The or ITKF is the international governing body for Traditional Karate. This organisation was founded by Hidetaka Nishiyama. In the early 1990s, Nishiyama's refusal to align his ITKF organization with the World Union of Karate-Do Organizations (WUKO) caused the International Olympic Committee to suspend its recognition of WUKO as amateur karate's international governing body."Karate in the Olympics? More than a pipe dream". Coleman, J. (1993): "Watch out, WUKO—Here comes Shotokan Karate's Nishiyama! Noted Instructor claims he is ready to lead Olympic Karate movement if IOC ousts WUKO." Black Belt, 31(4):18–22. According to the IOC decision 101 from 1993 the ITKF and WUKO had been due to merge and form a unified karate organization under the IOC suggested name of WKF. The IOC further indicated its intention to recognize the merged WKF should ITKF and WUKO successfully fulfill the IOC 101 decision guidelines, but this did not eventuate.World Union of Karate-Do Federations: About us (c. 2009). Retrieved on April 17, 2010. The WUKO eventually became the World Union of Karate-Do Federations in late 2008.
ITKF Officials Chairman: Prof. Gilberto Gaertner President: Rômulo Valdemar Ribeiro Machado Vice President: Sandrine El Marhomy https://itkf.global/about-us/ Board of Directors: Antonio Walger, Roman Pavlovic, Fernando Silva, Ramy El Mekawy, Ibrahim Al Bakr. General Secretary: Luiz Alberto Küster Treasurer: Rui Francisco Martins Marçal Director General: Sadiomar Santos Technical Committee: Sensei Tasuke Watanabe (in memoriam), Sensei Gilberto Gaertner, Sensei Eligio Contareli, Sensei Justo Gomez Communications & Marketing Committee: Eyal Nir, Roman Pavlovic, Ibrahim Al-Bakr, Leonardo Neves Berg do Prado, Innovation and Technology Committee: Vinícius Sant’Anna Pinto, Joarez Evangelista Franco Junior, Rafael Gustavo Gaertner, Sheriff Abuel Enein
Member Organizations The ITKF is composed of Member Organizations established voluntarily and democratically in their own countries as governing body of Traditional Karate. PAN AMERICA CountryFederationCityChief ExecutiveMEXICOITKF MEXICONaucalpan de JuarezAlfredo Igor Arguello HermidaUSAUNITED STATES OF AMERICA TRADITIONAL KARATE FEDERATIONWylieBrad Webb AFRICA CountryFederationCityChief ExecutiveALGERIAALGERIA TRADITIONAL KARATE ASSOCIATIONAlgeriaKadir BouguettayaCONGOCONGO RDCMoussa Djuma MoiseEGYPTEGYPTIAN TRADITIONAL KARATE FEDERATIONCairoRamy El MekawyGAMBIAGTKA - GAMBIA TRADITIONAL KARATE ASSOCIATIONMuhamed SarrNIGERIANTKFHassan AbdullahiSUDANSUDANESE TRADITIONAL KARATE FEDERATIONJamal GudaTANZANIATTKFMuhammad Amin SuleimanTUNISIAATKTTunisLotfi OuertaniCOMOROSCTKC - COMOROS TRADITIONAL KARATE ASSOCIATIONSaid Youssouf Said MohamedANGOLANÚCLEO ANGOLANO DE KARATE TRADICIONALLubangoNzevuna Fidel André ASIA CountryFederationCityChief ExecutiveINDIANATIONAL KARATE FEDERATIONNew DelhiJitesh KumarINDONESIAINATKFJakartaMuhammad Muchlas RowiKUWAITKUTKC - KUWAIT UNION AND TRADITIONAL KARATE COMMITTEEKuwaitAhmed Hassan AlkhlefePAKISTANPAKISTAN TRADITIONAL KARATE FEDERATIONQuettaJalal-Ud-DinPALESTINEPTKFJerusalemIbahem AbukafUZBEKISTANUZBEKISTAN ITKF KARATE-DO FEDERATIONTashkentShukhatjon KushmuradovSRI LANKASRI LANKA TRADITIONAL KARATE DO FEDERATION - NEKO DO GOJUHenegama Gampaha Jeewantha Kariyawasam REPUBLIC OF ARMENIACENTRE NATIONAL TRADITIONAL KARATE-DO FEDERATION OFYerevanSuren MatevosyanKAZAKHSTANWESTERN KAZAKHSTAN ASSOCIATION OF KARATE-DO BUDOUralskKuangaliyev TarasBANGLADESHBANGLADESH TRADITIONAL KARATE FEDERATIONDhakaH. M. Nuruddin Chowdhury RanaJORDANJKA JORDANAmmanEmad KhalilAZERBAIJANAZERBAIJAN TRADITIONAL KARATE FEDERATIONBakuAyaz IbishovNEPALNEPAL WADO RYU KARATE DOKathmanduHari Sharan K.C
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