World Karate Championship Weight Categories (World Cup)

The 1st World championship in weight categories 1997 (Chiba, Japan)

Men
Lightweight
1 Kou Tanigawa (Japan)
2 Dergausov Victor (Russia)
3 Antal Bencze (Hungary)
4 Okito Narumi (Japan)

Middleweight
1 Tadashi Ishihara (Japan)
2 Muzaffer Bacak (Germany)
3 Kentoku Saeki (Japan)
4 Shigenori Sakamoto (Japan)

Heavyweight
1 Norichika Tsukamoto (Japan)
2 Toru Okamoto (Japan)
3 Burghart Gaertner (Germany)
4 Frank Russo (Australia)

Women Divison
Lightweight

1 Rita Sztanko (Hungary)
2 Diana Mirkovic
3 Hiromi Tanaka (Japan)
4 Kim Tatiana (Russia)

Heavyweight
1 Roma Miksyte (Lithuania)
2 Ona Jomantaite (Lithuania)
3 Chisa Yonezawa (Japan)
4 Sumire Yonezawa (Japan)