Kaori Sakamoto

Kaori Sakamoto is a Japanese figure skater from Kobe who competes in women's singles. She won the Olympic bronze medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics and the silver medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics, and she helped Japan take silver in the team event at both Games. She is a four-time World champion, winning the title in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026, and she also won the Grand Prix Final in 2023-24 and the Four Continents Championships in 2018. Her three consecutive world titles were the first by any Japanese skater, and she is the only Japanese skater in any discipline to have won four. At the junior level she took bronze at the 2017 World Junior Championships, and she has been Japanese national champion six times.