World Karate Championship Weight Categories (World Cup)

The 5th World championship in weight categories, April 13-14th, 2013 Lithuania

This time the men’s category had added the fourth category. We did also see the first official “outside entry” by Japanese fighter Yuto Fukuchi (Byakuren-Kaikan) qualified trough the 29th All Japan Weight Category Tournament – 2012.


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Lightweight
1 Dmitriy Moiseev (Kazakhstan)
2 Yuki Maeda (Japan)
3 Takayuki Tsukagoshi (Japan)
3 Andrius Miseckas (Lithuania)

Middleweight
1 Orest Proc (Lithuania)
2 Daiki Kato (Japan)
3 Kazufumi Shimamoto (Japan)
3 Shota Maeda (Japan)

Heavyweight
1 Valeri Dimitrov (Bulgaria)
2 Lukas Kubilius (Lithuania)
3 Roman Nesterenko (Russia)
3 Yuji Shimamoto (Japan)

Women Division
Lightweight

1 Sayaka Kato (Japan)
2 Mariya Gridneva (Kazakhstan)
3 Diana Maciute (Lithuania)
3 Rita Pivoriunaite (Lithuania)

Middleweight
1 Misaki Sato (Japan)
2 Noriko Yokoyama (Japan)
3 Gabija Gudeliauskaite (Lithuania)
3 Takayo Kimura (Japan)

Heavyweight
1 Margarita Ciuplyte (Lithuania)
2 Emi Shoguchi (Japan)
3 Csenge Szepesi (Hungary)
3 Diana Balsyte (Lithuania)