Kimmie Meissner

Kimmie Meissner
nation	United States
birthday	4th October 1989
place of birth	Towson, Maryland, USA
size	160 cm
Weight	45 kg
Career
discipline	Single run
society	University of Delaware FSC
Trainer	Chris Conte, Todd Eldredge, Richard Callaghan, Pam Gregory
choreographer	Chris Conte, Lori Nichol, David Wilson, Nikolai Morosow
status	resigned
End of career	2009
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 0 × VKM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
World figure skating championships gold Calgary 2006 Ladies Four continents championships gold Colorado Springs 2007 Ladies
Personal best
Total points 189.87 World Cup 2006  Freestyle 129.70 World Cup 2006  Short program 64.67 World Cup 2007
Placements in the figure skating Grand Prix
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Grand Prix Final 0 0 0  Grand Prix competitions 1 2 1
last change: December 26, 2010

Kimberly Claire "Kimmie" Meissner (born October 4, 1989 in Towson , Maryland ) is a former US figure skater who started in a single run . She is the world champion of 2006 .

biography

Meissner is the youngest of four children of the married couple Judy and Paul Meissner. She is catholic. Meissner began figure skating at the age of six, animated by her three older brothers who played ice hockey . She trained most of the time at the University of Delaware figure skating club in Newark .

After she was first at the US championships in 2003 in the newcomers and first in the juniors in 2004, she finished third in her first participation in the senior class in 2005 . In 2006 she was national runner-up behind Sasha Cohen and qualified for the Olympic Games in Turin . This she finished in sixth place. A little later, she also played her first world championship in Calgary, Canada . She won the freestyle with seven established triple peaks, including two triple-triple combinations and thus also the gold medal at her first world championship. The last time the Ukrainian Oksana Bajul succeeded in doing this was at the 1993 World Cup .

In 2007 Meissner became the first US champion and won the Four Continents Championships in Colorado Springs . At the world championship , to which she traveled as the defending champion, she finished fourth. In 2008 she was seventh in her last World Cup for the time being . Then she toured with the ice revue Stars on Ice.

From 2003 to 2008 Meissner was trained by Pam Gregory , then she switched to Todd Eldredge and, on his recommendation, to his former trainer Richard Callaghan . Since autumn 2009 she has been supervised by Chris Conte , who also choreographs ice shows for her. Meissner was only the second American after Tonya Harding to regularly jump the triple Axel .

Kimmie Meissner with her trainer Pam Gregory, 2007

Results

Competition / season	2002/03	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08	2008/09
winter Olympics				6th
World championships				1.	4th	7th
Four continents championships					1.
Grand Prix Final						6th
Junior World Championships		2.	4th
American championships	1.N	1.J	3.	2.	1.	7th

• J = Juniors, N = Novice (German newcomers / youth)

Web links

Commons : Kimmie Meissner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kimmie Meissner in the database of the International Skating Union (English)
• Kimmie Meissner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )