The World Games 2022 is taking place July 7 to 17, 2022, in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Tokyo Olympic karate bronze medalist Grace Lau Mo-sheung of Hong Kong, competed in the women’s individual kata event at the World Games. Lau successfully won her first World Games medal, after defeating Carola Casale from Italy, in the Bronze medal match scoring 26.28 against Casale’s 25.54.
Joining The World Games for the first time, Grace Lau Mo-shueng seemed to be in great shape. Lau advanced to the final four with two wins and one loss, even though losing by 0.46 points to her close Japanese karateka rival Kiyou Shimizu.
In the semi-final she played Tokyo Olympic karate gold champion, Sandra Sanchez, but lost by a 1.26 point margin, (25.66 to 26.92). Retiring Sanchez went on take gold, beat Japan’s Hikaru Ono by 27.92 to 27.00 in the final….