Turkey's Serap Özçelik reached her sixth final from her past nine events, qualifying for the women's under-50 kilograms kumite gold medal match at the Karate 1-Series A competition in Santiago.

Santiago will host the final event of the Karate 1-Series A season, with competition taking place over three days in the Chilean capital city.

Tokyo 2020 official Yasuo Mori has claimed organisers of next year's Olympic Games are fully prepared for the impacts of any typhoon as he attended the karate test event in the Japanese capital.

Japanese star Kiyou Shimizu claimed the gold medal in the female kata event after beating Spanish rival Sandra Sánchez in a tie-breaker at the Karate 1-Premier League in Tokyo.

The Nippon Budokan sports hall will host the Tokyo 2020 karate test event tomorrow, following the conclusion of the fifth leg of the Karate 1-Premier League in the Japanese capital.

France’s Alizée Agier was among the stars to progress to finals on the second day of the Karate 1-Premier League in Tokyo.

Women's kata favourites Kiyou Shimizu and Sandra Sanchez will contest a fifth Karate 1-Premier League final after dominating the first day of competition in Tokyo.

The fifth stop of the 2019 Karate 1-Premier League season takes place this weekend, with the venue that will be used for the sport's Olympic Games debut at Tokyo 2020 playing host.

Morocco confirmed its status as the major karate powerhouse in Africa after topping the sport's medal table at the 2019 African Games in Rabat. 

Spanish world champion Sandra Sánchez will be among 62 karatekas participating in the kata competition at October's Association of National Olympic Committees World Beach Games in Qatar. 

A strong line-up has been confirmed for the African Games karate tournament which will take place in Rabat this month.

Japan’s Ryo Kiyuna and Spain’s Sandra Sánchez continue to lead the men’s and women’s kata rankings, following the World Karate Federation’s qualification standings update ahead of the sport’s Olympic Games debut at Tokyo 2020.

Karate athletes from all over the world have joined a campaign as part of the celebrations marking one-year-to-go until the start of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Antonio Espinós, President of the World Karate Federation, attended a momentous Extraordinary Congress of the Asian Karate Federation (AKF) in Tashkent as it elected a new President, Nasser Alrazooqi, and re-constituted its Executive Committee.