Katarina Witt revealed how she handled her first relationship affair, as well as know about her other dating history
- Katarina Witt is a Double Olympic champion and now a retired German figure skater.
- She won the World Champion four times, European Champion 6 times, and National Champion-Emmy Award Winner eight times.
In 1990, she was ranked under the 50 Most Beautiful People by People magazine.
Professionally she is very successful while personally, her relationship was not as she expected.
Her first love was a German drummer in a rock band when she was 18 years of age and he was 25. They were attracted to each other and started dating.
She said in an interview,
“He was also quite a bit older than me – he was 25 and I was 18 – and the authorities believed he might affect my concentration. In that respect, they were probably right.”
Soon he was posted to some other city for the job and she recalled that time was very hard for her. It was a long-distance relationship and they could not contact much. Also, if they had to meet then it would take a 2-3 days journey.
She said,
“So when it was time for his national service, they stationed him as far away as they possibly could, so far that it was impossible for us to spend the weekend together. The journey would have taken him two or three days. At the time I was in floods of tears.”
Eventually and sadly, their relationship ended.
Katarina’s Family, Career
Katarina comes from a middle-class family. Both her parents were in a normal jobs. Her father was a farmer while her mother worked as a physiotherapist in a local hospital.
She was passionate about skating since her childhood days and hence she took training when she was 12 years old i.e., in the year 1977. She started focusing on her career after the end of her first relationship. In 1984 and 1988, she won two Olympic gold medals for her nation, Germany.
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After unsuccessful first love
Katarina’s first love was not a happy ending. After that, she got engaged in her skating career and once she became renowned, she was linked up with famous personalities.
In 1984, she dated Ingo Politz. He is a musician. But soon after four years of their relationship, the couple started having differences, and in 1988, they separated.
After Ingo, she was linked with Alberto Tomba, Richard Dean Anderson in 1992, Rolf Brendel in 1994, Danny Huston in 1995, and Marcus Herrmann in 1996, and with him also she ended the relationship in 2002.
Again in 2002, she started seeing Gregor Prächt, Dave Hoff (2002 – 2003) and Andreas Rüter (2008).
Katarina Enjoys flirting
However, the Olympic holder Katarina does not talk about her personal life much, she shared that she ‘enjoys flirting’. And when asked about her affair, she said,
“One shouldn’t always believe what newspaper writes. Does this mean that the entire link ups mentioned above are false?”
Short Bio on Katarina Witt
Katarina Witt is a retired German figure skater. She won two Olympic gold medals for East Germany, first at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics and the second in 1988 at the Calgary Olympics. Additionally, she is a four-time World champion and twice a World silver medalist. She won six consecutive European Championships from 1983 to 1988. More bio…
