TOKYO - Spain's Sandra Sanchez, known as the "queen of kata", won karate's maiden gold medal on Thursday, defeating perennial rival and hometown favourite Kiyou Shimizu in the sport's historic debut ...

Karate's debut as an Olympic sport brought some terrific athleticism ... In fact, no nation had more than one gold winner and that's including the two golds awarded in kata. Azerbaijan boasts two ...

The women's solo "kata" competition kicked off karate's first foray into the Olympics on Thursday, with veteran Sandra Sanchez of Spain taking the maiden gold and leaving her perennial rival and ...

Hong Kong’s athletes have rocked the Tokyo Olympics this week, winning a bronze in table tennis and another bronze in karate ... another bronze in women’s individual kata.