Kiyou Shimizu

Kiyou Shimizu (born 7 December 1993) is a Japanese karateka competing in the women's kata event. She is a two-time gold medalist at the World Karate Championships and a two-time gold medalist at the Asian Games. She is scheduled to represent Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics in karate.

Career

In 2014, she represented Japan at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea and she won the gold medal in the women's kata event. A month later she became world champion in this event at the 2014 World Karate Championships held in Bremen, Germany.

In 2015, she won the gold medal in the women's kata event at the 2015 Asian Karate Championships held in Yokohama, Japan.

At the 2016 World Karate Championships in Linz, Austria she repeated her 2014 success by winning the gold medal in the women's kata event for the second time.

In 2017, she won the gold medal in the women's kata event at the 2017 World Games held in Wrocław, Poland.

In 2018, she won a medal in three major tournaments. At the 2018 Asian Karate Championships held in Amman, Jordan she won the gold medal in the women's kata event. She also won the gold medal in the women's kata event at the 2018 Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her success continued at the 2018 World Karate Championships held in Madrid, Spain where she won the silver medal in the women's individual kata event. In the final she lost against Sandra Sánchez of Spain.

At the 2019 Asian Karate Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan she won the gold medal in the women's individual kata event.

Personal life

She studied at Kansai University.

Achievements