Asian Karatedo Federation

Asian Karatedo Federation
Abbreviation AKF
Formation 1973[1]
Legal status Federation
Headquarters Headquarters of the AKF is situated in the country/region the elected President resides.
Location
Region served
Asian Continental countries/regions
Membership
39 Affiliated Countries
Official language
English is the official language. If any question in respect to the sport or technique of karate, it will be referred to the original Japanese text.
President
 Kuang-Huei Chang of Chinese Taipei
Website http://www.akf-karatedo.com/index.php

The Asian Karatedo Federation (AKF) is the governing body of sport karate of about 39 countries of karatedo federation in Asia.[2] The AKF is a non-profit organization and performs its activities on an amateur basis in compliance with the principles set forth in the Olympic Charter, duly recognized by the World Karate Federation, the largest international governing body of sport karate with over 180 member countries. It is the only karate organization recognised by the International Olympic Committee and has more than fifty million members. The AKF organizes the Asian Karatedo Championships, the Junior and Senior AKF Championships in every two years in between the Olympic and Asian Games and participates in WKF World Karate Championships. The President of the AKF is Kuang-Huei Chang of Chinese Taipei and Bill Mok of Hong Kong, China serves as the Secretary General.

History of AKF

Asian Karatedo Federation founded as APUKO (Asian Pacific Union of Karatedo Organizations) in the year 1973.

It changed to AUKO (Asian Union of Karatedo Organizations) in 1992 after WUKO was admitted to IOC.

The name was changed again in 1999 to AKF (Asian Karatedo Federation) in line with World Union of Karate-Do Organizations (WUKO) changed to World Karate Federation (WKF).[3]

AKF Country Member's Federations

  • Afghanistan Afghanistan
  • Bangladesh Bangladesh
  • Bahrain Bahrain
  • Brunei Brunei
  • Cambodia Cambodia
  • China China
  • Hong Kong Hong Kong, China
  • Indonesia Indonesia
  • India India
  • Iran Iran
  • Jordan Jordan
  • Japan Japan
  • Kazakhstan Kazakhstan
  • South Korea Korea
  • Kuwait Kuwait
  • Laos Lao PDR
  • Lebanon Lebanon
  • Macau Macau, China
  • Malaysia Malaysia
  • Mongolia Mongolia
  • Myanmar Myanmar
  • Nepal Nepal
  • Pakistan Pakistan
  • Philippines Philippines
  • State of Palestine Palestine
  • North Korea DPR Korea
  • Qatar Qatar
  • Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia
  • Singapore Singapore
  • Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
  • Syria Syria
  • Thailand Thailand
  • Tajikistan Tajikistan
  • East Timor Timor-Leste
  • Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei
  • United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates
  • Uzbekistan Uzbekistan
  • Vietnam Vietnam
  • Yemen Yemen

References

  1. ↑ "Black Belt July 1973". Books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  2. ↑ Archived January 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Archived October 2, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.

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