Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 55 kg

Women's kumite 55 kg at the Games of the Olympiad
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Venue	Nippon Budokan
Date	5 August 2021
Competitors	9 from 9 nations
Medalists
Ivet Goranova  Bulgaria Anzhelika Terliuga  Ukraine Bettina Plank  Austria Wen Tzu-yun  Chinese Taipei

Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics
List of karateka Qualification
	Men	Women
	kata	kata
	67 kg	55 kg
	75 kg	61 kg
	+75 kg	+61 kg

The women's kumite 55 kg competition in Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 5 August 2021 at the Nippon Budokan.

Competition format

The competition began with a two-pool round-robin stage followed by a single elimination stage. Each pool consisted of 4 or 5 athletes, with those positioned 1st and 4th seeded to Pool A, and those positioned 2nd and 3rd to Pool B. The athlete that finished first in Pool A faced the athlete that finished second in Pool B in the semifinals, and vice versa. There were no bronze medal matches in the kumite events. Losers of the semifinals each received a bronze medal.

Schedule

All times are in local time (UTC+9).

Date	Time	Round
Thursday, 5 August 2021	17:00 20:22 20:50 21:00	Pool stage Semifinals Gold medal match Victory ceremony

Results

Pool stage

Pool A

Pool B

Finals

	Semifinals				Gold medal
	A1  Ivet Goranova (BUL)	4
	B2  Bettina Plank (AUT)	3
					A1  Ivet Goranova (BUL)	5
					B1  Anzhelika Terliuga (UKR)	1
	B1  Anzhelika Terliuga (UKR)	4
	A2  Wen Tzu-yun (TPE)	4

External links

• Seeding and competition format
• Event Reports (Event Summary) Archived 2021-08-08 at the Wayback Machine
• Complete Results book of Karate Event in Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Archived 2021-08-10 at the Wayback Machine