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1996 World Karate Championships

Host city	Sun City, South Africa
Dates	7–11 November
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The 1996 World Karate Championships are the 13th edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Sun City, South Africa from 7 to 11 November 1996.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Michaël Milon  France	Ryoki Abe  Japan	Lucio Maurino  Italy
Team kata	Japan	France	Italy
Kumite −60 kg	David Luque  Spain	Hakan Yağlı  Turkey	Shinichiro Yamamoto  Japan
			Rifat Mujanović  Yugoslavia
Kumite −65 kg	Mehdi Amouzadeh  Iran	Mark Golding  Australia	Alexandre Biamonti  France
			Bahattin Kandaz  Turkey
Kumite −70 kg	Aslan Gubashiev  Russia	Juraj Gažo  Slovakia	Reza Mohseni  Sweden
			Junior Lefevre  Belgium
Kumite −75 kg	Wayne Otto  Great Britain	Tomás Herrero  Spain	Kazuaki Matsumoto  Japan
			Gennaro Talarico  Italy
Kumite −80 kg	Gilles Cherdieu  France	Toshihito Kokubun  Japan	Georg Petermann  Austria
			Fernando García  Spain
Kumite +80 kg	Yasumasa Shimizu  Japan	Andrey Anikin  Russia	Teodor Rajić  Yugoslavia
			Ian Cole  Great Britain
Kumite open	Paul Alderson  Great Britain	Óscar Olivares  Spain	John Fonseca  United States
			Manabu Takenouchi  Japan
Team kumite	France	Great Britain	Yugoslavia
			Spain

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Yuki Mimura  Japan	Melanie Genung  United States	Shahrzad Mansouri  Germany
Team kata	Japan	United States	France
Kumite −53 kg	Theresia Larsson  Sweden	Marise Mazurier  France	Marianna Lauková  Slovakia
			Robyn Choi  Australia
Kumite −60 kg	Julliet Toney  Great Britain	Mayumi Baba  Japan	Chiara Stella Bux  Italy
			Leyla Gedik  Turkey
Kumite +60 kg	Patricia Duggin  Great Britain	Theodora Dougeni  Greece	Rosa Ortega  Spain
			Bregje Kaars-Sijpestein  Netherlands
Kumite open	Yvonne Senff  Netherlands Antilles	Izumi Nabeki  Japan	Karina Gansch  Austria
			Roberta Minet  Italy
Team kumite	Great Britain	Italy	Spain
			Australia

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain	5	1	1	7
2	Japan	4	4	3	11
3	France	3	2	2	7
4	Spain	1	2	4	7
5	Russia	1	1	0	2
6	Sweden	1	0	1	2
7	Iran	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands Antilles	1	0	0	1
9	United States	0	2	1	3
10	Italy	0	1	5	6
11	Australia	0	1	2	3
	Turkey	0	1	2	3
13	Slovakia	0	1	1	2
14	Greece	0	1	0	1
15	Yugoslavia	0	0	3	3
16	Austria	0	0	2	2
17	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		17	17	30	64

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