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Katarina Witt Biography

Katarina Witt is a retired German figure skater. 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 and two-time World silver medalist.

Katarina Witt Age

Witt was born on December 3, 1965, in Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Berlin, Germany. Her nationality is German and she is of German ethnicity. She is 53 years old as of 2019.

Katarina Witt Family

She is the daughter of Käthe Witt and Manfred Witt. Her mother worked in a hospital as a physiotherapist and her father was a farmer.

Katarina Witt Husband

She has succeeded in keeping her personal life private and out of the spotlight. According to the records, she is single.

Katarina was in a relationship when she was eighteen years with a twenty-five-years-old guy who was a drummer in a rock band. But the relationship could not last long. She has been in a rumored relationship with many celebrities like Ingo Politz, Alberto Tomba, Richard Dean Anderson, etc. But never confirmed the relationship.

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Witt attended the Karl-Marx-Stadt Sports Club and School. This was a school for children who were especially athletically talented. While attending this school, she not only took educational classes but she was also trained in figure skating by Jutta Muller.

Katarina Witt Career

Witt began her skating career in the mid-1990s. During her early career days, she represented the SC Karl-Marx-Stadt club for East Germany (GDR). She 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 skating. She won her first Olympic gold medal for East Germany at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics. Witt won her second gold in 1988 at the Calgary Olympics.  She is a four-time World champion (1984, 1985, 1987, and 1988) and a two-time World silver medalist (1982 and 1986).

She won six consecutive European Championships from 1983 to 1988. She is considered one of the most successful figure skaters of all time.

Katarina Witt Rumors And Controversy

Rumors are that Witt is dating Christian Schertz at the present time. She has not made any official statements about her relationship; it might be just a rumor. It seems she is doing the best job without harming others and has been a straight person in her life, for which she has not been in any controversy yet.

Katarina Witt Body Measurement

Witt has a height of 5 feet 5 inches. Her body weighs 55kg. She has dark brown hair and hazel eyes. Her waist size is 24 inches, hip size is 36 inches and bra size is 35c. Witt shoe size is 7.5 US and Dress size is 10 US.

Katarina Witt Publication

She published her first book; an autobiography titled My Years Between Compulsories and Freestyle in 1995. She later published another autobiography, Only With Passion in 2005.

Katarina Witt Award And Accomplishment

Witt was awarded the German Golden Camera Award in 1994.
She was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1995.
For her acting career, Katarina Witt won a Primetime Emmy in 1990 for her Outstanding Performance in a Classical Music/Dance Programming for Carmen on Ice.

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Dominik,thank you&your incredible dedicated team for your responsible work !

— Katarina Witt (@Katarina_Witt) June 20, 2019

A Woman’s Perspective on Trump

My fellow Bearing Drift contributors have posted on Trump’s latest tweets as viewed through the lenses of experience that have shaped their views. I appreciate all of them for the insight they bring to this and every other subject. I have read their posts and watched the various reactions to them.

I decided to add an additional perspective … looking at President Trump and his documented pattern of behavior as seen through the eyes of a woman and mother.

First of all, I want to state that I am not an extreme feminist, as that term is used today. I am just an average woman who has raised two children. I am old-fashioned in many ways. I was a stay at home mom because I could not fathom someone else raising my kids, but I was fortunate enough to be able to stay home with them.

I usually tend towards individual liberty, but also believe that men and women have different roles in society. Those roles have changed for many people (not always for the better) but I don’t judge how others live. I still believe in ladies and gentlemen.

I really wish Donald Trump was a gentleman.

The latest Twitter storm that came from POTUS was not unlike everything else he says when he remembers he has no conscience. But I think that is by design. It serves his purpose to have the nation focused on how disruptive he is, rather than what he may be doing at any given point. It only works because we allow it to.

While we may rightfully condemn his words, we have come to the point where we are no longer surprised and in some cases even tolerant of them. As a country, we have lowered our expectations to a point that other people, while few in actual numbers, are emboldened to act as Trump does without any forethought or conscience of their own. He is, after all, The President of the United States; the “face” of our nation.