Antonio Díaz (karateka)

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Díaz and the second or maternal family name is Fernández.
Antonio Díaz
Personal information
Full name Antonio José Díaz Fernández
Born June 12, 1980 (1980-06-12) (age 36)
Caracas, Venezuela
Medal record
Men's karate
Representing  Venezuela
World Games
2005 Duisburg Kata
2013 Cali Kata
2001 Akita Kata
2009 Kaohsiung Kata
Pan American Games
2003 Santo Domingo Kata
1999 Winnipeg Kata

Antonio José Díaz Fernández (born June 12, 1980 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan karateka. He is best known for winning gold medals in kata at the World Championships in France (2012) and Serbia (2010), winning of World Games Cali Colombia and a silver medal at the World Championships in Japan 2008. He won bronze medals at the WKF World Championships in karate 2002, 2004 and 2006 in the men's individual kata. He has also won the Pan American Karate Federation Senior Championships Gold Medal 14 times to date.

Karate

Antonio has been dominating the sport of karate for some time in the kata division. His main rival was Luca Valdesi. Their meetings have been fierce, 19 in total, with the Venezuelan having won nine of their competitions.

Díaz practices the style of Shito-ryu.

He participated in his first Pan American Championship when he was thirteen years of age and won, for the first time, first place in kumite. Up to the age of seventeen he won mostly in the division of kumite.

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