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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From AP article:

The U.S. team is off to a rough start, and the world figure skating championships haven’t even begun.

Kimmie Meissner arrived just in time for her practice Monday, thanks to delayed flight. At least she got there.

Oh my! I’m glad she got in safely, though. I’m not too worried about the delays affecting her. Kimmie has a couple of days of practice and then the Short program on Wednesday.

Listen to it below!

The skating exhibition didn’t count, so Kimmie Meissner didn’t have to worry about turning in another mistake-filled program.

But it had to be unnerving for the 2006 world champion after the World Figure Skating Send-Off Exhibition at the University of Delaware’s Rust Ice Arena on Saturday, with the World Figure Skating Championships fewer than three weeks away.

Meissner fell once on a triple jump, then pulled out of another during her exhibition skate, which was done to the music of John Lennon’s “Imagine.”

Meissner fell on another triple at the end of the exhibition, when each skater came out for a final round of applause
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