As of 2019, who is the youngest female to win a World Figure Skating title?

Tara Kristen Lipinski (born June 10, 1982) is an American former competitive figure skater, actor, and sports commentator. A former competitor in ladies' singles, she is the 1998 Olympic champion, the 1997 World champion, a two-time Champions Series Final champion (1997–1998), and the 1997 U.S. national champion. She is the youngest ever to win a World Figure Skating title, having done so at the age of 14 years, 9 months and 10 days.

In February 1997, at the age of 14, with her signature triple loop-triple loop combination, Lipinski became the youngest skater to win a U.S. Nationals title. Skating last, Lipinski had to come in first in the free skate, which she did by skating a clean program, with seven triple jumps, including "a history-making triple loop-triple-loop combination", which had never been completed by a female skater during competition.

A month later, Lipinski came in first place at the 1997 World Figure Skating Championships and became the youngest female skater to win at Worlds. She was a month younger than the previous record holder, Sonya Henie from Norway, when Henie won the first of 10 World Championships in 1927. Lipinski completed seven triple jumps, as she had done at the U.S. Nationals and the Champion Series final and came in first place after the short program.