World Karate Championship in Weight Categories is the second largest competition in Kyokushin Karate. This tournament is arranged by several kyokushin organisations and usually held every fourth year in between World Tournaments which do not have any weight classes.
Rules All world cup tournaments operates under knockdown karate rules which involves standup bareknuckle fighting with basically no protection. The more characteristical rules in knockdown karate compered to other styles is that you are not allowed to punch in the face and a point system that only count hits that actually "hurt" the opponent. This makes knockdown fighting very physical but at the same time quite safe considering that there are very few hits to the head. There can be slight variances in the rules between the different organizations responsible for a tournaments but the basics are the same. The rules has also been modified over the years.
Normally knockdown rules includes No protectors or guards are used, with exception to groin guards and teeth protection. 3 minutes match-time The fighter that achieves an Ippon (one point) will win the match and the fight is stopped. An Ippon is achieved when an attack that knocks down the opponent for more than 3 seconds or renders the opponent being reluctant to continue the fight. An ippon can also be granted if an illegal technique is used and the other fighter is disqualified. A fighter can also win the fight by Waza-ari (half point) which is awarded if the opponent is knocks down by less than 3 seconds and is able to continue the fight. If two Waza-aris is achieved during the fight it is counted as an Ippon and the fight is stopped. If no knockdowns occurs, the judges can declare one fighter as winner by overall efficiency of techniques, force and dynamics. In case of a draw there can be up to 3 extensions (each 2 minutes long). Some tournaments will also settled draws by weight different and result of Tamaeshiwari (breaking of tiles)
Illegal techniques are Punches to the face Kicks to the groin Grappling, grabbing of any form Headbutts Kick to knee Kick to rear of head Pushing Strike to spine from rear Elbow to face
Read more about various full contact karate rules
Before split of IKO Only world tournaments in open weight was organized by IKO (International Karate Organization Kyokushinkaikan) led by Sosai Masutatsu Oyama. After the death of Sosai, IKO was split in different fractions and several has since then started to organise world tournaments in weight categories from 1997 and onwards.
All Japan Weight Category Tournament IKO All Japan Weight Category Karate Championships is the annual Kyokushin Karate Japan Championship. It has been held in Osaka since 1984 and is held in four different weight classes. Exceptionally, the 2014 tournament was held in Tokyo.第31回全日本ウェイト制空手道選手権大会・結果 kyokushinkaikan.org 8.6.2014 cited 5.6.2017 Earlier in 1969, the Japanese Championships were established, in which the championship is played in the open weight class. Between 1984 and 1996, there were three weight classes: light, medium and heavy. After the first World Weight Championships in 1997, the weight classes were increased by one.IKO-1. Результаты весововых чемпионатов Японии по киокушин карате. 20.10.2014 Viitattu 17.4.2017
Super Heavyweight (+85 kg) YearGoldSilverBronze 1998 Kiyoyuki Shida Yasuhiko Kimura Gun Irisawa 1999 Kiyoyuki Shida Tadateru Sano Gun Irisawa 2000 Hirokazu Kondo Hideki Tokumoto Satoshi Higuchi 2001 Atsushi Kadoi Shinji Adachi Tsuneya Ichikawa 2002 Letši Kurbanov Hideki Tokumoto Hirokazu Kondo 2003 Hirokazu Kondo Norihito Satoh Shinji Adachi 2004 Jan Soukup Andrei Stepin Oleg Lukyanenko 2005 Mihail Kozlov Keiji Higuchi Yoshiaki Uchida 2006 Darmen Sadvokasov Makoto Akaishi Arthur Hovhannisyan 2007 Makoto Taniguchi Makoto Akaishi Yuji Kogure 2008 Makoto Akaishi Zahari Damyanov Kentaro Aso 2009 Tadakuni Tokuda Hideo Sawada Tadateru Sano 2010 Syoki Arata Makoto Taniguchi Hideo Sawada 2011 Makoto Taniguchi Seijyun Kinoshita Norio Matsumura 2012 Syoki Arata Sergei Uvitski Satoru Araki 2013 Oleksandr Ieromienko Kirill Kotšnev Masahiro Ohe 2014 Shōhei Kamada Mikio Ueda Steven Cujic 2015 Steven Cujic Satoru Araki Kenta Nanbara 2016 Shōhei Kamada Yuta Takahashi Tatsuma Yamagawa 2017 Goderzi Kapanadze Oleksandr Ieromenko Seiya Tanigawa 2018 Anton Gulyaev Kenta Nanbara Ryunosuke Hoshi 2019 Goderzi Kapanadze Anton Gulyaev Danil Goryushkin
Heavyweight (-85 kg) YearGoldSilverBronze 1984 Yasuhiro Shichinohe Yoshitaka Nishiyama Shinichi Sotodate 1985 Yasuhiro Shichinohe Yoshitaka Nishiyama Hirofumi Kanayama 1986 Yoshitaka Nishiyama Hirofumi Kanayama Katsutoshi Iguchi 1987 Yasuhiro Shichinohe Hiroki Kurosawa Masashi Kimoto 1988 Masashi Kimoto Takehisa Iriki Hirofumi Kanayama 1989 Yasuhiro Shichinohe Yoshihiro Tamura Iwao Takita 1990 Tatsuya Iwasaki Iwao Takita Yoshiharu Eguchi 1991 Yoshihiro Tamura Yasuhiro Shichinohe Yutaka Ishi 1992 Yoshihiro Tamura Takehiro Minami Kiyoshi Nemoto 1993 Kenji Yamaki Kunihiro Suzuki Hiroki Kurosawa 1994 Niiho Satoshi Kunihiro Suzuki Nicholas Pettas 1995 Tatsuya Iwasaki Yoshihiro Tamura Hiroki Kurosawa 1996 Masayoshi Takaku Kiiyoyuki Shida Yasuhiko Kimura 1997 Kyokushin World Championships held simultaneously 1998 Atsushi Kadoi Naoji Mikoshiba Keiichi Hayashi 1999 Shinji Adachi Osamu Sumitani Kentaro Tanaka 2000 Kentaro Tanaka Osamu Sumitani Tetsuya Kano 2001 Yoshinori Ikeda Masashi Nakagawa Fumihiro Sugiyama 2002 Naoji Mikoshiba Masashi Nakagawa Osamu Sumitani 2003 Masato Ikeda Yoshinori Ikeda Masataka Ino 2004 Kenshin Morimura Yuji Kogure Masataka Ino 2005 Hiroyuki Kidachi Yasushi Itatani Yoshitatsu Beppu 2006 Osamu Sumitani Toshihiro Kanamori Yoshitatsu Beppu 2007 Osamu Shiojima Kengo Shimizu Naoki Ichimura 2008 Yoshitatsu Beppu Nurmamed Mamedov Yoshikazu Muraoka 2009 Yoshitatsu Beppu Osamu Sumitani Kyohei Yasujima 2010 Tariel Nikoleishvili Zenjyuro Mori Yoshikazu Muraoka 2011 Kyohei Ajima Yoshikazu Muraoka Yoshitatsu Beppu 2012 Daiki Kobayashi Shōhei Kamada Tatsuya Murata 2013 Mikio Ueda Koinosuke Ishizaki Kyohei Ajima 2014 Yuta Takahashi Masanaga Nakamura Farukh Turgunboev 2015 Masanaga Nakamura Takuya Takeoka Yota Higuchi 2016 Koinosuke Ishizaki Takuya Takeoka Chihiro Nakajima 2017 Chihiro Nakajima Yutaro Ishizuka Kyohei Ajima 2018 Andrei Luzin Kyohei Ajima Kashin Osawa 2019 Kashin Osawa Andrei Tširkov Youta Takahashi
Middleweight (-75 kg) YearGoldSilverBronze 1984 Hideaki Kakinuma Mitsuaki Satoh Satoshi Yui 1985 Takehisa Iriki Hidehiko Hashizume Jyun Miwa 1986 Hidehiko Hashizume Hideki Okamoto Makoto Kusakai 1987 Yasuhiro Kuwajima Hidehiko Hashizume Masahiro Oga 1988 Hideki Shibata Masahiro Oga Takuya Akimoto 1989 Hiroyuki Miake Niiho Satoshi Masaaki Yoshii 1990 Kyouichi Taguchi Shinegori Sakamoto Toshiya Sasaki 1991 Naoyuki Sonoda Takhiroh Katoh Eiji Kawamoto 1992 Eiji Kawamoto Hidenori Aoki Shinichi Ogawa 1993 Hidenori Aoki Toshiaki Iizumi Masanori Ngatomo 1994 Hiroyuki Miake Yoshinori Ikeda Yoshikazu Koi 1995 Tetsuo Seto Masato Ikeda Garry O'Neill 1996 Ryū Narushima Atsuya Fukuda Hiroyuki Kidachi 1997 Kyokushin World Championships held the same year 1998 Yuji Arai Khosro Yaghoubi Tadashi Honma 1999 Hiroyuki Kidachi Shin Ito Masahiro Kaneko 2000 Hiroyuki Kidachi Khosro Yaghoubi Yoshinori Ikeda 2001 Yuji Shin Tatsuya Fukuda Tadashi Honma 2002 Shin Ito Hisashi Noka Toshihiro Kanamori 2003 Toshihiro Kanamori Hisashi Noka Joji Hibino 2004 Takamitsu Sakurai Makoto Ikemoto Adlan Abzotov 2005 Tomohiko Matsuoka Zenjyuro Mori Atsutomo Mori 2006 Zenjyuro Mori Tomohiko Matsuoka Dmitri Startsev 2007 Yuzo Suzuki Yuto Watanabe Zenjyuro Mori 2008 Yuzo Suzuki Tomohiko Matsuoka Takaichi Onuma 2009 Yuta Mita Yuichi Sugimura Masaru Shitanda 2010 Yuta Takahashi Yuki Fukui Tomohiko Matsuoka 2011 Takuya Takeoka Takaichi Onuma Yuki Inaoka 2012 Zenjyuro Mori Yuta Sawamura Yuta Takahashi 2013 Masanaga Nakamura Takuya Takeoka Yuta Takahashi 2014 Igor Titkov Takehiro Kaga Andrei Luzin 2015 Yuta Sawamura Yukou Harada Kasin Osawa 2016 Takuma Yamada Kashin Osawa Chiharu Higuchi 2017 Takuya Takeoka Chiharu Higuchi Takuya Yagihashi 2018 Chiharu Higuchi Yuki Yoza Yuki Usuda 2019 Takehiro Kaga Yuki Shimizu Kazutaka Watari
Lightweight (-65 kg) YearGoldSilverBronze 1984 Masahiro Oga Tatsumi Nakae Haruo Nakijima 1985 Kenji Midori Hiroyuki Miake Yoshikuni Toyoda 1986 Takahiro Kajiwara Masahiro Sakurazawa Toshhiko Imanishi 1987 Kenji Midori Hiroyuki Miake Hisayoshi Tsuda 1988 Takahiro Kajiwara Taichi Nishimura Toshhiko Imanishi 1989 Seiji Yamame Toshhiko Imanishi Hisayoshi Tsuda 1990 Kenji Midori Kensaku Yamamoto Ken Kato 1991 Kensaku Yamamoto Masanori Nagatomo Naoki Kuniyoshi 1992 Kensaku Yamamoto Kohtara Arinaga Kou Tanigawa 1993 Kensaku Yamamoto Seiji Yamane Katae Minoru 1994 Kou Tanigawa Ryū Narushima Kohtara Arinaga 1995 Ryū Narushima Takeshi Fukuda Nobuyuki Kamio 1996 Masafumi Tagahara Nobuyuki Kamio Hiromitsu Takano 1997 World Kyokushin Championships the same year 1998 Hiroyuki Kidachi Koji Yasuda Masafumi Tagahara 1999 Ryū Narushima Koji Yasuda Masafumi Tagahara 2000 Masafumi Tagahara Makoto Ozaki Hisashi Noki 2001 Yuuki Fukui Shiro Yaginuma Koji Yasuda 2002 Osamu Shiojima Ryo Ozaki Tomohiko Matsuoka 2003 Osamu Shiojima Atsushi Ono Takahiro Fukuda 2004 Yuuki Fukui Tomohiko Matsuoka Makoto Ozaki 2005 Makoto Ozaki Atsushi Ono Shintarou Koyama 2006 Yuzo Suzuki Makoto Ozaki Kunitomo Kondou 2007 Yuuki Fukui Yuya Fujita Makoto Ozaki 2008 Roman Semtšenko Nikolai Krush Yuta Mita 2009 Yuzo Suzuki Tomohiko Matsuoka Takaichi Onuma 2010 Yuya Fujita Yuta Sawamura Masato Osugi 2011 Yuta Sawamura Kazumasa Aizawa Yuko Harada 2012 Takaichi Onuma Naoya Kimura Aleksandr Mihailov 2013 Yukou Harada Yoshimasa Tokushige Hiroisa Nishino 2014 Genki Kamei Yuki Shimizu Yuya Konishi 2015 Yuki Shimizu Takaichi Onuma Yuki Yoza 2016 Yuki Yoza Yuki Fukui Yuki Shimizu 2017 Kazutaka Watari BeyNoah Alexander Aristov 2018 BeyNoah Alim Junusov Jevgeni Gluhov 2019 Alexander Aristov Alim Junusov Kento Kobayashi
U.S. Weight Category Karate Championships (USWC) The Kyokushin U.S. Weight Category Karate Championships (USWC) is the annual Kyokushin Karate U.S. Championship. It has been held in Los Angeles since 2005 and is held in four different weight classes. Previously, the All American Open was held in 1996, where the championship is played in the open weight class. In the first year, there were three weight classes.US Championships - IKO kyokushinresults.com Cited 2.6.2017
Super Heavyweight (+90 kg) YearGoldSilverBronze 2006 Marek Kosowski Michael Martinez Slawomir Was 2007 Slawomir Was Luis Giralt Daymon Miller 2008 Slawek Was Petar Martinov Hristo Hristov 2009 Marcin Sieradzki Petar Martinov Yordan Yanev 2010 Marcin Sieradzki Mark Berg Joe Nguyen 2011 Arkadiusz Szir Daniel Milicevic Kris Erickson 2012 Daniel Milicevic Mark Berg Seiichiro Fujimoto 2013 Daniel Milicevic Matth Payne Mark Berg 2014 Daniel Milicevic Patryk Sypien Mark Berg 2015 Mark Berg Damian Kolano Lucas McKinnon 2016 Taiga Yanagisawa Ryan Powell Seiichiro Fujimoto 2017 Goderzi Kapanadze Daniel Milicevic Taiga Yanagisawa 2018 Miguel Rodriguez Taiga Yanagisawa Stanimir Kondov 2019 Taiga Yanagisawa Stanimir Kondov 2020 Stanimir Kondov Woo Cheol Roh
Heavyweight (-90 kg)