MONTREAL—Karate Canada has continued its commitment to ensuring a safe and welcoming environment for all by signing an agreement to join Abuse-Free Sport, the new independent program to prevent and address maltreatment in sport. Karate Canada, and its stakeholders at the national level, will have access to the services of the Office of the Sport...

WKF President Antonio Espinós headed the presentation which also had Spanish Karate Federation (RFEK) President Antonio Moreno, the Councillor for Culture and Sport of the Government of Navarra Rebeca Esnaola, and Spanish Karate athletes María Torres and Paola García in attendance. The Karate representatives were also welcomed at the headquarters of the regional government by...

MONTREAL—Karate Canada tapped Randy Rix to help develop Canada’s next generation of elite kumite athletes as the organizations new Junior National Team Head Coach. Rix, who has been a personal coach to several international medallists over the last two decades while also serving as Karate New Brunswick’s head coach, will take on this new challenge...

SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I.—British Columbia’s Ella Crowle and Quebec’s Anton Gurin will fly out of Prince Edward Island on top of the nation after winning the final karate kumite gold medals of the 2023 Canada Winter Games on Thursday. Victoria’s Ella Crowle went unbeaten in her four matches to handily win the women’s +59kg weight class. “I...

SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I.—Team Alberta stole the show in the women’s -59kg and men’s -68kg, capturing a double dose of gold at the penultimate day of kumite competitions at the Canada Winter Games on Wednesday in Summerside, P.E.I. The Calgary-based teens ran the show in the middle-based weight categories in the sport’s debut at the Canada Winter...