The 2004 World Karate Championships are the 17th edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Monterrey, Mexico from November 18 to November 21, 2004.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Luca Valdesi  Italy	Akio Tamashiro  Peru	Antonio Díaz  Venezuela
			Toshihide Uchiage  Canada
Team kata	Italy Vincenzo Figuccio Lucio Maurino Luca Valdesi	Japan	France Julien Dupont Ayoub Neghliz Jonathan Plagnol
			Mexico
Kumite −60 kg	Paul Newby  England	Hossein Rouhani  Iran	David Luque  Spain
			Yury Kalashnikov  Russia
Kumite −65 kg	Luis Plumacher  Venezuela	Ádám Kovács  Hungary	Lucio Martínez  Argentina
			Alexandre Biamonti  France
Kumite −70 kg	Shinji Nagaki  Japan	Mensur Cakić  Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sayguidmagomed Shakhrudinov  Russia
			Óscar Vázquez  Spain
Kumite −75 kg	David Santana  Spain	Konstantinos Papadopoulos  Greece	Klaudio Farmadín  Slovakia
			Yavuz Karamollaoğlu  Turkey
Kumite −80 kg	Zeynel Çelik  Turkey	Daniël Sabanovic  Netherlands	Yann Baillon  France
			John Fonseca  United States
Kumite +80 kg	Alexander Gerunov  Russia	Leon Walters  England	Alen Zamlić  Croatia
			Thomas Bjuring  Denmark
Kumite open	Rory Daniels  England	Seydina Baldé  France	Stefano Maniscalco  Italy
			Mehran Behnamfar  Iran
Team kumite	France Yann Baillon Seydina Baldé Olivier Beaudry Ludovic Cacheux Franck Chantalou Guillaume Cossou Florian Malguy	Spain Santiago Bayo Sergio Cubero Iván Leal Francisco Martínez Óscar Martínez David Santana Óscar Vázquez	Italy Davide Benetello Giuseppe Di Domenico Vincenzo Iarnone Biagio Laforgia Salvatore Loria Stefano Maniscalco Ciro Massa
			Russia

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Atsuko Wakai  Japan	Myriam Szkudlarek  France	Alessandra Caribé  Brazil
			Yohana Sánchez  Venezuela
Team kata	Japan	France Jessica Buil Sabrina Buil Laëtitia Guesnel	Brazil
			Spain Miriam Cogolludo Ruth Jiménez Almudena Muñoz
Kumite −53 kg	Tomoko Araga  Japan	Cheili González  Guatemala	Shannon Nishi  United States
			Kora Knühmann  Germany
Kumite −60 kg	Yadira Lira  Mexico	Nathalie Leroy  France	Noelia Fernández  Spain
			Alexandra Kurtz  Germany
Kumite +60 kg	Elisa Au  United States	Vanesca Nortan  Netherlands	Zsuzsanna Klima  Hungary
			Laurence Fischer  France
Kumite open	Elisa Au  United States	Nadine Ziemer  Germany	Zsuzsanna Klima  Hungary
			Vanesca Nortan  Netherlands
Team kumite	Turkey Yıldız Aras Gülderen Çelik Vildan Doğan Meral Ölmez	Spain Gloria Casanova Cristina Feo Noelia Fernández Estefanía García	France Patricia Chéreau Laurence Fischer Nathalie Leroy Nadia Mécheri
			Germany Yasmina Benadda Kora Knühmann Alexandra Kurtz Nadine Ziemer

  *   Host nation (Mexico)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	4	1	0	5
2	England	2	1	0	3
3	Italy	2	0	2	4
	United States	2	0	2	4
5	Turkey	2	0	1	3
6	France	1	4	5	10
7	Spain	1	2	4	7
8	Russia	1	0	3	4
9	Venezuela	1	0	2	3
10	Mexico*	1	0	1	2
11	Netherlands	0	2	1	3
12	Germany	0	1	3	4
13	Hungary	0	1	2	3
14	Iran	0	1	1	2
15	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	1	0	1
	Greece	0	1	0	1
	Guatemala	0	1	0	1
	Peru	0	1	0	1
19	Brazil	0	0	2	2
20	Argentina	0	0	1	1
	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Croatia	0	0	1	1
	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 entries)		17	17	34	68

582 athletes from 79 nations competed.^[1]

• World Karate Federation
• Karate Records – World Championship 2004
• Men's results  Women's results
• Official website