Azerbaijan’s Rafael Aghayev clinched gold in the men’s under 75 kilograms category ©WKF

Azerbaijan’s Rafael Aghayev clinched the gold medal in the men’s under 75 kilograms category to end his first Karate1-Premier League event of the season in style at Al-Ahli Club Dubai.

Aghayev dominated the division with a series of commanding victories and comfortably overcame Iran’s Bahman Asgari Ghoncheh in the final to seal the 14th international gold medal of his career.

Jordan’s Hatem Aldweik and Andrei Ganzen of Russia each took home bronze medals.

Spain’s Damian Quintero continued his impressive run of performances as he claimed his second successive triumph in the men’s individual kata, beating Germany’s Laurenz Bernier in the final.

The bronze medals in the category went to Malaysia’s Emmanuel Leong and Ali Sofuoglu of Turkey.

Spain dominated the kata division as Sandra Sánchez reaffirmed her status as the world number one by clinching the gold medal with victory over Sara Battaglia of Italy.

Grace Sheung of Hong Kong and Malaysian Yi Lee Xin both won bronze medals. 

In one of the picks of the final day of action, Italian world champion Sara Cardin suffered defeat to Syakilla Salnijefry Krishnan of Malaysia in the under 55kg kumite gold medal bout.

Esraa Abdelkader of Egypt and Russia’s Valeria Finashkina took the bronze medals.

The hosts had success to cheer as the United Arab Emirates Ahmed Said defeated  Azerbaijan’s Shahin Atamov, silver medallist at the opening Karate1-Premier League event of the season in Paris, to reign supreme in the men’s over 84kg final.

Turkey's reigning world champion Enes Erkan was forced to settle for bronze, along with Jonathan Horne of Germany.

Spain’s Damian Quintero continued his impressive run of performances as he claimed his second successive triumph in the men’s individual kata
Spain’s Damian Quintero continued his impressive run of performances as he claimed his second successive triumph in the men’s individual kata ©WKF

Bettina Plank secured the gold medal in the under 50kg kumite category, beating Radwa Radwan, much to the disappointment of the home crowd.

Areeg Rashed of Egypt and Germany’s Shara Hubrich were the bronze medallists. 

Giana Farouk added to the Egyptian haul by taking the under 61kg kumite honours thanks to recording victory in her clash for gold with Ingrida Suchankova of Russia.

Tunisia's Bouthaina Hasnaoui and Uzbekistan's Birno Mirzaeva were the bronze medallists. 

Silvia Semeraro of Italy edged Russian Inga Sherozia to seal the under 68kg kumite title as Guzaliya Gafurova of Kazakhstan and Turkey’s Kamila Ward rounded off the podium with a bronze apiece.

Switzerland’s Fanny Clavien dominated the women’s heavyweight division, taking the gold medal in the over 68kg category after proving too strong for Aisha Mohamed of Egypt in the final.

Slovakia’s Dominika Tatarova and Egyptian Sohila Abouismail both won bronze medals. 

The men’s under 60kg kumite title went the way of Italian Angelo Crescenzo, who defeated Darkhan Assadilov of Kazakhstan in the final.

Crescenzo’s team-mate Luca Maresa earned the bronze medal, as did Belgium's Michael Dasoul.

Malaysia won the men's team kata event Spain’s Damian Quintero continued his impressive run of performances as he claimed his second successive triumph in the men’s individual kata ©WKF
Malaysia won the men's team kata event Spain’s Damian Quintero continued his impressive run of performances as he claimed his second successive triumph in the men’s individual kata ©WKF

Egyptian Ali Elsawy ensured he took home the gold medal in the men’s under 67kg kumite category, overcoming Bashar Alnajjar of Jordan in the showpiece finale.

Bader Alotaibi secured a rare podium finish for Saudi Arabia with bronze, with the other going to Rinat Sagandykov of Kazakhstan.

Turkey also had a gold medal to celebrate by virtue of Ugur Aktas’ success against Mohamed Elkotby of Egypt in the final of the under 84kg category.

Raef Alturkistani bagged the bronze medal for Saudi Arabia and was joined in the top three by Iran's Zabiollah Poorshab.

Malaysia won the men’s team kata event, with Hong Kong claiming silver and Iran and Italy the bronze.

The gold medal in the women’s equivalent was earned by Italy.

Silver was clinched by Malaysia and Germany and Iran secured bronze medals.