Kaori Sakamoto

Kaori Sakamoto
Sakamoto at the 2018 Four Continents podium
Native name	坂本花織
Born	(2000-04-09) April 9, 2000 (age 24) Kobe, Japan
Hometown	Kobe, Japan
Height	1.59 m (5 ft 2+1⁄2 in)[1]
Figure skating career
Country	Japan
Coach	Sonoko Nakano Mitsuko Graham Sei Kawahara
Skating club	Sysmex Kobe
Began skating	2003
Medal record Women's figure skating Representing  Japan Olympic Games 2022 Beijing Team[a][2] 2022 Beijing Women's singles World Championships 2022 Montpellier Women's singles 2023 Saitama Women's singles 2024 Montreal Women's singles Four Continents Championships 2018 Taipei Women's singles Grand Prix Final 2023–24 Beijing Women's singles World Team Trophy 2019 Fukuoka Team 2021 Osaka Team 2023 Tokyo Team World Junior Championships 2017 Taipei Women's singles Junior Grand Prix Final 2016–17 Marseille Women's singles

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. She is a silver medalist in the 2022 Olympic team event.^[a] 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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