Karate at the III Summer Youth Olympic Games
Venue	Europa Pavilion
Dates	17–18 October
No. of events	6 (3 boys, 3 girls)
Competitors	48 (24 boys, 24 girls) from 33 nations
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Karate at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
	Boys	Girls
	61 kg	53 kg
	68 kg	59 kg
	+68 kg	+59 kg
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Karate at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics was held from 17 to 18 October at Europa Pavilion in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This marked the debut of Karate at the Youth Olympics.

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter a maximum of 6 competitors, 3 per gender and one per event. As hosts, Argentina was given 4 quotas, 2 per gender. A further four places, two per gender, were granted by the Tripartite Commission. The remaining 40 places were to be decided in various ways; namely, the Youth Olympic Rankings and two qualification tournaments. Furthermore, all continents are guaranteed at least one athlete representation.^[1]

To be eligible to participate in these events, athletes must have been born between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2002.^[1]

Event	Location	Date	Places	-61 kg	-68 kg	+68 kg
Host Nation	-	-	-	Rodrigo Tello (ARG)	Juan Salsench (ARG)
Youth Olympic Rankings[2][3]	-	1 June 2018	2	Masaki Yamaoka (JPN)  Fahik Vaseli (MKD)	Rosario Ruggiero (ITA)  Abilmansur Batyrgali (KAZ)	Enes Bulut (TUR)  Tomáš Kósa (SVK)
Karate Qualification Tournament 1[4]	Umag	29 June 2018	2	Mohammad Al-Assiri (KSA)  Abdallah Hammad (JOR)	Robert Shyroian (UKR)  Kotaro Nakamura (JPN)	Keisei Sakiyama (JPN)  Robert Avakimov (RUS)
Karate Qualification Tournament 2[4]	Umag	30 June 2018	2	Alireza Faraji (IRI)  Pedro de la Roca (GUA)	Yassine Sekouri (MAR)  Quentin Mahauden (BEL)	Nabil Ech-Chaabi (MAR)  Navid Mohammadi (IRI)
Continental Representation	-	-	-			Raukawa Jefferies (NZL)
Reallocation	-	-	-	Oussama Edari (MAR)		Sean McCarthy (IRL)
Tripartite Invitation	-	-	-		Bojan Bošković (MNE)
TOTAL				8	8	8

Event	Location	Date	Places	-53 kg	-59 kg	+59 kg
Host Nation	-	-	-
Youth Olympic Rankings[2][3]	-	1 June 2018	2	Damla Ocak (TUR)  Rinka Tahata (JPN)	Charlotte Hope (GBR)  Kokoro Sakaji (JPN)	Kyriaki Kydonaki (GRE)  Laura Lyok (DEN)
Karate Qualification Tournament 1[4]	Umag	29 June 2018	2	Aika Okazaki (THA)  Yasmin Nasr El-Gewily (EGY)	Anna Chernysheva (RUS)  Mobina Heidari (IRI)	Janessa Fonseca (PUR)  Annika Sælid (NOR)
Karate Qualification Tournament 2[4]	Umag	30 June 2018	2	Fatemeh Khonakdar (IRI)  Dildora Alikulova (UZB)	Zsófia Baranyi (HUN)  Ivana Perović (SRB)	Sakura Sawashima (JPN)  Lauren Salisbury (GBR)
Continental Representation	-	-	-
Reallocation	-	-	-	Tânia Barros (POR)  Catalina Valdés (CHI)	Assia Oukhattou (FRA)  Marta Ossipova (EST)	Negin Altooni (IRI)
Tripartite Invitation	-	-	-			Sarah Al-Ameri (UAE)
TOTAL				8	8	8

NOC	Boys			Girls			Total
	-61 kg	-68 kg	+68 kg	-53 kg	-59 kg	+59 kg
Argentina	X	X					2
Belgium		X					1
Chile				X			1
Denmark						X	1
Egypt				X			1
Estonia					X		1
France					X		1
Great Britain					X	X	2
Greece						X	1
Guatemala	X						1
Hungary					X		1
Iran	X		X	X	X	X	5
Ireland			X				1
Italy		X					1
Japan	X	X	X	X	X	X	6
Jordan	X						1
Kazakhstan		X					1
Macedonia	X						1
Montenegro		X					1
Morocco	X	X	X				3
New Zealand			X				1
Norway						X	1
Portugal				X			1
Puerto Rico						X	1
Russia			X		X		2
Saudi Arabia	X						1
Serbia					X		1
Slovakia			X				1
Thailand				X			1
Turkey			X	X			2
Ukraine		X					1
United Arab Emirates						X	1
Uzbekistan				X			1
33 NOCs	8	8	8	8	8	8	48

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	1	3	0	4
2	Iran (IRI)	1	0	3	4
3	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
	Egypt (EGY)	1	0	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	1	0	0	1
7	Morocco (MAR)	0	2	1	3
8	Russia (RUS)	0	1	0	1
9	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	0	1	1
	North Macedonia (MKD)	0	0	1	1
	Serbia (SRB)	0	0	1	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		6	6	12	24

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys' 61 kg details	Mohammed Ayed Al Assiri  Saudi Arabia	Masaki Yamaoka  Japan	Oussama Edari  Morocco Fahik Veseli  Macedonia
Boys' 68 kg details	Quentin Mahauden  Belgium	Yassine Sekouri  Morocco	Abilmansur Batyrgali  Kazakhstan Rosario Ruggiero  Italy
Boys' +68 kg details	Navid Mohammadi  Iran	Nabil Ech-Chaabi  Morocco	Enes Bulut  Turkey Sean McCarthy Crean  Ireland

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  Boys' 61 kg victory ceremony
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  Boys' 68 kg victory ceremony
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  Boys' +68 kg victory ceremony

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Girls' 53 kg details	Yasmin Nasr Elgewily  Egypt	Rinka Tahata  Japan	Fatemeh Khonakdar  Iran Dildora Alikulova  Uzbekistan
Girls' 59 kg details	Kokoro Sakaji  Japan	Anna Chernysheva  Russia	Mobina Heidari  Iran Ivana Perovic  Serbia
Girls' +59 kg details	Annika Sælid  Norway	Sakura Sawashima  Japan	Lauren Salisbury  Great Britain Negin Altooni  Iran

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  Girls' 53 kg victory ceremony
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  Girls' 59 kg victory ceremony
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  Girls' +59 kg victory ceremony

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