Katie Ledecky became the most decorated American woman in Olympic history and Simone Biles won gold in the women's gymnastics all-around final. The U.S. Olympic women's soccer team played its ...

REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado Iran’s Sajad Ganjzadeh and Egypt’s Feryal Abdelaziz ensured that all eight of karate’s gold medals at stake on its Olympic debut went to different nations as the sport ...

TOKYO, Aug 7 -- The final bout of karate's historic debut at the Olympics ended in uproar on Saturday when Saudi Arabian Tareg Hamedi's high-kick to Sajad Ganjzadeh's neck saw him disqualified and his ...

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 ...

Nishiya was 13 years old when she won, the second youngest (by two months) gold medal winner in Olympic history. Karate has been aiming for Olympic inclusion since the 1970s and Tokyo seemed the ...

Championships and double gold medallist at the Asian Karate Championships. While Karate is not yet an Olympic sport, it is a popular part of the Asian Games. Onu performed an impressive Kata ...

which have never won a gold medal, the prize winnings could be enough to set the athletes up for life—or certainly until the next Olympic Games. At the Tokyo Games in 2021, karate master Tareg ...

Jessie Da Costa of France has also impressed so far today. Da Costa is the twin brother of Steven, who was crowned the first ...

Scott was joined at the Tokyo Olympics by fellow Team USA karate athletes Ariel Torres ... Fonseca and Scott are the only two male athletes to win two gold medals at the Pan American Games.

There was much rejoicing in Okinawa Prefecture over Ryo Kiyuna becoming the first Okinawan native to win an Olympic gold medal after ... old's Aug. 6 achievement in karate’s “kata” event ...