The 2000 World Karate Championships are the 15th edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Munich, Germany from October 12 to October 15, 2000.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Michaël Milon  France	Ryoki Abe  Japan	Luca Valdesi  Italy
Team kata	Japan	France Yves Bardreau Stéphane Mari Laurent Riccio	Spain Javier Hernández David Toro Fernando San José
Kumite −60 kg	Cécil Boulesnane  France	Francesco Ortu  Italy	Damien Dovy  Benin
			Kenichi Imai  Japan
Kumite −65 kg	Lazar Boskovic  Germany	Ángel Ramiro  Spain	Alexandre Biamonti  France
			George Kotaka  United States
Kumite −70 kg	Junior Lefevre  Croatia	Fodé Ndao  Senegal	Mehdi Amouzadeh  Iran
			Rida Bel-Lahsen  France
Kumite −75 kg	Iván Leal  Spain	Fadi Chaabo  Germany	David Félix  France
			Gennaro Talarico  Italy
Kumite −80 kg	Daniël Sabanovic  Netherlands	Yann Baillon  France	Thomas Nitschmann  Germany
			Alejandro Arnáiz  Spain
Kumite +80 kg	Mamadou Ndiaye  Senegal	Seydina Baldé  France	Mehran Behnamfar  Iran
			Marc Haubold  Germany
Kumite open	Christophe Pinna  France	Davide Benetello  Italy	Saeid Ashtian  Iran
			Konstantinos Papadopoulos  Greece
Team kumite	France Yann Baillon Seydina Baldé Olivier Beaudry Rida Bel-Lahsen Alexandre Biamonti Cécil Boulesnane David Félix Robert Gomis	Germany Samad Azadi Fadi Chaabo Mark Haubold Andreas Horn Thomas Nitschmann Emanuel Racanel Senol Yildirim	England
			Spain Alejandro Arnáiz Serafín Blanco Tomás Herrero Iván Leal Óscar Olivares David Ortega Óscar Vázquez

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual kata	Atsuko Wakai  Japan	Myriam Szkudlarek  France	Roberta Sodero  Italy
Team kata	France Jessica Buil Sabrina Buil Myriam Szkudlarek	Japan	Italy
Kumite −53 kg	Hiromi Hasama  Japan	Nadia Mecheri  France	Gladys Eusebio  Peru
			Marijana Vićovac  Yugoslavia
Kumite −60 kg	Alexandra Witteborn  Germany	Chiara Stella Bux  Italy	Slađana Mitić  Yugoslavia
			Mayumi Baba  Japan
Kumite +60 kg	Natsu Yamaguchi  Japan	Gloria Casanova  Spain	Elisabeth Fuchs  Austria
			Laurence Fischer  France
Kumite open	Yıldız Aras  Turkey	Nathalie Leroy  France	Eri Fujioka  Japan
			Roberta Minet  Italy
Team kumite	France Patricia Chéreau Laurence Fischer Nathalie Leroy Nadia Mecheri	Spain Gloria Casanova Cristina Feo Estefanía García Sonia Gómez	Japan
			Turkey Yıldız Aras Gülderen Çelik Meral Ölmez

  *   Host nation (Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	6	6	4	16
2	Japan	4	2	4	10
3	Germany*	2	2	2	6
4	Spain	1	3	3	7
5	Senegal	1	1	0	2
6	Turkey	1	0	1	2
7	Croatia	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
9	Italy	0	3	5	8
10	Iran	0	0	3	3
11	Yugoslavia	0	0	2	2
12	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Benin	0	0	1	1
	England	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Peru	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		17	17	30	64

• World Karate Federation
• Official Website
• Karate Records – World Championship 2000
• Results