2008 European Karate Championships
# 2008 European Karate Championships

The 2008 European Karate Championships, the 43rd edition, were held at the Saku Suurhall in Tallinn, Estonia from 2 May to 4 2008. A total of 509 karateka, 329 male and 180 female athletes, from 42 countries participated at the event.

## Participating countries

* Armenia
* Austria
* Azerbaijan
* Belgium
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Belarus
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Cyprus
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* England
* Spain
* Estonia
* Finland
* France
* Georgia
* Germany
* Greece
* Hungary
* Iceland
* Israel
* Italy
* Latvia
* Luxembourg
* Macedonia
* Montenegro
* Netherlands
* Norway
* Poland
* Portugal
* Romania
* Russia
* Scotland
* Slovenia
* Serbia
* Switzerland
* Slovakia
* Sweden
* Turkey
* Ukraine
* Wales

## Medallists

### Men's competition

**Individual**

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Kata | Luca Valdesi | Lucio Maurino | Vu Duc Minh Dack Jonathan Mottram |
| Kumite –60 kg | Danil Domdjoni | Davíd Luque | Michele Giuliani Alexander Heimann |
| Kumite –65 kg | Ömer Kemaloğlu | William Rollé | Thomas Kaserer Peter Macko |
| Kumite –70 kg | Óscar Vázquez | Rafael Aghayev | Nello Maestri Serkan Yağcı |
| Kumite –75 kg | Diego Davy Vandeschrick | Georgios Tzanos | Luigi Busà Klaudio Farmadín |
| Kumite –80 kg | Ludovic Cacheux | Slobodan Bitević | Enes Erkan Iván Leal |
| Kumite +80 kg | Jonathan Horne | Stefano Maniscalco | Okay Arpa Francisco Martínez |
| Kumite Open | Rafael Aghayev | Yavuz Karamollaoğlu | Neven Martić Daniël Sabanovic |

**Team**

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Kata | Italy Vincenzo Figuccio Lucio Maurino Luca Valdesi | France | Germany Spain |
| Kumite | Spain | Russia | Germany Azerbaijan |

### Women's competition

**Individual**

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Kata | Mirna Šenjug | Kristína Grmanová | Kübra Akarsu Almudena Muñoz |
| Kumite –53 kg | Kora Knühmann | Anna Fajkowska | Gülderen Çelik Serap Özçelik |
| Kumite –60 kg | Carmen Vicente | Maria Sobol | Iseni Ardita Petra Peceková |
| Kumite +60 kg | Fanny Clavien | Arnela Odžaković | Yıldız Aras Cristina Feo |
| Kumite Open | Eva Medveďová Tulejová | Merima Softić | Yıldız Aras Biljana Stojović |

**Team**

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Kata | Spain | Croatia | France Serbia |
| Kumite | Spain | Italy | Bosnia and Herzegovina Switzerland Jessica Cargill Fanny Clavien Yvonne Honauer Diana Schwab |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Spain (ESP) | 5 | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 2 | Italy (ITA) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 3 | Croatia (CRO) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Germany (GER) | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 5 | France (FRA) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | Turkey (TUR) | 1 | 1 | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | Slovakia (SVK) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | Azerbaijan (AZE) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | Russia (RUS) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | Serbia (SRB) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 14 | Greece (GRE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | North Macedonia (MKD) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (20 entries) | Totals (20 entries) | 17 | 17 | 34 | 68 |
