VOV.VN - Three Vietnamese karate fighters Nguyen Thi Phuong, Nguyen Ngoc Tram, and Hoang Thi Thu Uyen triumphed over their ...

Being held as an Olympic sport for the first time ever, the various karate competitions will be worth having an eye on in Tokyo All karate competitions for Tokyo 2021 will take place at the Nippon ...

TOKYO - Spain's Sandra Sanchez, known as the "queen of kata", won karate's maiden gold medal on Thursday, defeating perennial rival and hometown favourite Kiyou Shimizu in the sport's historic debut ...

TOKYO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Japan's Ryo Kiyuna took men's kata karate gold on Friday, demonstrating his supremacy in the martial art form that originated in his native Okinawa a day after his compatriot ...

Ariel Torres made history on Friday with his bronze medal win in the men's individual karate kata, the first-ever for Team USA at an Olympic Games. Torres, who ranks as the No. 10 male kata athlete in ...

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA — It’s all about power, speed and balance for three 15-year-old local teens who practice their “team kata,” a form of karate, at the Shotokan Karate-do Association of Orange ...

Her hands move in a blur. Then they stop, frozen like stone. Sakura Kokumai is 27 years old and could be America’s best hope for a medal in karate at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. She has a menacing ...

Ryo Kiyuna, a three-time individual world champion, hails from Okinawa, where karate was developed centuries ago. By Ken Belson and Enya Toyama TOKYO — Every city that hosts the Olympics pushes for ...

Composer Gene Coleman, a Guggenheim-winning luminary in the worlds of experimental film and avant-garde music, is more the type to show up for a residency at a prestigious music festival rather than ...

TOKYO — The ancient martial art of Karate made its debut at the Summer Olympics in Japan this week. The sport was added as a nod to the country where it developed 700 years ago. There are two types of ...

The tournament is an acknowledgment of the martial art’s roots in Japan and a nod to its global stature. By Ken Belson Karate made its debut as an official Olympic sport at the Tokyo Games on Thursday ...