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Karin Prinsloo (born 1972) is a South African

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ka, gold medal winner of the 6th

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(2001) in the under 60 kg

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category and Karate instructor formerly based in

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, South Africa, now living in

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. She is listed among the top Karate competitors of all time. The World Games are an international multi-sport event first held in 1981 and organised and governed by the

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(IWGA) under the

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(IOC). The World Games are for sports that are not contested in the

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. The 6th World Games were held in 2001 in Akita, Japan. Selection for the World Games involves either being placed within the top 8 sports persons in the world in a sport or winning the continental games. In Prinsloo's case she won the

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. Prinsloo was the only South African representative of the sport of Karate to attend the 6th World Games. In 2009 she was part of the national coaching staff for Team South Africa at the Commonwealth Karate Championships as well as in 2010 at the UFAK Africa Championships and Cape Town.

Achievements

On 25 October 2008, Prinsloo graded to 6th Dan in the

Japan Karate Association The Japan Karate Association (日本空手協会; ''Nihon Karate Kyokai''; JKA; sometimes referred to simply as ''Kyokai'' 協会 in Japan) is one of the oldest global Shotokan karate organizations in the world. Origins Gichin Funakoshi played ...

(JKA). She was graded by

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and Stan Schmidt. In September 2015 she was graded by the Japan Karate Federation as a Level C Judge, Level D Examiner and Level C Instructor. Prinsloo represented JKA South Africa at the following international JKA events: *1992: The 4th Shoto Cup,

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, Japan: Ladies Open Kata, last 8 competitors. *1994: The 5th Shoto Cup,

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, USA. *1998: The 7th Shoto Cup,

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, France: Ladies Individual kata, Bronze Medal *1999: Female World Cup,

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, France: Gold medal - ladies kumite under 60 kg *2004: The 9th Shoto Cup, Tokyo, Japan: Silver - Team kumite, Bronze - Team kata *2006: 10th Funakoshi Gichin Cup World Karate-do Championship,

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, Australia: Silver - Team kata, Bronze - Team kumite *2008: Commonwealth Karate Championships,

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, Scotland: Bronze - individual ladies kumite under 60 kg, Silver - ladies team kumite Prinsloo represented South Africa at the following WKF World Championships: *1994:

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, Malaysia *1996: Sun City, South Africa *1998:

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, Germany *2002:

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, Spain Other achievements: *1995:

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, Zimbabwe: Silver medal ladies kata *1999:

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, South Africa: Gold - ladies kumite under 60 kg, Gold - ladies team kata, Bronze - ladies kata *2003:

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, Nigeria: Silver - ladies kata, Silver - ladies under 60 kg kumite, Silver - ladies team kumite, Gold - ladies open kumite In the period 1991 to 2008, within South Africa Prinsloo has been SA JKA female open

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champion 12 times and open kumite champion 7 times and been ranked number one in open kata and kumite under 60 kg more than 10 times. In 2010, she attended the 14th WKF Africa Seniors Karate Championships (UFAK) in

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, South Africa and the 1st JKA Africa Championships in Johannesburg in 2015.

Selected media

Tekki Shodan – Kata & Bunkai – Shotokan Kata – Karin Prinsloo
on ''YouTube''
Heian Godan – Important Points and Bunkai by Karin Prinsloo
on ''YouTube''
Children Karate Warm Ups
on ''YouTube''

Personal life

Prinsloo was born in

Klerksdorp Klerksdorp ( ) is located in the North West Province (South Africa), North West Province, South Africa. Klerksdorp is located southeast of Mahikeng, the provincial capital. Klerksdorp was also the first capital of the then Transvaal Republic and u ...

and grew up in

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, South Africa. She started training in Karate in 1982. She studied at

Rand Afrikaans University The Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) (Afrikaans: ''Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit'') was a prominent South African institution of higher education and research that served the greater Johannesburg area and surroundings from 1967 to 2004. It ha ...

(RAU) and obtained a B.Com. (Sport Management) with major in Human Movement Studies. She followed that with a B.Com. Hons (Sport Management) also from RAU. While at RAU she was awarded Sports Woman of the Year in 1992, 1994 and 1995. In 1997 Prinsloo took ownership of a Karate school called Pinetown JKA Karate and in 2000 established Pinetown JKA Karate Institute. In 2018 Dylan Powell became head instructor at Pinetown JKA. Prinsloo would still like to win a medal at the

Karate World Championships The Karate World Championships, also known as the World Karate Championships, are the highest level of competition for karate organized by the World Karate Federation (WKF). The competition is held in a different city every two years. Championsh ...

. Prinsloo is active on Facebook with a blog entitled
Karin Prinsloo - Karate Blog - For the Love of Karate
'. She is married with two children. In 2019 Prinsloo emigrated to

References

External links

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on ''Facebook''
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SA JKA Karate
on ''RuClips'' * {{DEFAULTSORT:Prinsloo, Karin Living people 1972 births South African female karateka World Games gold medalists for South Africa World Games medalists in karate Sportspeople from Klerksdorp Medalists at the 2001 World Games

Achievements

Selected media

Personal life

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