	Finals
Day 16	Saturday October 29, 2011	10:00	14:30	Men's 67 kg, 75 kg, Women's 55 kg, 61 kg	Preliminaries
		16:00	17:20	Men's 67 kg, 75 kg, Women's 55 kg, 61 kg	Semifinals
		17:25	18:30	Men's 67 kg, 75 kg, Women's 55 kg, 61 kg	Finals

Qualification

Main article: Karate at the 2011 Pan American Games – Qualification

Each nation is allowed enter a maximum of ten athletes (one per weight category). Mexico as host nation receives an entry in each weight category, while all other nations had to qualify through four qualifying tournaments. The following nations qualified:

NOC	Men					Women					Total
	60kg	67kg	75kg	84kg	84+kg	50kg	55kg	61kg	68kg	68+kg
Argentina					X			X		X	3
Brazil	X				X	X	X		X	X	6
Canada				X	X			X		X	4
Chile	X		X			X	X		X	X	6
Colombia	X			X		X					3
Costa Rica									X		1
Cuba		X	X				X		X		4
Dominican Republic	X	X	X	X		X	X	X	X		8
Ecuador		X	X				X				3
El Salvador	X	X	X	X	X						5
Guatemala						X	X			X	3
Mexico	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	10
Netherlands Antilles								X			1
Panama								X			1
Peru	X	X	X	X				X			5
Puerto Rico					X					X	2
Trinidad and Tobago					X						1
United States	X	X	X			X	X		X		6
Uruguay				X							1
Venezuela		X		X	X	X		X	X	X	7
Total: 20 NOCs	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	80