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Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto first woman in 56 years to claim three-peat

Montreal – Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto retained the figure skating world title with a stellar performance in Montreal on Friday and became the first woman to win three straight crowns since American Peggy Fleming in 1968. Sakamoto was in fourth place after the short program, but the 23-year-old’s dazzling free skate to “Wild Is The Wind/Feeling

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Sakamoto and Uno seek world figure skating three-peats

Montreal – Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto and Shoma Uno each will seek their third consecutive world crowns at the 2024 World Figure Skating Championships, which begin Wednesday in Montreal. Not since American Peggy Fleming won world titles from 1966 through 1968 has anyone captured three women’s world titles in a row, but Sakamoto could achieve the

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Sakamoto, Uno seek world figure skating ‘three-peats’

Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto and Shoma Uno each will seek their third consecutive world crowns at the 2024 World Figure Skating Championships, which begin Wednesday in Montreal. Not since American Peggy Fleming won world titles from 1966 through 1968 has anyone captured three women’s world titles in a row, but Sakamoto could achieve the feat and

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Kaori Sakamoto wins Challenge Cup in Netherlands

TILBURG, Netherlands – Figure skating world champion Kaori Sakamoto won the Challenge Cup in Tilburg, Netherlands, beating short program leader Yuna Aoki in a 1-2 finish for Japan on Sunday. The Beijing Olympic bronze medalist totaled 212.43 to win the non-ISU Grand Prix series event for the second time in a row. Aoki, who sprang

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Japan’s Rei Sakamoto wins junior Australian Open title

Japan’s Rei Sakamoto, 17, became just the second Japanese player to win a junior boys’ Grand Slam singles title on Saturday, topping Jan Kumstat of the Czech Republic in a tight three-set Australian Open final. Sakamoto, the No. 4 seed in Melbourne, had dropped just a single set on his way to the final but

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Malinin, Sakamoto win at Beijing Grand Prix Final

The United States’ Ilia Malinin said he was “amazed” to have smashed the competition in the men’s event at the Grand Prix Final in Beijing Saturday, despite falling on his first trademark jump. Malinin finished 17 points ahead of his nearest rival, two-time world champion Shoma Uno, with a final tally of 314.66. In the

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Kaori Sakamoto wins first Grand Prix Final title

BEIJING – Reigning world figure skating champion Kaori Sakamoto picked up her first Grand Prix Final title Saturday. The 23-year-old from Kobe earned 148.35 points in the free skate for a total of 225.70 at Beijing’s National Indoor Stadium. Belgium’s Loena Hendrickx finished second with 203.36 points, 0.20 above third-place Hana Yoshida of Japan, who

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