Karate at the World Games
Games Gold Silver Bronze
1981 Santa Clara Yoshikazu Ono ( JPN ) Toshiaki Maeda ( JPN ) Robert De Luca ( ITA ) Kesayoshi Yokouchi ( JPN )
1985 London Roel van Loen ( NED ) Arno Lund ( NOR ) Ignacio Lugo ( MEX ) Ramon Malave ( SWE )
1989 Karlsruhe Janne Timonen ( FIN ) Reginaldo Doran ( NED ) Francesco Muffato ( ITA ) Jesús Juan Rubio ( ESP )
1993 The Hague Murat Uysal ( GER ) Michael Braun ( FRA ) Jeffrey Snel ( NED )
1997 Lahti Marc Golding ( AUS ) Olli Ortiz ( FIN ) Sveinung Byberg ( NOR ) Jukka Koivunen ( FIN )
2001 Akita Jason Ledgister ( GBR ) Jean Carlos Peña ( VEN ) Yusuke Inokoshi ( JPN )
2005 Duisburg Dimitrios Triantafyllis ( GRE ) Luis Plumacher ( VEN ) Christian Grüner ( GER )
2009 Kaohsiung Ádám Kovács ( HUN ) William Rollé ( FRA ) Ömer Kemaloğlu ( TUR )
Medalists -- Men
Karate was introduced as a World Games sport at the 1981 World Games in Santa Clara, California.