{"id":70229,"date":"2026-03-27T19:57:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/kaori-sakamoto-ends-career-with-fourth-world-title-as-glenn-falls-out-of-medals\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:57:42","slug":"kaori-sakamoto-ends-career-with-fourth-world-title-as-glenn-falls-out-of-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/kaori-sakamoto-ends-career-with-fourth-world-title-as-glenn-falls-out-of-medals\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaori Sakamoto ends career with fourth world title as Glenn falls out of medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Sakamoto signs off with fourth world title in Prague<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Japan\u2019s Chiba takes silver as Pinzarrone wins bronze<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Levito fourth after Liu withdraws and Glenn slips back<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Japan\u2019s Kaori Sakamoto closed out her competitive career with her fourth world title in the women\u2019s singles competition at the Figure Skating World Championships in Prague, Czechia on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year old wrapped up a historic skating career which included four Olympic medals, including two silvers at this year\u2019s Milan Cortina Games, with a personal-best 238.28 after an emotional free skate performance at O2 Arena. She\u2019s the first women\u2019s single skater to win four world championships since Michelle Kwan, who won her fifth in 2003.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/27\/kaori-sakamoto-figure-skating-world-championships-prague-career-finale\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sakamoto signs off with fourth world title in Prague Japan\u2019s Chiba takes silver as Pinzarrone wins bronze Levito fourth after Liu withdraws and Glenn slips back Japan\u2019s Kaori Sakamoto closed out her competitive career with her fourth world title in the women\u2019s singles competition at the Figure Skating World Championships in Prague, Czechia on Friday. &#8230; <a title=\"Kaori Sakamoto ends career with fourth world title as Glenn falls out of medals\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/kaori-sakamoto-ends-career-with-fourth-world-title-as-glenn-falls-out-of-medals\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kaori Sakamoto ends career with fourth world title as Glenn falls out of medals\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}