World Karate Championship Weight Categories (World Cup)

The 3rd World championship in weight categories, June 18-19, 2005 , Japan

Organized in for the second time in Japan, this time in Osaka. This edition had added one more category in the women’s division, three categories for men and the same for women in other words.

Lightweight
1 Kou Tanigawa (Japan)
2 Vasily Khudyakov (Russia)
3 Dimitar Popov (Bulgaria)
4 Vytautas Viscius (Lithuania)

Middleweight
1 Valeri Dimitrov (Bulgaria)
2 Alexey Leonov (Kazakhstan)
3 Gaku Yasumoto (Japan)
4 Tsuyoshi Takezawa (Japan)

Heavyweight
1 Takayuki Tsukagoshi (Japan)
2 Donatas Imbras (Lithuania)
3 Kunihiro Suzuki (Japan)
4 Norichika Tsukamoto (Japan)

Best Fighting Spirit: Daniel Torok (Hungary)
Best Technique: Dimitar Popov (Bulgaria)

Women
Lightweight
1 Nozomi Kanemitsu (Japan)
2 Kumiko Sunakawa (Japan)
3 Yuka Kobayashi (Japan)
4 Marina Anfimova (Russia)

Middleweight
1 Misaki Sato (Japan)
2 Yukina Yamaguchi (Japan)
3 Mimiko Fukuda (Japan)
4 Anca Wallmen (Romania)

Heavyweight
1 Veronika Szovetes (Hungary)
2 Maria Stensson (Sweden)
3 Ayumi Noguchi (Japan)
4 Alina Kazhanova (Russia)

Best Fighting Spirit: Mariya Gridneva (Kazakhstan)
Best Technique: Anca Wallmen (Romania)

Finals