1998 World Karate Championships

Host city	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dates	15–18 October
Main venue	Ginásio do Maracanãzinho
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The 1998 World Karate Championships are the 14th edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from October 15 to October 18, 1998.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Ryoki Abe  Japan	Michaël Milon  France	Javier Hernández  Spain
Team kata	Japan	Italy	France Yves Bardreau Stéphane Mari Laurent Riccio
Kumite −60 kg	David Luque  Spain	Joël Barst  France	Hakan Yağlı  Turkey
			Francesco Ortu  Italy
Kumite −65 kg	Alexandre Biamonti  France	Jean Carlos Peña  Venezuela	Célio René Vieira  Brazil
			José Puertas  Spain
Kumite −70 kg	Haldun Alagaş  Turkey	Samad Azadi  Germany	Junior Lefevre  Belgium
			Shisua Shiina  Japan
Kumite −75 kg	David Félix  France	Antônio Carlos Pinto  Brazil	Allan Busk  Denmark
			Gennaro Talarico  Italy
Kumite −80 kg	Gilles Cherdieu  France	Ali Shaterzadeh  Iran	Zeynel Çelik  Turkey
			Wayne Otto  England
Kumite +80 kg	Marc Haubold  Germany	Yasumasa Shimizu  Japan	Óscar Olivares  Spain
			Davide Benetello  Italy
Kumite open	Konstantinos Papadopoulos  Greece	Marcos Fernández  Spain	Alireza Katiraei  Iran
			Leon Walters  England
Team kumite	France	England	Spain Marcos Fernández Fernando García Tomás Herrero César Martínez Jesús Montosa Óscar Olivares Óscar Vázquez
			Germany

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Atsuko Wakai  Japan	Myriam Szkudlarek  France	Roberta Sodero  Italy
Team kata	Japan	United States	Spain Susana Bueno Miriam Cogolludo Gema Méndez
Kumite −53 kg	Hiromi Hasama  Japan	Sari Laine  Finland	Nicole Jacobs  Germany
			Nadia Mecheri  France
Kumite −60 kg	Julliet Toney  England	Nathalie Leroy  France	Alexandra Witteborn  Germany
			Marianne Tarva  Finland
Kumite +60 kg	Laurence Fischer  France	Lourene Bevaart  Australia	Izumi Nabeki  Japan
			Judith Nagel  Germany
Kumite open	Maria Cecília de Almeida  Brazil	Petra Piskačová  Czech Republic	Tania Weekes  England
			Yıldız Aras  Turkey
Team kumite	Turkey Yıldız Aras Nurhan Fırat Leyla Gedik Meral Ölmez	England	Croatia
			Spain Gloria Casanova Rosa Ortega Beatriz Pérez

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	5	4	2	11
2	Japan	5	1	2	8
3	Turkey	2	0	3	5
4	England	1	2	3	6
5	Spain	1	1	6	8
6	Germany	1	1	4	6
7	Brazil*	1	1	1	3
8	Greece	1	0	0	1
9	Italy	0	1	4	5
10	Finland	0	1	1	2
	Iran	0	1	1	2
12	Australia	0	1	0	1
	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
	United States	0	1	0	1
	Venezuela	0	1	0	1
16	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Denmark	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		17	17	30	64

• World Karate Federation
• Karate Records – World Championship 1998
• Results