Katarina Witt is a retired skater who was born on 3 December 1965 in East Germany, in Staaken which is now part of Berlin.
Her mom worked as a physiotherapist at a hospital, whereas her father was a farmer. She studied at Karl-Marx-Stadt High School in her childhood days.
She attended the Kinder- und Jugendsportschule, a special school for kids with athletic abilities. Witt made her first appearance in a big global competition at the 1979 European Championships.
The readership of the East German newspaper Junge Welt awarded her “GDR Female Athlete of the Year” in 1984. . Witt won the Olympic title in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
