Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 61 kg

Women's kumite 61 kg at the Games of the Olympiad
Venue	Nippon Budokan
Date	6 August 2021
Competitors	10 from 10 nations
Medalists
Jovana Preković  Serbia Yin Xiaoyan  China Giana Farouk  Egypt Merve Çoban  Turkey

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 61 kg competition in Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 6 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 five 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
Friday, 6 August 2021	12:28 20:05 20:40 21:00	Pool stage Semifinals Gold medal match Victory ceremony

Results

Pool stage

Pool A

Pool B

Finals

	Semifinals				Gold medal
	A1  Yin Xiaoyan (CHN)	1
	B2  Giana Farouk (EGY)	1
					A1  Yin Xiaoyan (CHN)	0
					B1  Jovana Preković (SRB)	0
	B1  Jovana Preković (SRB)	2
	A2  Merve Çoban (TUR)	0

External links

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