Kaori Sakamoto

Kaori Sakamoto
Sakamoto performing her short program at the 2024 World Championships
Native name	坂本花織
Born	(2000-04-09) April 9, 2000 (age 24) Kobe, Japan
Height	1.59 m (5 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Japan
Discipline	Women's singles
Coach	Sonoko Nakano Mitsuko Graham Sei Kawahara
Skating club	Sysmex Kobe
Began skating	2004
Event Olympic Games 0 1 1 World Championships 3 0 0 Four Continents Championships 1 0 0 Grand Prix Final 1 0 0 Japan Championships 4 2 0 World Team Trophy 0 1 2 World Junior Championships 0 0 1 Junior Grand Prix Final 0 0 1 Medal list Olympic Games 2022 Beijing Team 2022 Beijing Singles World Championships 2022 Montpellier Singles 2023 Saitama Singles 2024 Montreal Singles Four Continents Championships 2018 Taipei Singles Grand Prix Final 2023–24 Beijing Singles Japan Championships 2018–19 Osaka Singles 2021–22 Saitama Singles 2022–23 Osaka Singles 2023–24 Nagano Singles 2017–18 Tokyo Singles 2020–21 Nagano Singles World Team Trophy 2019 Fokuoka Team 2021 Osaka Team 2023 Tokyo Team World Junior Championships 2017 Taipei Singles Junior Grand Prix Final 2016–17 Marseille Singles

Kaori Sakamoto (坂本花織, Sakamoto Kaori, born April 9, 2000) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2022 Olympic women's singles bronze medalist, the 2022 Olympic team event silver medalist,^[a] a three-time World champion (2022, 2023, 2024), the 2023–24 Grand Prix Final champion, the 2018 Four Continents champion, an eleven-time ISU Grand Prix medalist (seven golds, three silvers, and one bronze), and a four-time Japanese national champion. At the junior level, she is the 2017 World Junior bronze medalist and the 2016–17 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist.

She is the first Japanese woman to win the World Championships since Mao Asada in 2014, the first Japanese skater to win three consecutive World titles in any discipline, and the first woman to win three consecutive World titles since Peggy Fleming (1966–1968).
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