Japan's Kaori Sakamoto added the world figure skating title to her Olympic bronze medal.
Top of the world: Japan's Kaori Sakamoto skates to the world title on Friday.MONTPELLIER - Japan's Kaori Sakamoto on Friday added the world figure skating title to her Olympic bronze medal, capitalising on the absence of Russian rivals banned following the invasion of Ukraine.
At the Beijing Olympics last month, Russia claimed gold and silver through Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova while European champion Kamila Valieva was fourth after spending the Games embroiled in a drugs controversy. Belgium has only won three world medals in figure skating -- the previous two coming in pairs skating in 1947 and 1948.For Russian skating, Friday represented the end of an era of dominance.
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