The 2006 World Karate Championships are the 18th edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Tampere, Finland from October 12 to October 15, 2006.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Luca Valdesi  Italy	Takashi Katada  Japan	Akio Tamashiro  Peru
			Antonio Díaz  Venezuela
Team kata	Italy Vincenzo Figuccio Lucio Maurino Luca Valdesi	France Julien Dupont Ayoub Neghliz Jonathan Plagnol	Japan
			Egypt
Kumite −60 kg	Hossein Rouhani  Iran	Gurban Taghiyev  Azerbaijan	Montassar Tabben  Tunisia
			Ibrahim Khalifa  Egypt
Kumite −65 kg	César Castaño  Spain	Luis Plumacher  Venezuela	Donny Dharmawan  Indonesia
			Marko Lučić  Croatia
Kumite −70 kg	Rafael Aghayev  Azerbaijan	Diego Vandeschrick  Belgium	Saeid Farrokhi  Iran
			Takuro Nihei  Japan
Kumite −75 kg	Jasem Vishkaei  Iran	David Santana  Spain	El-Sayed El-Feky  Egypt
			Ko Matsuhisa  Japan
Kumite −80 kg	Luigi Busà  Italy	Mohamed Abdelrahman  Egypt	Esmaeil Torkzad  Iran
			Philippe Poirier  Canada
Kumite +80 kg	Marko Luhamaa  Estonia	Mohanad Magdy  Egypt	Stefano Maniscalco  Italy
			Yann Baillon  France
Kumite open	Stefano Maniscalco  Italy	Daniël Sabanovic  Netherlands	Khalid Khalidov  Kazakhstan
			Iván Leal  Spain
Team kumite	Spain Iván Leal Francisco Martínez Óscar Martínez Cristian Rodríguez Antonio Sánchez David Santana Óscar Vázquez	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Egypt
			England

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Sara Battaglia  Italy	Nguyễn Hoàng Ngân  Vietnam	Myriam Szkudlarek  France
			Eimi Kurita  United States
Team kata	France Jessica Buil Sabrina Buil Laëtitia Guesnel	Japan	Spain Miriam Cogolludo Ruth Jiménez Almudena Muñoz
			Peru
Kumite −53 kg	Tomoko Araga  Japan	Selene Guglielmi  Italy	Heba El-Sayed  Egypt
			Kora Knühmann  Germany
Kumite −60 kg	Eva Medveďová  Slovakia	Nassim Varasteh  Canada	Diana Schwab  Switzerland
			Yuka Sato  Japan
Kumite +60 kg	Laurence Fischer  France	Ayaka Arai  Japan	Jessica Bratich  Australia
			Tamara Filipović  Serbia
Kumite open	Yıldız Aras  Turkey	Yadira Lira  Mexico	Claudia Niţu  Romania
			Snežana Perić  Serbia
Team kumite	Japan	Spain Gloria Casanova Irene Colomar Cristina Feo Lucía Zamora	Germany Jeannine Herrgesell Kora Knühmann Silvia Sperner Nadine Ziemer
			Switzerland Fanny Clavien Reta Duverney Marilena Rubini Diana Schwab

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	5	1	1	7
2	Japan	2	3	4	9
3	Spain	2	2	2	6
4	France	2	1	2	5
5	Iran	2	0	2	4
6	Azerbaijan	1	1	0	2
7	Estonia	1	0	0	1
	Slovakia	1	0	0	1
	Turkey	1	0	0	1
10	Egypt	0	2	5	7
11	Canada	0	1	1	2
	Venezuela	0	1	1	2
13	Belgium	0	1	0	1
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	1	0	1
	Mexico	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
	Vietnam	0	1	0	1
18	Germany	0	0	2	2
	Peru	0	0	2	2
	Serbia	0	0	2	2
	Switzerland	0	0	2	2
22	Australia	0	0	1	1
	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	England	0	0	1	1
	Indonesia	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (29 entries)		17	17	34	68

766 athletes from 81 nations competed.^[1]

• World Karate Federation
• Karate Records – World Championship 2006
• Men's results  Women's results  Team results