Kaori Sakamoto

Kaori Sakamoto
Sakamoto at the 2016–17 JGP Final
Personal information
Native name	坂本花織
Country represented	Japan
Born	(2000-04-09) April 9, 2000 (age 17) Kobe, Japan
Height	1.54 m (5 ft 1⁄2 in)
Coach	Sonoko Nakano, Mitsuko Graham
Choreographer	Masahiro Kawagoe, Massimo Scali
Former choreographer	Sonoko Nakano, Yukina Ota
Skating club	Kobe FSC
Training locations	Hyōgo Prefecture
Began skating	2004
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	195.54 2017 Junior Worlds
Short program	67.78 2017 Junior Worlds
Free skate	127.76 2017 Junior Worlds
Medal record Representing  Japan Figure skating: Ladies' singles World Junior Championships 2017 Taipei Ladies' singles Junior Grand Prix Final 2016–17 Marseille Ladies' singles

Kaori Sakamoto (born April 9, 2000) is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2017 World Junior bronze medalist, 2016 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, 2016 JGP Yokohama champion, and 2017 Japan junior national champion.

Sakamoto won the gold medal at the 2012–13 Japan Novice Championships and placed 9th at the Japan Junior Championships that same year.

During the 2013–14 season, Sakamoto debuted on the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) circuit, placing 6th in Ostrava, Czech Republic. She finished 8th at the Japan Junior Championships.

Sakamoto started her season by finishing 7th at her JGP event in Aichi, Japan. She went on to win the Japanese national silver medal on the junior level before placing 6th on the senior level at the 2014–15 Japan Championships. Those results gave her a spot to compete at the 2015 World Junior Championships, where she placed 6th.

Sakamoto began her season by winning the silver medal at her JGP event in Riga, Latvia, and finishing 4th at her JGP event in Toruń, Poland. Due to a stress fracture in her right shinbone, she stayed off the ice in October and resumed skating without jumps in November. At the Japanese Championships, she placed 5th competing in the junior event and 13th on the senior level.