2007 World Championships - Final Results

1) Miki Ando JPN 195.09 2 2
2) Mao Asada JPN 194.45 5 1
3) Yu-Na Kim KOR 186.14 1 4
4) Kimmie Meissner USA 180.23 4 3
5) Yukari Nakano JPN 168.92 7 6
6) Carolina Kostner ITA 168.92 3 9
7) Sarah Meier SUI 160.80 9 8
8) Susanna Poykio FIN 160.12 10 7
9) Emily Hughes USA 159.06 6 13
10) Joannie Rochette CAN 158.98 16 5
11) Valentina Marchei ITA 153.60 14 10
12) Julia Sebestyen HUN 153.50 8 15
13) Elena Sokolova RUS 149.77 11 14
14) Kiira Korpi FIN 149.47 17 11
15) Alissa Czisny USA 147.74 18 12
16) Arina Martinova RUS 145.28 12 16
17) Elene Gedevanishvili GEO 144.40 13 17
18) Elena Glebova EST 131.18 22 18
19) Anastasia Gimazetdinova UZB 130.44 15 20
20) Joanne Carter AUS 127.17 19 21
21) Idora Hegel CRO 125.66 24 19
22) Yan Liu CHN 123.22 21 23
23) Tamar Katz ISR 122.51 23 22
24) Mira Leung CAN 120.74 20 24

2007 World Championships - Short Program Results

1) Yu-Na Kim KOR 71.95
2) Miki Ando JPN 67.98
3) Carolina Kostner ITA 67.15
4) Kimmie Meissner USA 64.67
5) Mao Asada JPN 61.32
6) Emily Hughes USA 60.88
7) Yukari Nakano JPN 60.62
8) Julia Sebestyen HUN 59.98
9) Sarah Meier SUI 58.52
10) Susanna Poykio FIN 57.16
11) Elena Sokolova RUS 55.83
12) Arina Martinova RUS 54.69
13) Elene Gedevanishvili GEO 53.97
14) Valentina Marchei ITA 51.88
15) Anastasia Gimazetdinova UZB 49.99
16) Joannie Rochette CAN 49.85
17) Kiira Korpi FIN 49.63
18) Alissa Czisny USA 49.43
19) Joanne Carter AUS 48.46
20) Mira Leung CAN 47.05
21) Yan Liu CHN 46.59
22) Elena Glebova EST 46.10
23) Tamar Katz ISR 45.66
24) Idora Hegel CRO 44.91
25) Kathrin Freudelsperger AUT 42.24
26) Lina Johansson SWE 41.87
27) Tugba Karademir TUR 41.79
28) Irina Movchan UKR 40.76
29) Kristin Wieczorek GER 40.35
30) Roxana Luca ROU 39.65
31) Anna Jurkiewicz POL 36.39
32) Hristina Vassileva BUL 36.22
33) Radka Bartova SVK 36.17
34) Isabelle Pieman BEL 35.12
35) Ivana Hudziecova CZE 33.86
36) Teodora Postic SLO 33.77
37) Merovee Ephrem MON 33.01
38) Maria-Elena Papasotiriou GRE 32.90
39) Julia Teplih LAT 31.19
40) Charissa Tansomboon THA 30.46
41) Jocelyn Ho TPE 30.41
42) Ana Cecilia Cantu MEX 30.28
43) Ksenia Jastsenjski SRB 27.56
44) Ami Parekh IND 26.82
45) Kristine Y. Lee HKG 23.57

The ladies always seem to deliver, don’t they? This year's short program was no different with all of the top four women landing triple-triple combinations. Yu-Na Kim took the lead and, under the new system, scored the highest international marks for a ladies short program with a whopping 71.95. Miki Ando delivered the most technically challenging program of the evening (featuring a triple lutz-triple loop!) while Carolina Kostner continued her comeback from an injury to deliver a very strong performance as well.

Perhaps the biggest surprise of the evening was seeing Kimmie Meissner in 4th place after skating clean. I still think Kimmie’s actually in very good shape. She has three women ahead of her who have battled injuries this year and/or have reputations as less than consistent skaters. Kimmie herself is quite capable of pulling out a strong and clean free skate.

My pick to win, Mao Asada, singled the back end of her triple flip-triple loop combination. Mao’s in much more trouble than Kimmie. Her gorgeous short program was really her bread and butter all year and her less than fantastic long program will make it difficult to fill in the 10 point gap between her and Kim.

The long program will be performed in Tokyo on Saturday, March 24th starting at 5:30PM local time (that’s 1:30AM PST)

2007 World Championships - Final Predictions

1) Mao Asada
2) Kimmie Meissner
3) Yu-Na Kim

2007 World Championships – Skating Order

The skating order for Worlds is up. The short program will be split into two groups:

The Earlier Group starts in Tokyo at 9:15AM on Friday, March 23rd (5:15PM PST on Thursday, March 22nd)

The Later Group starts in Tokyo at 6:00PM on Friday, March 23rd (2:00AM PST on Friday, March 23rd)

Warm-Up Group 1
1) Ami Parekh IND
2) Julia Teplih LAT
3) Hristina Vassileva BUL
4) Ksenia Jastsenjski SRB
5) Kristin Wieczorek GER

Warm-Up Group 2
6) Ivana Hudziecova CZE
7) Merovee Ephrem MON
8) Roxana Luca ROU
9) Kristine Y. Lee HKG
10) Charissa Tansomboon THA

Warm-Up Group 3
11) Tamar Katz ISR
12) Lina Johansson SWE
13) Anastasia Gimazetdinova UZB
14) Teodora Postic SLO
15) Maria-Elena Papasotiriou GRE
16) Radka Bartova SVK

Warm-Up Group 4
17) Kathrin Freudelsperger AUT
18) Isabelle Pieman BEL
19) Ana Cecilia Cantu MEX
20) Anna Jurkiewicz POL
21) Irina Movchan UKR
22) Jocelyn Ho TPE

Warm-Up Group 5
23) Kiira Korpi FIN
24) Joanne Carter AUS
25) Yan Liu CHN
26) Mira Leung CAN
27) Valentina Marchei ITA

Warm-Up Group 6
28) Tugba Karademir TUR
29) Carolina Kostner ITA
30) Idora Hegel CRO
31) Elena Glebova EST
32) Elene Gedevanishvili GEO
33) Arina Martinova RUS

Warm-Up Group 7
34) Joannie Rochette CAN
35) Kimmie Meissner USA
36) Yu-Na Kim KOR
37) Julia Sebestyen HUN
38) Yukari Nakano JPN
39) Susanna Poykio FIN

Warm-Up Group 8
40) Sarah Meier SUI
41) Miki Ando JPN
42) Mao Asada JPN
43) Emily Hughes USA
44) Alissa Czisny USA
45) Elena Sokolova RUS

2007 World Junior Championships - Final Results

1) Caroline Zhang USA 169.25 1 1
2) Mirai Nagasu USA 163.84 2 2
3) Ashley Wagner USA 157.15 3 3
4) Jenni Vahamaa FIN 138.61 6 4
5) Rumi Suizu JPN 134.95 5 6
6) Elena Glebova EST 131.91 4 11
7) Laura Lepisto FIN 129.72 12 5
8) Yea-Ji Shin KOR 126.45 10 9
9) Nana Takeda JPN 126.43 15 7
10) Stefania Berton ITA 126.06 8 10
11) Satsuki Muramoto JPN 123.85 21 8
12) Alena Leonova RUS 122.89 9 13
13) Arina Martinova RUS 122.77 11 12
14) Sonia Lafuente ESP 116.43 13 14
15) Chae-Hwa Kim KOR 114.01 16 15
16) Julie Cagnon FRA 112.15 20 16
17) Victoria Muniz PUR 112.10 17 17
18) Myriane Samson CAN 111.04 7 19
19) Bettina Heim SUI 108.77 18 18
20) Ji Eun Choi KOR 105.90 14 20
21) Julia Sheremet BLR 98.00 22 22
22) Jennie Lee TPE 97.52 23 21
23) Kerstin Frank AUT 96.26 19 24
24) Brigitte Blickling GER 93.17 28 23
25) Katherine Hadford HUN 93.05 24 25
26) Ivana Reitmayerova SVK FNR 25
27) Vanessa James GBR FNR 26
28) Viktoria Helgesson SWE FNR 27
29) Nella Simaova CZE FNR 29
30) Charissa Tansomboon THA FNR 30
31) Tina Wang AUS FNR 31
32) Merovee Ephrem MON FNR 32
33) Morgan Figgins NZL FNR 33
34) Laura Czarnotta POL FNR 34
35) Loretta Hamui MEX FNR 35
36) Yalu Guo CHN FNR 36
37) Jenna Syken ISR FNR 37
38) Melissandre Fuentes AND FNR 38
39) Anastasia Listopad UKR FNR 39
40) Barbara Klerk BEL FNR 40
41) Teodora Vigu ROU FNR 41
42) Mirna Libric CRO FNR 42
43) Dasa Grm SLO FNR 43
44) Beatrice Rozinskaite LTU FNR 44
45) Sara Twete DEN FNR 45
46) Stasia Rage LAT FNR 46
47) Kristina Shlobina AZE FNR 47
48) Eva Lim NED FNR 48
49) Devora Radeva BUL FNR 49
50) Siobhan Mccoll RSA FNR 50
51) Ani Vardanyan ARM FNR 51
52) Sonja Mugosa SRB FNR 52

2007 World Junior Championships - Short Program Results

1) Caroline Zhang USA 59.17
2) Mirai Nagasu USA 57.22
3) Ashley Wagner USA 51.67
4) Elena Glebova EST 51.22
5) Rumi Suizu JPN 49.31
6) Jenni Vahamaa FIN 47.50
7) Myriane Samson CAN 45.78
8) Stefania Berton ITA 45.30
9) Alena Leonova RUS 45.15
10) Yea-Ji Shin KOR 44.56
11) Arina Martinova RUS 43.77
12) Laura Lepisto FIN 43.19
13) Sonia Lafuente ESP 42.39
14) Ji Eun Choi KOR 41.93
15) Nana Takeda JPN 41.76
16) Chae-Hwa Kim KOR 41.72
17) Victoria Muniz PUR 41.43
18) Bettina Heim SUI 40.34
19) Kerstin Frank AUT 40.30
20) Julie Cagnon FRA 40.22
21) Satsuki Muramoto JPN 39.70
22) Julia Sheremet BLR 39.33
23) Jennie Lee TPE 37.77
24) Katherine Hadford HUN 37.72
25) Ivana Reitmayerova SVK 37.41
26) Vanessa James GBR 37.35
27) Viktoria Helgesson SWE 36.42
28) Brigitte Blickling GER 36.34
29) Nella Simaova CZE 35.97
30) Charissa Tansomboon THA 35.88
31) Tina Wang AUS 35.77
32) Merovee Ephrem MON 35.43
33) Morgan Figgins NZL 34.69
34) Laura Czarnotta POL 34.26
35) Loretta Hamui MEX 34.05
36) Yalu Guo CHN 33.90
37) Jenna Syken ISR 32.61
38) Melissandre Fuentes AND 32.36
39) Anastasia Listopad UKR 31.96
40) Barbara Klerk BEL 31.47
41) Teodora Vigu ROU 30.97
42) Mirna Libric CRO 30.78
43) Dasa Grm SLO 30.49
44) Beatrice Rozinskaite LTU 30.42
45) Sara Twete DEN 30.38
46) Stasia Rage LAT 29.68
47) Kristina Shlobina AZE 29.44
48) Eva Lim NED 29.37
49) Devora Radeva BUL 27.20
50) Siobhan Mccoll RSA 23.31
51) Ani Vardanyan ARM 22.75
52) Sonja Mugosa SRB 22.43

Jr. Worlds - Final Predictions

1) Caroline Zhang USA
2) Ashley Wagner USA
3) Mirai Nagasu USA
4) Nana Takeda JPN

I really dislike predicting sweeps. In fact, this marks the first time I've ever officially or unofficially predicted American women to sweep the medals at any international event. Normally it seems incredibly short-sighted to single out your own country's competitors as unbeatable, but US women ruled the junior grand prix this season. Caroline Zhang, Ashley Wagner, and Juliana Cannarozzo all won two grand prix competitions each and then finished 1, 2 and 3 respectively at the final. The United States qualified five women to the final in all with Megan Oster finishing a solid 4th place behind her teammates. Yet Cannarozzo or Oster won't be joining Zhang and Wagner in Germany this week. Two months ago, fellow American Mirai Nagasu, who did not compete on the junior grand prix this season, left Spokane as the surprise US Jr. Champion, trumping silver medalist Zhang and bronze medalist Wagner, to earn a trip to Junior Worlds. I'm betting that Zhang will bounce back from her Nationals disappointment to earn her fourth gold medal of the season. Wagner's steady nerves should secure her the silver medal, and if Nagasu isn't too overwhlemed by expectations, she may win a medal at her first major international event.