Kimmie Meissner Online

Be sure to tune in to ESPN at 7:30 PM (ET) to catch the action from the Ladies Short Program, which took place on Wednesday.

The ladies’ short program and ice-dancing finals at the World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The coverage lasts 3 1/2 hours, so you’re sure to get a nice dose of figure skating tonight!

Hot off the presses is news that Kimmie has finished 7th overall at the World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden.

She did fall during her free skate, but performed well enough to move up 2 places from where she was after the short program. Japan’s Mao Asada took the gold from Italy’s Caroline Kostner, who settled for the silver. South Korea’s Yu-na Kim rounded out the podium with the bronze.

Bebe Liang finished 10th and Ashley Wagner 16th.

Team USA will not get the 3 spots for the 2009 World Champs in LA, that they are accustomed to. The top 2 girls’ finishes needed to add up to no more than 13 in order to maintain 3 spots. As you can see, the total was 17, so only two Americans will be on the 2009 roster.

Kimmie scored a 57.25 in her short program, at the Figure Skating World Championships in Gotenberg, and currently sits in 9th place.

Kimmie leads all Team USA skaters as Bebe Liang (52.81) and Ashley Wagner (51.49) are in 10th and 11th place right now.

Though she is 7 points out of the lead, Kimmie was very pleased with her performance. Here is a quote:

“I don’t care at all. I am just so happy. … This is something I can be proud of.”

I agree. Skating a clean program is definitely something Kimmie should be proud of!

Italy’s Carolina Kostner (64.28) holds first place followed by Mao Asada (64.10) and Yukari Nakano (61.10) of Japan.

From: USA Today

After taking multiple spills in her two biggest events this season, Kimmie Meissner has a new coach. Now she’s looking for a change in results at this week’s World Figure Skating Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden.
“I feel very confident that I’m a lot better, and I feel a lot better,” says the 18-year-old from Bel Air, Md. “So we’ll just have to wait and see, and hopefully everybody else can see what I feel.”

Meissner won the world championship in 2006. But in January at U.S. nationals, she fell three times in her free skate and placed seventh. Last December, she fell three times in her free skate at the Grand Prix final in Italy and finished sixth (and last).

Following nationals, she left her longtime coach, Pam Gregory, and her training rink at the University of Delaware to work under Richard Callaghan in Fort Lauderdale

“I knew obviously that I wasn’t skating at the level that I know I can. I just felt like I really needed to change,” she says. “It was a hard decision, but I feel like I made the right one.”

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