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Kaori Sakamoto Ends Career with Fourth World Championship
Kaori Sakamoto ended her career with a personal best total score of 238.28, becoming the first woman since Michelle Kwan to win four world titles.
- On Friday, 25-year-old Kaori Sakamoto secured her fourth world figure skating title in Prague, marking her retirement from professional competition.
- Sakamoto delivered an elegant routine set to a medley of Edith Piaf classics, earning personal bests of 158.97 in the free skate and 238.28 total.
- Compatriot Mone Chiba claimed silver nearly 10 points behind, while Belgium's Nina Pinzarrone captured a surprise bronze as United States champion Amber Glenn dropped to sixth.
- With four world titles, Sakamoto ranks fifth all-time among women's figure skaters, concluding a career that included an individual bronze medal at the 2022 Olympics.
- Elsewhere in Prague, Olympic ice dance champions Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry dominated the rhythm dance, recording a season-best 92.74 points to lead the field.
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Kaori Sakamoto from Japan crowns her figure skating career with a fourth World Cup title and a personal best. Meanwhile, the evening ends as a disaster for American Amber Glenn, who once again misses a big single medal.
Figure skating: Sakamoto closes glittering career with fourth world title
Japan's Kaori Sakamoto delivered the skate of her life to end her glittering career on the highest possible note, capturing a fourth world figure skating title on Friday in her final competitive appearance.
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