The 1st World title of Steven Da Costa at only 21 years old. The 3rd consecutive gold medal of Ryu Kiyuna and Iran’s male Kumite team. Jonathan Horne's heavyweight victory, Sandra Sanchez's one in kata, the wins of sparklings Dorota Banaszczyk and Eleni Chatziliadou, Rafael Aghayev's 7th World medal... These World championships in Madrid (November 6-11, 2018) confirmed Japan’s lead and the excellence of the Iranian fighters.
MEN
-60kg
- Crescenzo (Ita)
- Sago (Jap)
- Assadilov (Kaz) and Ameknassi (Mar)
-67 kg
- S. Da Costa (Fra)
- Figueira (Bra)
- Derafshipour (Ira) and Velozo (Chi)
-75kg
- Asgari (Ira)
- Busa (Ita)
- Aghayev (Aze) and Nishimura (Jap)
-84 kg
- Kvesic (Cro)
- Chobotar (Ukr)
- Poorshab (Ira) and Aktas (Tur)
+84 kg
- Horne (All)
- Ganjzadeh (Ira)
- Seck (Esp) and Yamanoglu (Tur)
Team Kumite
- Iran (Asgari, Abazari, Heydari, Asiabari, Khodabakhshi, Poorshab, Ganjzadeh)
- Turkey (Gok, Eltemur, Aktas, Yamanoglu, Uygur, Kaptan, Ozer)
- Japan (Ando, Araga, Kagawa, Shimada, Sakiyama, Mori, Nishimura) and Italy (Jendoubi, Maestri, Maresca, Marino, Martina, El Sharaby, Minardi)
Kata
- Kiyuna (Jap)
- Quintero (Spa)
- Busato (Ita) and Sofuoglu (Tur)
Team Kata
- Japan (Kinjo, Kimura, Kiyuna)
- Spain (Galan, Salazar, Carbonell)
- Iran (Delikhoun, Shahrjerdi, Zand) and Italy (Gallo, Panagia, Iodice)
WOMEN
-50 kg
- Miyahara (Jap)
- Ozcelik (Tur)
- Plank (Aut) and Bahmanyar (Ira)
-55kg
- Banzsczyk (Pol)
- Bitsch (Ger)
- Wen (TPE) and Goranova (Bul)
-61 kg
- Prekovic (Ser)
- Yin Xiaoyan (Chi)
- Sadini (Mar) and Lotfy (Egy)
-68kg
- Zaretska (Aze)
- Isaeva (Rus)
- Matoub (Alg) and Kopunova (Svk)
+68 kg
- Chatziliadou (Gre)
- Uekusa (Jap)
- Abouel Yazed (Egy) and Antunovic (Swe)
Team Kumite
- France (Avazeri, Brito, Heurtault, Sivert)
- Japan (Kawamura, Uekusa, Someya, Saito)
- Spain (Ferrer Garcia, Torres Garcia, Palacio, Vizcaino) and Egypt (Abdelaziz, Ahmed, Abouel, Lotfy)
Kata
- Sanchez Jaime (Spain)
- Shimizu (Jap)
- Bottaro (Ita) and Grace Lau (HK)
Team Kata
- Japan (Ishibashi, Taira, Mugiyama)
- Spain (Rodriguez, Garcia, Roy)
- Italy (Battaglia, Pezzetti, D’Onofrio) and Turkey (Sofuoglu, Eltemur, Kusmus)
