Karate at the 2023 Pan American Games
Karate pictogram
VenuePolideportivo Villa El Salvador
Start dateNovember 3, 2023 (2023-11-03)
End dateNovember 5, 2023 (2023-11-05)
No. of events12 (6 men, 6 women)
Competitors106 from TBD nations
«2019
2027»

Karate competitions at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile were held between November 3 and 5, 2023 at the Centro de Entrenamiento de los Deportes de Contacto.[1][2]

12 medal events were contested. Ten of these events were in kumite (five per gender). A further two events (one per gender) in kata were contested. A total of 106 athletes qualified to compete at the games.[3]

Qualification

A total of 106 karatekas will qualify to compete (96 qualified across four qualification tournaments and 10 extra nominal spots to the winners of the 2021 Junior Pan American Games. There will be nine athletes qualified in each individual event, excepting individual kata, which will feature eight athletes. Each nation may enter a maximum of 12 athletes (six per gender). This consists of a maximum of one athlete in the individual events (12). This rule does not apply to the winners of the 2021 Junior Pan American Games. The host nation, Chile, automatically qualifies the maximum number of athletes (12).[3]

Venezuela, Panama and Colombia's athletes will be eligible to qualify through the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Championship, while Mexico will qualify through the North American Cup.

Participating nations

A total of 21 countries qualified athletes.

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Chile)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Chile*3115
2 United States3025
3 Venezuela2125
4 Brazil1146
5 Ecuador1102
 Mexico1102
7 Puerto Rico1001
8 Colombia0336
9 Cuba0202
10 Canada0123
11 Peru0101
12 Independent Athletes Team0033
13 Argentina0022
 Dominican Republic0022
15 Aruba0011
 El Salvador0011
 Panama0011
Totals (17 entries)12122448

Medallists

Men's events
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual kata
 Ariel Torres
 United States		 Cleiver Leocadio
 Venezuela		 Luca Impagnatiello
 Argentina
Larry Aracena
 Dominican Republic
60 kg
 Enrique Villalón
 Chile		 Brayan Díaz
 Cuba		 Douglas Brose
 Brazil
Juan Fernández
 Colombia
67 kg
 Andrés Madera
 Venezuela		 Tomás Freire
 Chile		 Camilo Velozo
 Chile
Alberto Gálvez
 Panama
75 kg
 Thomas Scott
 United States		 Carlos Villarreal
 Mexico		 Allan Maldonado
 Independent Athletes Team
Juan Landazuri
 Colombia
84 kg
 José Acevedo
 Ecuador		 Rubén Henao
 Colombia		 Saisheren Senpon
 United States
Jorge Merino
 El Salvador
+84 kg
 Rodrigo Rojas
 Chile		 Lucas Fernandes
 Brazil		 Rob Timmermans
 Aruba
Giovani Salgado
 Brazil
Women's events
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual kata
 Sakura Kokumai
 United States		 Valentina Zapata
 Colombia		 Claudia Laos-Loo
 Canada
Andrea Armada
 Venezuela
50 kg
 Yorgelis Salazar
 Venezuela		 Yamina Lahyanssa
 Canada		 Bárbara Morales
 Independent Athletes Team
Yamila Benítez
 Argentina
55 kg
 Valentina Toro
 Chile		 Baurelys Torres
 Cuba		 Kelly Fernandes
 Brazil
Geraldine Peña
 Colombia
61 kg
 Janessa Fonseca
 Puerto Rico		 Alexandra Grande
 Peru		 Claudymar Garcés
 Venezuela
María Renée Wong
 Independent Athletes Team
68 kg
 Bárbara Rodrigues
 Brazil		 Wendy Mosquera
 Colombia		 Melissa Bratic
 Canada
Skylar Lingl
 United States
+68 kg
 Guadalupe Quintal
 Mexico		 Valeria Echever
 Ecuador		 Pamela Rodríguez
 Dominican Republic
Brenda Padilha
 Brazil

References

  1. ↑ "Santiago 2023 Officially Confirms Sports Venues". www.panamsports.org/. Panam Sports. 14 June 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  2. ↑ "Sport Calendar Pan American Games" (PDF). www.panamsports.org/. Panam Sports. 21 July 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Qualification System manual" (PDF). www.panamsports.org/. Pan American Sports Organization. 11 April 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.