Kimmie Meissner

Kimmie Meissner is an American former competitive figure skater, born in Towson, Maryland, in 1989. She won the 2006 World Championships, the 2007 Four Continents Championships and the 2007 U.S. national title, and she was the first American and the first woman to hold the World, Four Continents and national titles at the same time. In 2005 she became the second American woman to land the triple Axel in national competition, and at the 2006 Olympics she was the youngest American athlete and placed sixth. She was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2020 and by then worked in the medical field and coached young skaters in Maryland. She also served as spokesperson for the Cool Kids Campaign, a pediatric oncology charity.