1st World Weight Championship in Kyokushin (SHIN (WKO)). Chiba, Japan, 1997

Lightweight (up to 70 kg)

  1. Kou Tanigawa — Japan
  2. Viktor Dergausov — Russia
  3. Antal Bencze — Hungary
  4. Narumi Okito — Japan

Middleweight (up to 80 kg)

  1. Tadashi Ishihara — Japan
  2. Muzaffer Bacak — Germany
  3. Kentoku Saeki — Japan
  4. Shinegori Sakamoto — Japan

Heavyweight (over 80 kg)

  1. Norichika Tsukamoto — Japan
  2. Toru Okamoto — Japan
  3. Burghard Gartner — Germany
  4. Frank Russo — Australia