International History

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

-          Theodore Roosevelt

The Man in the Arena is an excerpt from his speech "Citizenship In A Republic" April 23, 1910 at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France.    

The USA National Karate-do Federation has a rich history in international competition. We are very proud of the accomplishments of our TeamUSA athletes. We can be inspired from the work these individuals put in to bring success for themselves and our great nation. Congratulations to our medal winners. 

Below we list the medal winners from the Pan American Karate Federation Championships*, the Pan American Games, World Games and the World Karate Federation World Championships, and coming in 2020 the Olympics:

*Unfortunately we only have PKF results from 2012 and later.  We are working to get the results from 1981-2011

Year Event Athlete Medal Division
2022 World Games Trinity Allen Bronze -55kg Kumite
2022 World Games Gakuji Tozaki Bronze Kata
2022 World Games Kamran Madani Bronze -84kg Kumite
2022 PKF Championship Sakura Kokumai Gold Kata
2022 PKF Championship Trinity Allen Bronze -55kg Kumite
2022 PKF Championship Women's Team Bronze Kumite
2022 PKF Championship Ariel Torres Gold Kata
2022 PKF Championship Gakuji Tozaki Silver Kata
2022 PKF Championship Tom Scott Gold -75kg Kumite
2022 PKF Championship Brian Irr Gold #ERROR!
2022 PKF Championship Sabahudin Tricic Silver Para-Karate Visually Impaired/Blind Kata
2022 PKF Championship John Klatt Bronze Para-Karate Visually Impaired/Blind Kata
2022 PKF Championship Jamie Green Bronze Para-Karate Intellectually Impaired Kata
2022 PKF Championship Kevin Rodriquez Gold Para-Karate Intellectually Impaired Kata
2021 World Championship Anastasia Hayes Gold Para-Karate Visually Impaired/Blind Kata
2021 World Championship Trinity Allen Silver -55kg Kumite
2021 World Championship Tom Scott Bronze -75kg Kumite
2021 PKF Championship Sakura Kokumai Gold Kata
2021 PKF Championship Trinity Allen Gold -55kg Kumite
2021 PKF Championship Skylar Lingl Gold -68kg Kumite
2021 PKF Championship Ariel Torres Gold Kata
2021 PKF Championship Anastasia Hayes Gold Para-Karate Visually Impaired/Blind Kata
2021 PKF Championship Gakuji Tozaki Silver Kata
2021 PKF Championship Tom Scott Silver -75kg Kumite
2021 PKF Championship Kamran Madani Silver -84kg Kumite
2021 PKF Championship Tom Scott, Brian Irr, Kamran Madani, Brian Ramrup, Josue Hernandez, Jared Smith, Davoud Ashrafian Jazi Silver Male Team Kumite
2021 PKF Championship Jessica Kwong Bronze Kata
2021 PKF Championship Eva Alexander Bronze -50kg Kumite
2021 PKF Championship Cirrus Lingl Bronze #ERROR!
2021 PKF Championship Brian Irr Bronze #ERROR!
2021 2020 Olympic Games Ariel Torres Bronze Kata
2019 ANOC Beach Games Gakuji Tozaki Bronze Kata
2019 Pan-American Games Sakura Kokumai Gold Kata
2019 Pan-American Games Tom Scott Gold -75kg Kumite
2019 Pan-American Games Brian Irr Gold #ERROR!
2019 Pan-American Games Kamran Madani Gold -84kg Kumite
2019 Pan-American Games Shannon Nishi Gold -50kg Kumite
2019 Pan-American Games Ariel Torres Silver Kata
2019 Pan-American Games Cirrus Lingl Bronze #ERROR!
2019 PKF Championship Cheryl Murphy Gold -68kg Kumite
2019 PKF Championship Maya Wasowicz Gold #ERROR!
2019 PKF Championship Ariel Torres Gold Kata
2019 PKF Championship Tom Scott Gold -75kg Kumite
2019 PKF Championship Sabahudin Tricic Gold Para-Karate Visually Impaired/Blind
2019 PKF Championship Sakura Kokumai Silver Kata
2019 PKF Championship Skylar Lingl Silver -68kg Kumite
2019 PKF Championship Jessica Kwong Bronze Kata
2019 PKF Championship Brian Irr Bronze #ERROR!
2019 PKF Championship Cirrus Lingl, Cheryl Murphy, Shannon Nishi, Maya Wasowicz Bronze Women's Team Kumite
2019 PKF Championship Noah Frisvold, Tomas Greer, Brian Hilliard, Kamran Madani, Tom Scott, Jared Smith Bronze Men's Team Kumite

Below is the history of TeamUSA ranked against the countries of the WKF at each World Championship and PKF Championship* by medal count. This ranking is for all medals in the competition, over the years certain divisions were not included in the official ranking.

*Unfortunately we only have PKF results from 2012 and later. We are working to get the results from 1981-2011

Year Location Event Rank Gold Silver Bronze
1970 Tokyo, Japan 1st World Karate Championship 3 0 0 1
1972 Paris, France 2nd World Karate Championship no rank 0 0 0
1975 Long Beach, United States 3rd World Karate Championship no rank 0 0 0
1977 Tokyo, Japan 4th World Karate Championship 4 0 0 1
1980 Madrid, Spain 5th World Karate Championship 4 1 1 1
1982 Taipei, Taiwan 6th World Karate Championship 10 0 1 0
1984 Maastricht, Netherlands 7th World Karate Championship 14 0 0 1
1986 Sydney, Australia 8th World Karate Championship 13 0 0 1
1988 Cairo, Egypt 9th World Karate Championship 8 0 1 2
1990 Mexico City, Mexico 10th World Karate Championship 9 0 1 1
1992 Granada, Spain 11th World Karate Championship 7 0 2 0
1994 Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia 12th World Karate Championship no rank 0 0 0
1996 Sun City, South Africa 13th World Karate Championship 9 0 2 1
1998 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 14th World Karate Championship 12 0 1 0
2000 Munich, Germany 15th World Karate Championship 12 0 0 1
2002 Madrid, Spain 16th World Karate Championship 4 2 0 0
2004 Monterrey, Mexico 17th World Karate Championship 3 2 0 2
2006 Tampere, Finland 18th World Karate Championship 22 0 0 1
2008 Tokyo, Japan 19th World Karate Championship 8 1 1 0
2010 Belgrade, Serbia 20th World Karate Championship 16 0 0 3
2012 Paris, France 21st World Karate Championship 13 0 0 2
2012 Nicaragua XXVI PKF Championship 1 4 2 2
2013 Argentina XVII PKF Championship 1 2 3 1
2014 Bremen, Germany 22nd World Karate Championship no rank 0 0 0
2014 Lima, Peru XXVII PKF Championship 3 2 1 0
2015 Toronto, Canada XXIX PKF Championship 4 2 1 1
2016 Linz, Austria 23rd World Karate Championship 19 0 0 1
2016 Rio de Janero, Brazil XXX PKF Championship 7 1 0 4
2018 Willemstad, Curacao XXXI PKF Championship 4 3 1 7
2018 Madrid, Spain 24th Karate World Championship no rank 0 0 0
2018 Madrid, Spain WKF Para-Karate World Championship no rank 0 0 0
2019 Panama, Panama XXXII PKF Championship 1 5 2 7
2021 Punta Del Este, Uruguay XXXIII PKF Championship 2 5 4 4
2021 Tokyo, Japan 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games 15 0 0 1
2021 Dubai, UAE 25th Karate World Championship 12 0 1 1
2021 Dubai, UAE WKF Para-Karate World Championship 4 1 0 0