Sakura Kokumai

Sakura Kokumai, born on October 2, 1992, is an American karateka who competes in women's individual kata. She won the gold medal in the event at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima and again at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, and she took the gold in kata at the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival in Mexico. In 2012 she won a bronze medal at the World Karate Championships in Paris. She represented the United States in the women's kata event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where she lost her bronze medal match to Viviana Bottaro of Italy. In April 2021 she recorded an incident of anti-Asian harassment during a training session and shared it on Instagram.