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Katarina Witt Biography

Katarina Witt is one of the most popular and richest Figure Skater who was born on December 3, 1965 in Falkensee, Brandenburg, Germany. Model and figure skater born in East Berlin who was awarded gold medals at the 1984 Sarajevo and 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.

She appeared acting as herself in the hit film of 1996 Jerry Maguire which was co-produced with She had a cameo, playing herself, in the 1996 hit movie Jerry Maguire, co-produced by James L. Brooks..

Witt represented the SC Karl-Marx-Stadt club for East Germany (GDR). Jutta Müller began coaching her in 1977. Witt trained 6 days a week, sometimes for 7 hours a day with 3 hours spent on compulsory figures.

Witt made her first appearance in a major international competition at the 1979 European Championships, finishing 14th at the event. At the 1981 World Championships, she placed 1st in the short, 3rd in the long, and 2nd in the combined free skate, missing a medal due to low placement in figures. She placed on a major podium for the first time in 1982, winning silver at both the European and World Championships. She had a great shot at winning the 1982 World Championships, which she only required winning the long program to do. However, she stepped out of three jumps, including the legendary triple flip, the complex element she was the very first woman to accomplish, and a relatively easy double axel, which cost her the long program win and the overall gold medal. The eventual winner of the competition was Elaine Zayak, who landed six triples. The next season, she won her first European title but finished off the World podium in fourth place, because she was 8th in compulsory figures despite winning the combined free skating. Had she placed 1st in the long program instead of 2nd (on a 5-4 split) to Sumners, she would have jumped to the silver over both Leistner and Vodorezova. Her free skate with a triple flip and five triples was technically superior to Sumners’, and many believed she should have taken the crucial 1st place in this phase.

Parents have been Manfred as well as Katja and she was raised with a brother named Axel.

Name	Katarina Witt
First Name	Katarina
Last Name	Witt
Occupation	Figure Skater
Birthday	December 3
Birth Year	1965
Place of Birth	Falkensee
Home Town	Brandenburg
Birth Country	Germany
Birth Sign	Sagittarius
Full/Birth Name
Parents	Manfred Witt, Käthe Witt
Siblings	Axel Witt
Spouse	Not Known
Children(s)	Not Available

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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In 1984, Witt was voted “GDR female athlete of the year” by the readers of the East German newspaper Junge Welt. She won the 1984 Olympic title in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, with reigning World champion Rosalynn Sumners of the United States in second. Witt and Sumners held the top two spots heading into the Olympic free skate, which was worth fifty percent of the total score. Witt landed three triple jumps in her free skate program, and the judges left room for Sumners to win the event. Sumners scaled back two of her jumps and Witt won the long program by one-tenth of a point on one judge’s scorecard. Witt won the gold medal at age of 18 years and 77 days, became one of the youngest figure skating Olympic champions. Witt then went on to win her first World title in dominant fashion (without Sumners) winning all three phases of the competition. She said then she planned to continue a while longer but did not see herself likely making it to the 1988 Calgary Olympics.

Katarina Witt Net Worth

Katarina Witt is one of the richest Figure Skater from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Katarina Witt's net worth $9 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She attended Kinder-und Jugendsportschule, a school that caters to the athletes who are gifted.

She was chosen as a judge for the popular British television program Dancing On Ice.

Katarina Witt (German pronunciation: [ˈkataʁiːna vɪt] ; born 3 December 1965) is a retired German figure skater.

Net Worth	$9 Million
Salary	Under Review
Source of Income	Figure Skater
Cars	Not Available
House	Living in own house.

Witt won two Olympic gold medals for East Germany, first at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics and the second at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. She is a four-time World Champion (1984, 1985, 1987, 1988) and two-time World silver medalist (1982, 1986). Witt won six consecutive European Championships (1983–1988), a feat only equalled by Sonja Henie among female skaters. Between 1984 and 1988, Witt won ten golds from eleven major international events: two Olympics, four out of five World championships, and six European championships. Her competitive record makes her one of the most successful figure skaters of all time.

Witt successfully defended her World title in 1985. Here, she was solid and clean in all three phases, placing 3rd to her two main competitors, Kira Ivanova and Tiffany Chin, in the compulsory figures, convincingly winning the short program even over the clean skates of Ivanova and Chin. In the long program, she was put under pressure by Ivanova who made a strong bid for the gold with a clean three-triple long program including a difficult triple loop, but Witt trumped her with a four triple long program which highlighted much better artistry than Ivanova, to overtake her by six judges to three in the long program and overall. The judges left room for Chin to win the long program and event, but unfortunately she fell on a double axel and did not complete a triple salchow in her performance, settling for the bronze medal. Witt’s long standing dominance of the sport was finally punctured when in an upset she placed second to American Debi Thomas, the new United States Champion, the following year. At those Worlds, she did win the long program over Thomas’s clean skate with identical content, scoring two 6.0s for artistic impression, but a combination miss which left her 4th in the short cost her the gold. This was also the first time since 1980 she would lose the short program phase at a World Championships. To win, she would have needed the final skater, Chin, to place between her and Debi in the long program, which did not occur. She had been considering making the 1986 World Championships her final event, but stung by the loss, Witt vowed to regain her title and skate on to Calgary.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Katarina Witt height 5 ft 5 im Katarina weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Height	5 ft 5 im
Weight	Not Known
Body Measurements	Under Review
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Witt’s taste in figure-skating costumes sometimes caused debate. At the 1983 European Championships, she skated her Mozart short program in knee breeches instead of a skirt. Her blue, skirtless feather-trimmed 1988 costume for a showgirl-themed short program was considered too theatrical and sexy, and led to a change in the ISU regulations dubbed the “Katarina rule” which required female skaters to wear more modest clothing; skirts were required to cover the buttocks and crotch. In 1994, skating a Robin Hood-themed program, she again pushed the boundaries of costume regulations by wearing a short tunic over leggings.

In 1988, Witt started a professional career – rare for East German athletes. She spent three years on tour in the United States with Brian Boitano, also an Olympic champion. Their show, “Witt and Boitano Skating”, was so successful that for the first time in ten years, New York’s Madison Square Garden was sold out for an ice show. Later, she continued at Holiday on Ice in the United States and in western Europe. She also became an actress in the film Carmen on Ice (1989), which expanded upon her gold-medal free program in Calgary. In 1990, she received an Emmy Award for her role in this film. As a professional she was never as successful competitively as an amateur, often placing last of four or five women in her appearances at the two biggest professional championships (Challenge of Champions and World Professional Championships in Landover), but continued to receive great acclaim as an entertainer and show skater.

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In 1987, Witt won her third World title. Although Witt finished fifth in compulsory figures, which meant that Thomas could finish second in both the short and long programs and still retain the World title, Thomas’ 7th place in the short program (due to a small hand down on her double axel) put the two skaters on a level playing field ahead of the free skate. In fact, five skaters entered the long program in strong contention for the gold: Kira Ivanova, Witt, Thomas, Elizabeth Manley, and Caryn Kadavy, all needing to only win the long program (or win the long program and beat Ivanova by two places in the long program in the case of Manley and Kadavy) to win. Skating last and under immense pressure with both Kadavy and Thomas having earlier turned in brilliant performances, Witt landed five triple jumps, including a clean triple loop jump which was most crucial of all to win. Earlier, Thomas had two footed her triple-loop attempt, and while Kadavy had done two successful triple loops, she had also popped several triple or double-axel attempts. Even on a night of brilliant skating by a majority of the notable competitors, Witt convincingly both the best technical and artistic marks of the night, was ranked first by seven of the nine judges, and reclaimed her World title to an appreciative crowd.

Top Facts about Katarina Witt

Katarina Witt is a retired German figure skater.
She won two Olympic gold medals in 1984 and 1988.
Witt also won four World Championships and six European Championships.
She was known for her artistic and athletic abilities on the ice.
Witt was born on December 3, 1965, in Staaken, East Germany.
She became a professional skater after retiring from competition.
Witt has appeared in several films and TV shows as an actress.
In 1994, she posed nude for Playboy magazine’s German edition.
Witt served as an ambassador for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
She is considered one of the greatest figure skaters of all time.

Facts & Trivia

Katarina Ranked on the list of most popular Figure Skater. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Katarina Witt celebrates birthday on December 3 of every year.

Witt won a fourth and final World title to end her amateur career at the 1988 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. She turned in a relatively lackluster long program, popping out of both a planned triple loop and triple salchow, and below the quality of her Olympic performance, but with other top contenders also being mostly subpar and fatigued after the high of the Calgary Games, she won gold with a victory in compulsory figures (just second win in figures in a World or Olympic event, only other instance was 1984 Worlds), 2nd place to Debi Thomas in the short program, and victory in the long program. One of her rivals, silver medalist Elizabeth Manley, later complained about some of what she perceived to be dubious foul play in the event, including Witt’s win in the figures where she overcame Manley’s lead in the first two figures in the final loop figure, which Manley believed to be her best, and Manley’s music not being played properly to start her short program (where Manley had a combination miss and took only 4th place, ending her gold medal chances). On the November 1, 1988 in honor of her victory at the Olympics a block of stamps was released in the DPRK.

Where is Katarina Witt now 2021?

She owns a gym. Witt owns a boutique gym called Kurvenstar by Katarina Witt, which is located in Potsdam, Germany. She often posts about the gym and the events it holds on her Instagram account.

What has happened to Katarina Witt?

Since 1991 Katarina has been working as figure skating expert for American and German TV channels such as NBC, CBS, ABC, ZDF and ARD during World Championships and Olympic Games. In between Katarina recurrently dives into the world of film and theater.

How old is Katarina Witt now?

56 years (December 3, 1965)

How many gold medals did Katarina Witt win?

East German figure skater Katarina Witt dazzled audiences with her beauty and charisma en route to four World Championships and two Olympic gold medals.

How many times has Katarina Witt been married?

She was in a serious relationship with businessman Marcus Hermann, also from his country. The next three men she dated are Dave Hoffis (from 2002 to 2003), Siegfried Wolf (2004) and Andreas Rüter (2008). Just as she has yet to get married, Katarina Witt has no children yet.

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