Reigning men’s world champion Ryo Kiyuna produced another fine display to overcome team-mate Issei Shimbaba, with Japan sweeping the top six positions at the Stade Pierre de Coubertin.

Arata Kinjo and Yuhei Horiba each took home a bronze medal.

Hikaru Ono clinched the women’s title in the French capital, a candidate city for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with victory over Sandy Scordo in the final.

The bronze medals in the category went the way of Spain’s Sandra Sanchez and Alexandra Feracci of France.

It proved to be a successful opening to the Karate1 Premier League campaign as they concluded the first event of the season with a haul of 13 medals.

Defending men’s under 84 kilograms kumite world champion Ryutaro Araga secured his fifth major gold medal as he beat Ryutaro Araga in the final.

Greek karateka Georgios Tzanos and Poorshab Zabihollah of Iran were the recipients of the two bronze medals on offer in the category.

Miho Mihara ousted Ayaka Tadano in an all-Japanese women’s under 50kg final, while Turkish duo Umay Tokcan and Serap Ozcelik claimed bronze.

The Japanese success in Paris was complete when Natsumi Kawamura proved too strong for France’s Nadege Ait Ibrahim, much to the disappointment of the home crowd, in the final of the women’s over 68kg weight division.

Anne Laure Florentin added to the French haul with bronze, with Ayumi Ueksa sealing the other on offer.

Taravat Khaksar of Iran topped the podium at a Karate1 Premier League event for the first time in her career as she ended the fairytale run of Scotland’s Amy Connell in the women’s under 55kg gold medal bout.

Kathryn Campbell of Canada and Spain’s Cristina Ferrer both finished third.

Khaksar’s compatriot Sajad Ganjzadeh justified his status as the current world champion by winning the men’s over 84kg category.

The Iranian was pushed all the way by Tyron-Darnell Lardy of The Netherlands in the final before he eventually prevailed to clinch the gold medal.

Italy’s Simone Marino and Saman Heydari of Iran each earned bronze.

Alizée Agier was able to deliver the success the crowd inside the arena craved as she sealed the women’s under 68kg crown by beating Iryna Zaretska of Azerbaijan.

Jovana Prekovic of Serbia outlined exactly why she is considered one of the rising stars in the sport as she overcame Merve Coban of Turkey, a European Championships silver medallist, to take the women’s under 61kg title.

Haya Jumaa of Canada and Mayumi Someya of Japan took home a bronze medal apiece.

While Japan dominated the individual kata competitions, Italy swept the team event as their women beat Germany in the final, with Spain and Italy claiming bronze.

Italy won gold and silver in the men's event, while France picked up both bronze medals.