International Traditional Karate Federation

International Traditional Karate Federation
Formation1974
TypeSports martial art association
Legal statusFederation
PurposeDevelopment of Traditional Karate Worldwide
HeadquartersCuritiba, Brazil
Location
Region served
Worldwide
Chairman
Gilberto Gaertner
Main organ
Brazil office & administration
Websitewww.itkf.global
RemarksFounder - H. Nishiyama

The International Traditional Karate Federation (国際伝統空手連盟, Kokusai Dentō Karate Renmei) or ITKF is the international governing body for Traditional Karate. This organisation was founded by Hidetaka Nishiyama. In the early 1990s, Nishiyama's refusal to align his ITKF organization with the World Union of Karate-Do Organizations (WUKO) caused the International Olympic Committee to suspend its recognition of WUKO as amateur karate's international governing body.[1][2] According to the IOC decision 101 from 1993 the ITKF and WUKO had been due to merge and form a unified karate organization under the IOC suggested name of WKF. The IOC further indicated its intention to recognize the merged WKF should ITKF and WUKO successfully fulfill the IOC 101 decision guidelines, but this did not eventuate.[3] The WUKO eventually became the World Union of Karate-Do Federations in late 2008.[3]

ITKF Officials

  • Chairman: Prof. Gilberto Gaertner
  • Board of Directors: Gilberto Gaertner, Antonio Walger, Roman Pavlovic
  • General Secretary: Luiz Alberto Küster
  • Treasurer: Rui Francisco Martins Marçal
  • Director General: Sadiomar Santos
  • Technical Committee: Gilberto Gaertner, Eligio Contareli, Justo Gomez
  • Communications & Marketing Committee: Eyal Nir, Roman Pavlovic, Ibrahim Al-Bakr, Leonardo Neves Berg do Prado,
  • Innovation and Technology Committee: Vinícius Sant’Anna Pinto, Joarez Evangelista Franco Junior, Rafael Gustavo Gaertner, Sheriff Abuel Enein,

Member Organizations

The ITKF is composed of Member Organizations established voluntarily and democratically in their own countries as governing body of Traditional Karate. [4]

PAN AMERICA

Country Federation City Chief Executive
MEXICO ITKF MEXICO Naucalpan de Juarez Alfredo Igor Arguello Hermida
USA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TRADITIONAL KARATE FEDERATION Wylie Brad Webb

AFRICA

Country Federation City Chief Executive
ALGERIA ALGERIA TRADITIONAL KARATE ASSOCIATION Algeria Kadir Bouguettaya
CONGO CONGO RDC Moussa Djuma Moise
EGYPT EGYPTIAN TRADITIONAL KARATE FEDERATION Cairo Ramy El Mekawy
GAMBIA GTKA - GAMBIA TRADITIONAL KARATE ASSOCIATION Muhamed Sarr
NIGERIA NTKF Hassan Abdullahi
SUDAN SUDANESE TRADITIONAL KARATE FEDERATION Jamal Guda
TANZANIA TTKF Muhammad Amin Suleiman
TUNISIA ATKT Tunis Lotfi Ouertani
COMOROS CTKC - COMOROS TRADITIONAL KARATE ASSOCIATION Said Youssouf Said Mohamed
ANGOLA NÚCLEO ANGOLANO DE KARATE TRADICIONAL Lubango Nzevuna Fidel André

ASIA

Country Federation City Chief Executive
INDIA NATIONAL KARATE FEDERATION New Delhi Jitesh Kumar
INDONESIA INATKF Jakarta Muhammad Muchlas Rowi
KUWAIT KUTKC - KUWAIT UNION AND TRADITIONAL KARATE COMMITTEE Kuwait Ahmed Hassan Alkhlefe
PAKISTAN PAKISTAN TRADITIONAL KARATE FEDERATION Quetta Jalal-Ud-Din
PALESTINE PTKF Jerusalem Ibahem Abukaf
UZBEKISTAN UZBEKISTAN ITKF KARATE-DO FEDERATION Tashkent Shukhatjon Kushmuradov
SRI LANKA SRI LANKA TRADITIONAL KARATE FEDERATION Wattala W J B Dedunupitiya
REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA CENTRE NATIONAL TRADITIONAL KARATE-DO FEDERATION OF Yerevan Suren Matevosyan
KAZAKHSTAN WESTERN KAZAKHSTAN ASSOCIATION OF KARATE-DO BUDO Uralsk Kuangaliyev Taras
BANGLADESH BANGLADESH TRADITIONAL KARATE FEDERATION Dhaka H. M. Nuruddin Chowdhury Rana
JORDAN JKA JORDAN Amman Emad Khalil
AZERBAIJAN AZERBAIJAN TRADITIONAL KARATE FEDERATION Baku Ayaz Ibishov
NEPAL NEPAL WADO RYU KARATE DO Kathmandu Hari Sharan K.C

References

  1. ^ "Karate in the Olympics? More than a pipe dream". Active Interest Media, Inc. (February 1985). Black Belt. Active Interest Media, Inc. pp. 40–44. ISSN 0277-3066.
  2. ^ Coleman, J. (1993): "Watch out, WUKO—Here comes Shotokan Karate's Nishiyama! Noted Instructor claims he is ready to lead Olympic Karate movement if IOC ousts WUKO." Black Belt, 31(4):18–22.
  3. ^ a b World Union of Karate-Do Federations: About us Archived 2010-05-07 at the Wayback Machine (c. 2009). Retrieved on April 17, 2010.
  4. ^ "ITKF Member Organizations". ITKF.
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