Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos
Katarina Witt
Table of Contents
Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics
Images
Katarina Witt
Quizzes
Cricket bat and ball. cricket sport of cricket.Homepage blog 2011, arts and entertainment, history and society, sports and games athletics
Sports Quiz
Finnish skater Juulia Turkkila during the Ladies' singles at the World Figure Skating Championships, Megasport Arena on April 30, 2011 in Moscow, Russia. (ice skating, sports)
Figure Skating Quiz
Read Next
Men's Giant Slalom Italy's Alberto Tomba on the way to retaining his gold medal at Val d'Isere France 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics
The Origin of the Winter Olympics
Car with a pickle design in the Zagreb Red Bull Soapbox Race, Zagreb, Croatia, September 14, 2019. (games, races, sports)
10 Unusual Sports
Discover
Moonrise over Tucson, Arizona
Why Doesn’t Arizona Observe Daylight Saving Time?
airplane in flight (plane, aircraft, flying)
7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances
Bar graph of the United States Death Toll during major events. Infogram chart.
U.S. Death Toll During Major Events
Statue of Liberty in front of the skyline of Manhattan, New York City, New York.
Who Was the Woman Behind the Statue of Liberty?
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who formulated the Four Freedoms.
7 Alphabet Soup Agencies that Stuck Around
Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
12 Greek Gods and Goddesses
World Data Locator Map: Australia
Is Australia an Island?

Katarina Witt: Facts & Related Content

verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/facts/Katarina-Witt
Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born December 3, 1965 (age 59) • Chemnitz • East Germany
Awards And Honors Winter Olympic Games

Photos

Katarina Witt
See All Images →
Speed skater and cyclist Christa Luding-Rothenburger
Christa Luding-Rothenburger
East German speed skater and cyclist
Yekaterina Gordeeva
Russian figure skater
Jayne Torvill
English figure skater
Christopher Dean
English figure skater
Brian Boitano
American figure skater
Scott Hamilton
Scott Hamilton
American figure skater
Karin Enke
German skater
Andrée Brunet
French figure skater
Lyudmila Belousova
Russian figure skater
Pierre Brunet
French figure skater
Oleg Protopopov
Russian figure skater
Chan, Patrick
Patrick Chan
Canadian figure skater
Tara Lipinski
Tara Lipinski
American figure skater
Peggy Fleming
American figure skater
Tenley Albright
American figure skater
Sonja Henie
Sonja Henie
American athlete
Dick Button
Dick Button
American figure skater
Gillis Grafström
Swedish figure skater
Karl Schäfer
Austrian figure skater
Irina Rodnina and Aleksandr Zaytsev
Irina Rodnina
Soviet figure skater

Related Quizzes and Features

Quiz
Finnish skater Juulia Turkkila during the Ladies' singles at the World Figure Skating Championships, Megasport Arena on April 30, 2011 in Moscow, Russia. (ice skating, sports)
Figure Skating Quiz
Cricket bat and ball. cricket sport of cricket.Homepage blog 2011, arts and entertainment, history and society, sports and games athletics
Sports Quiz