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Katarina Witt (German pronunciation: [ˈkataʁiːna vɪt], audio ⓘ; born 3 December 1965) is a German former figure skater. A two-time Olympic champion, Witt is regarded as one of the greatest ladies' singles figure skaters of all time. [ 1 ]
Seyfert was the only child of Wolfgang Seyfert and the former ice dancer and world famous coach, among them Katarina Witt, Jutta Müller. She married ice dancer Eberhard Rüger in 1972 and they had a daughter in 1974. She then married Jochen Messerschmidt. In 2011, she married Egbert Körner. [3] [4]
In January 1988, she reclaimed the U.S. national title. At the 1988 Winter Olympics held in Calgary, she and Katarina Witt engaged in a rivalry that the media dubbed the "Battle of the Carmens", as both women skated their long programs to the music of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen. [10]
While the characters in the book weren’t based on people in Fargo’s life, they were “composites of famous skaters.” “Kat is very much based on Katarina Witt, the German skater who I grew ...
She recalls Katarina Witt performing a free skate to “Carmen” in an iconic red costume. At … How Carolyn Taylor’s Teen Dreams of Olympic Skating — and Katarina Witt — Resulted in New ...
How Carolyn Taylor's Teen Dreams of Olympic Skating - and Katarina Witt - Resulted in New Crave Comedy 'I Have Nothing' ... which saved his life in 1968 when he was a 19-year-old druggie and ...
Sonja Henie (8 April 1912 – 12 October 1969) was a Norwegian figure skater and film star. She was a three-time Olympic champion (1928, 1932, 1936) in women's singles, a ten-time World champion (1927–1936) and a six-time European champion (1931–1936).
Alberto Tomba (born 19 December 1966) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Italy. He was the dominant technical skier (slalom and giant slalom) in the late 1980s and 1990s.