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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 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 national champion.
Nov 18, 2023 · World champion Kaori Sakamoto has secured her place at figure skating’s Grand Prix Finals with her second series win of the season at Grand Prix Espoo.
Mar 30, 2024 · Sakamoto Kaori on mission accomplished at Worlds: 'The three-peat was something I targeted all year' - Exclusive. The Japanese star opens up on what it means to go three-from-three, how she sees her standing among Japan’s female skating greats, the 2026 Winter Olympic Games – and more.
Mar 22, 2024 · Kaori Sakamoto of Japan claims gold in the women's competition at the World Figure Skating Championships. Sakamoto is the first woman to win three straight world titles since Peggy...
Mar 23, 2024 · Kaori Sakamoto won her third straight figure skating world championship Friday in Montreal, becoming the first woman to achieve a singles "three-peat" since 1968.
Mar 24, 2023 · Kaori Sakamoto defends world title to end Saitama jinx. Kaori Sakamoto poses with her gold medal after winning the women's singles competition at the 2023 ISU World Figure Skating...
Mar 25, 2022 · Sakamoto Kaori wins World Championships title, becomes sixth Japanese woman to capture gold. The Olympic bronze medallist was the favourite coming into Montpellier and never wavered. Belgium's Loena Hendrickx won silver and Alysa Liu of the U.S. captured the bronze.
Mar 23, 2024 · Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto rallied from fourth place after the short program to become the first woman to three-peat at figure skating worlds since American Peggy Fleming in 1968. Isabeau Levito followed with her first world championships medal — silver — at 17 years old, 10.8 points behind and one year after taking fourth.
Dec 26, 2021 · Kaori Sakamoto delivered a commanding free skate on Saturday to secure her second national championship and a berth at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Exclusive - Sakamoto Kaori on how she's faced down mounting pressures: 'I've come far to a special place' The reigning Olympic bronze medallist and now two-time world champion opens up in an exclusive interview with Olympics.com on how she bounced back after a rocky post-Games showing.
