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Kaori Sakamoto. Kaori Sakamoto (坂本花織, Sakamoto Kaori, born April 9, 2000) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2022 Olympic bronze medalist, a three-time World champion ( 2022, 2023, 2024 ), the 2023–24 Grand Prix Final champion, the 2018 Four Continents champion, a five-time ISU Grand Prix champion, and a four-time Japanese ...
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Kaori Sakamoto (坂本花織 Sakamoto Kaori, born April 9, 2000) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2022 Winter Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time World champion (2022 & 2023) champion, the 2018 Four Continents champion, and a three-time Japanese national champion (2018-19, 2021-22, and 2022-23).
Sakamoto's hobbies include swimming and origami. In 2017, she signed an affiliation agreement with Sysmex Corporation, which will help to fund the financial costs of her competitive figure skating career.
2016-17 SeasonSakamoto's season began at the 2016 JGP France in Saint Gervais. She received second place after performing a near-clean short program and freeskate, behind Alina Zagitova.
Sakamoto's second Junior Grand Prix event was at 2016 JGP Japan in Yokohama. She led the short program by 0.80 points. In the freeskate, she placed second after under-rotating a jump, behind Marin Honda. She received the highest overall scores, and she won a Junior Grand Prix event for the first time, qualifying for the 2016-17 JGP Final.
At the 2016-17 JGP Final, Sakamoto placed second in the short program. A fall in the freeskate placed her in fourth in the segment, and third overall.
Later that year, Sakamoto placed 7th in Japanese nationals and won Japanese Junior nationals, thus qualifying for the 2017 World Junior Championships.
Sakamoto earned the bronze medal at 2017 World Junior Championships, having placed third in the short program and freeskate. She did not receive a single negative GOE from any of the judges during the competition.
2015-16 SeasonSakamoto's first major competition of this season was at 2015 JGP Latvia in Riga. She received the third highest score in the short program after missing an edge on the triple lutz. Despite a fall in the freeskate, she was able to manage second place in the freeskate and overall, behind Maria Sotskova.
(Season bests highlighted in bold, personal bests italicized)
(In chronological order)Segment Medal Record
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http://www.sysmex.co.jp/en/corporate/news/2017/171002.html
坂本花織. 坂本 花織 （さかもと かおり、 英語: Kaori Sakamoto, 2000年 4月9日 - ）は、 日本 の フィギュアスケート 選手（女子 シングル 種目）。. 兵庫県 神戸市 出身。. シスメックス 所属。. 神戸学院大学 卒業。. マネジメントは IMG TOKYO 。. 主な競技成績は ...
Hisashi " Kyu " Sakamoto ( Japanese: 坂本 九, Hepburn: Sakamoto Hisashi or Sakamoto Kyū, 10 December 1941 – 12 August 1985), legally registered as Hisashi Ōshima (大島 九, Ōshima Hisashi) since 1956, was a Japanese singer and actor. He was best known outside Japan for his international hit song "Ue o Muite Arukō" (known as "Sukiyaki ...
Kaori deserved her gold and her free skate score this comp (still not even her personal best) still surpassed that of the Russian silver and bronze medalists - who had quads - from the 2021 worlds (222 vs 220 and 217) where they last competed.
It was hard to have hope for a non-Russian major podium breakthrough after the 3A turned senior, but this was just before, and when Kaori finished 2nd in the SP at Worlds 2019 I thought... maybe she can do something. Kaori's flow and power both in skating and jumps just compelled me.
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Kaori Sakamoto has officially become one of the three Women able to score over 80 points in the Short Program without a Triple Axel!! (counting after the 2018-2019 change in the scoring system), here are the other two:
