Katarina Witt
Katarina Witt
Katarina Wittis a retired German figure skater. Witt won two Olympic gold medals for East Germany, first at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics and the second in 1988 at the Calgary Olympics. She is a four-time World championand twice World silver medalist. A feat only equalled by Sonja Henie among female skaters, Witt won six consecutive European Championships. Her competitive record makes her one of the most successful figure skaters of all time...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionFigure Skater
Date of Birth3 December 1965
CityBerlin, Germany
CountryGermany
He doesn't have any skeletons in his closet. He was young and naive.
Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.
Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.
I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
I was an athlete. And I proved I didn't win just because I was pretty. I was good, too.
Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.