Katarina Witt is a retired German figure skater who won two Olympic gold medals for East Germany, Sarajevo Olympic in 1984 and Calgary Olympics in 1988. She was also a four-time world champion and twice World silver medalist, and she also won six consecutive European Championships from 19783 to 1988.
Katarina Witt was born in December 1965 in East Berlin, Germany. Her nationality is German, and she is of German ethnicity. She is the daughter of Manfred Witt and Kathy Witt. She was born in a middle-class family as her father was a farmer and her mother worked in a hospital as a physiotherapist.
Having gone over 50 years of age, many people keep asking Katarina if she is married and who her husband is. Well, she has been in a good number of relationships. She has been linked with over ten men in the past, with some of the relations spanning more than a year while others ended less than a year after they began.
As a young woman, one of the first relationships that German found herself when was dating a German composer, musician, and music producer partner in 1984, Ingo Politz. The relationship went on much promise for four years before it ended abruptly.
Figure skater Katarina Witt and former boyfriend Marcus SOURCE: Getty Images After the end of her relationship, she was briefly linked to the former Italian alpine ski racer Alberto Tomba. She was also rumored to have something to do with the Canadian former skater Kurt Browning and Christian Schertz. Besides, she also had a short fling with Richard Dean Anderson.
Katarina Witt and her former boyfriend Richard Dean And SOURCE: Whosdatedwho Witt has not made an official statement about her relationship; it might be just a rumor. It seems she is doing her best job without harming others and has been a straight person in her life.
Talking about German skater Katarina Witt's Net worth, She has earned a massive amount of money in her entire skating career, estimated at $9 million. During her active career, she used to make about $1.5 annually from figure skating as a salary.
After her retirement, Witt appeared in several movies and was also a judge on Dancing on Ice. She reportedly earned thousands of dollars from her post-retirement career.
Well, regarding her real estate collection, it has been revealed on social media. But we can surely assume she owns millions of dollars of houses, cars, jewelry, and more.
Katarina began her skating career in the mid-1970s. During her early career days, she represented the SC Karl-Marx-Stadt club for East Germany (GDR). In 1979 she made her first appearance in a major international competition at European Championships, finishing 14th at the event.
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Katarina also placed 1st in the World Championships in 1981 in shorth, 2nd in the combined free skating, and 3rd in the long. She won her first Olympics gold medal for East Germany in 1984 in Sarajevo Olympics. Along with her streak of European Championship wins, she won four World Championships from 1984-to 1988, losing only to American Debi Thomas. In 1984, Witt was voted "GDR Female Athlete of the Year" by the readers of the East German newspaper.
Witt did not announce her retirement formally but stopped appearing in games in 1994. The same year, She was inducted into the World Figure skating Hall of Fame. Her farewell from the show skating tour took place in February and March 2008.
In 1996, Katarina won th Golden Plate Award at the American Academy of Achievement. The same year, She appeared in the television show Everybody Loves Raymond. She starred in a German-language film called Die Eisprinzessin - The Ice Princess. In 1998, Witts appeared on the cover of the December 1998 issue of Playboy magazine. It was the second ever sold-out issue of the magazine.
In 2006, Katarine was invited as an honored guest for the skating competition TV show Buzda Dans ("Dance on Ice") in Turkey. The following year, She was part of the reality show the German segment of Live Earth.
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