Karate at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Qatar SC Indoor Hall
Dates	12–13 December 2006
Competitors	196 from 34 nations
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Karate competed by men and women at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. Kata contested along with Kumite in seven weight classes for men and four for women. All competition took place at the Qatar Sports Club Indoor Hall on December 12 and 13. Each country was limited to having 5 male and 3 female athletes.

Schedule

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kata details	Tetsuya Furukawa   Japan	Ku Jin Keat   Malaysia	Noel Espinosa   Philippines
			Shen Chia-hao   Chinese Taipei
Kumite −55 kg details	Hsieh Cheng-kang   Chinese Taipei	Puvaneswaran Ramasamy   Malaysia	Thamer Al-Malki   Saudi Arabia
			Phạm Trần Nguyên   Vietnam
Kumite −60 kg details	Hossein Rouhani   Iran	Kunasilan Lakanathan   Malaysia	Huang Hsiang-chen   Chinese Taipei
			Abdullah Dalloul   Qatar
Kumite −65 kg details	Hassan Rouhani   Iran	Shion Kayahara   Japan	Lim Yoke Wai   Malaysia
			Magid Adwan   Qatar
Kumite −70 kg details	Abdullah Al-Otaibi   Kuwait	Naowras Al-Hamwi   Syria	Saeid Farrokhi   Iran
			Takuro Nihei   Japan
Kumite −75 kg details	Jasem Vishkaei   Iran	Ko Matsuhisa   Japan	Shattyk Kazhymukanov   Kazakhstan
			Talat Khalil   Jordan
Kumite −80 kg details	Ahmad Muneer   Kuwait	Ryosuke Shimizu   Japan	Mutasembellah Khair   Jordan
			Esmaeil Torkzad   Iran
Kumite +80 kg details	Khalid Khalidov   Kazakhstan	Jaber Al-Hammad   Kuwait	Amer Abu Afifeh   Jordan
			Umar Syarief   Indonesia

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kata details	Nao Morooka   Japan	Nguyễn Hoàng Ngân   Vietnam	Cheung Pui Si   Macau
			Lim Lee Lee   Malaysia
Kumite −48 kg details	Vũ Thị Nguyệt Ánh   Vietnam	Vasantha Marial Anthony   Malaysia	Jittikan Tiemsurakan   Thailand
			Chen Yen-hui   Chinese Taipei
Kumite −53 kg details	Tomoko Araga   Japan	Marna Pabillore   Philippines	Venera Zhetibay   Kazakhstan
			Jenny Zeannet   Indonesia
Kumite −60 kg details	Yuka Sato   Japan	Nguyễn Thị Hải Yến   Vietnam	Chan Ka Man   Hong Kong
			Yamini Gopalasamy   Malaysia
Kumite +60 kg details	Sofiya Kaspulatova   Uzbekistan	Maitha Al-Maktoum   United Arab Emirates	Mardiah Nasution   Indonesia
			Paula Carion   Macau

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	3	1	8
2	Iran (IRI)	3	0	2	5
3	Kuwait (KUW)	2	1	0	3
4	Vietnam (VIE)	1	2	1	4
5	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	1	0	3	4
6	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	2	3
7	Uzbekistan (UZB)	1	0	0	1
8	Malaysia (MAS)	0	4	3	7
9	Philippines (PHI)	0	1	1	2
10	Syria (SYR)	0	1	0	1
	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0	1	0	1
12	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	3	3
	Jordan (JOR)	0	0	3	3
14	Macau (MAC)	0	0	2	2
	Qatar (QAT)	0	0	2	2
16	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	0	1	1
	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	0	1	1
	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		13	13	26	52

Participating nations

A total of 196 athletes from 34 nations competed in karate at the 2006 Asian Games: ^[1]

References

External links

• Official website