GOTEBORG, Sweden — Mao Asada of Japan won the women's title at the World Figure Skating Championships today, overcoming a big fall going into a planned triple axel.

Italy's Carolina Kostner won the silver, despite putting her hands down twice on jumps. South Korea's Kim Yu-na, who missed a competition last month because of a hip injury, took the bronze.

All three American skaters fell at least once, and their stumbles will cost the United States at next year's world championships. Former world champion Kimmie Meissner was seventh, Bebe Liang was 10th and Ashley Wagner was 16th.