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.
Medal Winners #
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 |
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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 |
Medal Count #
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 |
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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 |