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 2022 Olympic team event silver medalist, a three-time World champion (2022-2024), the 2025 World silver medalist, the 2018 Four Continents champion, the 2023–24 Grand Prix Final champion, the 2024-25 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, an eleven-time ISU Grand Prix medalist (seven golds, three silvers, and one bronze), the 2025 Asian Winter Games silver medalist, the 2023 World University Games silver medalist, and a five-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).