Interview with Katarina Witt – Stalking, Hollywood und zu viele Pfunde (German)". Tagesspiegel. 23 January 2013. I used to watch other people skating. And even though, it was dark, damp and cold I think maybe I fell in love with it because of the speed." Ashley Massaro found herself in the WWE after she won the WWE Diva Search in 2005. That said, she was not particularly successful in the world of professional wrestling. She graced the covers of Playboy magazine in November 1998, shortly after placing fourth at the 1998 Winter Olympics. 3. Amanda Beard Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.

In 1998, Witt appeared in the film Ronin in a small supporting role with several lines of dialogue. Around this time, she also played a villain in an episode of the tongue-in-cheek television series, V.I.P. In November 2005, Witt published a novel, Only with Passion, in which she offers advice to a fictional young skater based on her many years of skating. Since October 2006, she has had her own TV show, Stars auf Eis ("Stars on Ice"), on German channel ProSieben. She was invited to Istanbul as an honoured guest for the skating competition TV show called Buzda Dans ("Dance on Ice") on 25 February 2007. On 3 December 2011, Witt was confirmed as a judge on the UK TV show Dancing on Ice, where she made her first appearance on 8 January 2012. [11]

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The third appearance in Lillehammer (1994) I knew I had no chance of winning a medal at 28 (she finished seventh) but it was probably the best moment of my life as my parents were there to see it. They had not been allowed to leave the country to see my previous appearances." Witt successfully defended her World title in 1985. Here, she was solid and clean in all three phases, placing 3rd to her two main competitors, Kira Ivanova and Tiffany Chin, in the compulsory figures, convincingly winning the short program even over the clean skates of Ivanova and Chin. In the long program, she was put under pressure by Ivanova who made a strong bid for the gold with a clean three-triple long program including a difficult triple loop, but Witt trumped her with a four-triple long program, highlighting her superior artistry to Ivanova's and overtaking her by six judges to three in the long program as well as overall. The judges left room for Chin to win the long program and event, but unfortunately she fell on a double axel and did not complete a triple salchow in her performance, settling for the bronze medal. Witt's longstanding gold-medal dominance of the sport was finally disrupted when in an upset she placed second to American Debi Thomas, the new United States Champion, the following year. At those Worlds, she did win the long program over Thomas's clean skate with identical content, scoring two 6.0s for artistic impression, but a combination miss which left her 4th in the short cost her the gold. This was also the first time since 1980 she would lose the short program phase at a World Championship. To win, she would have needed the final skater, Chin, to place between her and Thomas in the long program, but this did not occur. She had been considering making the 1986 World Championships her final event, but stung by the loss, Witt vowed to regain her title and skate on to Calgary.

It also spiked a lot of feuds amongst other female wrestlers, while Torrie enjoyed the attention she got on her Playboy cover. In March 2004, Torrie was featured on the Playboy cover once again with her no. 1 rival Sable. INTERVIEW-Olympics-Witt hopes to steer 2018 Games to Munich". Reuters. 23 September 2010 . Retrieved 8 May 2018. Kati Witt has always been known for her beauty and sex appeal as well as for her athleticism. Time magazine called her “the most beautiful face of socialism”. Kati's taste in figure skating costumes sometimes raised eyebrows. At the 1983 European championships she skated her Mozart short program in knee breeches instead of a skirt. Her blue skirtless feather-trimmed 1988 costume for a showgirl-themed short program was considered too theatrical and sexy, and led to a change in the ISU regulations which required female skaters to wear more modest clothing including skirts. In 1994, skating a Robin Hood-themed program, she again pushed the boundaries of the costume regulations by wearing not a skirt but a short tunic over leggings. She starred in a German-language film called Die Eisprinzessin - The Ice Princess, providing the vocals for the theme song, "Skate with Me". In 1994, Witt published her autobiography Meine Jahre zwischen Pflicht und Kür ( My Years between Compulsories and Freestyle). In 1995, Witt was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame. Her farewell from show skating tour took place in February and March 2008.The no. 1 of this Top 10 list follows a four-in-one pattern. Romy, Nicole, Katharina and Petra are the four German Olympic athletes who posed nude in the September 2008 German Playboy. They appeared on different amazing covers. Berkow, Ira (20 April 1994). "AT DINNER WITH: Katarina Witt; Firepower Off the Ice". The New York Times . Retrieved 31 October 2021. PARIS - No chair of an Olympic bid has probably ever been compared to Hollywood goddess Marilyn Monroe but ice skating legend Katarina Witt justifies that tag.

It was a kind of nice contrast to the image of an Ice Queen where the clothes and the make-up all look perfect. Nothing was to be provocative and they were very pure photographs. It wasn't controversial. Both Witt and Thomas were favoured contenders at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Their rivalry was known as the " Battle of the Carmens", as each woman had independently elected to skate her long program to music from Bizet's opera Carmen. They held the top two spots after the compulsory figures and the short program. Witt was third in the compulsories, behind Ivanova and Thomas, before winning the short program with Thomas second. In her long program, Witt landed four triple jumps and downgraded her planned triple-loop jump to a double loop. This left room for Thomas to win the long program, but Thomas missed three of her five planned triple jumps. Canadian skater Elizabeth Manley won the long program convincingly over Witt (seven judges to two), however Witt retained her Olympic title based on her overall scores (she had finished ahead of Manley in both the compulsory figures and the short program). Witt became only the second woman in figure skating history (after Sonja Henie) to defend her Olympic title successfully. Had Manley not narrowly lost second place to Thomas in the short program (by one judge), or Witt not narrowly held onto second place over Ito in the long program (on a 6–3 split), Manley would have defeated Witt for the overall gold medal. To honour Witt and her win in Calgary, North Korea issued miniature sheets with three large pictures of Witt on the ice. [4] Time magazine called her "the most beautiful face of socialism." [3] As she readily admits all is not what it might seem when it comes to film as she discovered in the 1998 thriller Ronin directed by the esteemed John Frankenheimer and starring Oscar winning actor Robert de Niro and French great Jean Reno. a b c d McBride, Lorraine (25 March 2012). "Dancing on Ice judge Katarina Wit talks money". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 14 November 2012. Her spirit was unbreakable, and so was her strength. She wasn’t only willing to take on women in the ring but also men who were double her size. She had this courageous and fearless stance since day one.Talking to the Telegraph, Katarina explained her motives for doing the photo-shoot. "It was the right moment," says Witt. "Some girls did Playboy to enhance their career but at this point I was at my peak. I was the most successful figure skater in the world, touring more than 60 cities in America and travelling by private jet." Using that success to her advantage, she agreed to the shoot on the grounds that she had creative control over the arrangements, adding, "I was filming the movie Ronin with Robert De Niro. It was an incredible year and when the Playboy offer came in I thought, why not? For 10 years I turned it down but they gave me all the rights for choosing the photographer, location and how the pictures looked." The end result was a magazine that sold out for the first time since Marilyn Monroe in 1953. She is also the founder and lead singer of the self-titled band, HEMME. She has also appeared in a variety of documentaries and movies. The most recent example is her role as a Zombie in a horror movie called Bubba’s Chili Parlor. 25 Beautiful Female Athletes Who Posed For Playboy – In Conclusion It is really hard to be an elite athlete and feminine at the same time. Well, Gabby’s stunning look conveys both attractiveness and athleticism. She accepted to pose nude for Playboy in 2001. 1. Romy Tarangul, Nicole Reinhardt, Katharina Scholz, Petra Niemann As mentioned before, Katarina’s nude pictorial was the second ever sold-out issue of Playboy. 8. Anita Marks In 1988, Witt won her sixth consecutive European Championship, equaling the achievement of Sonja Henie as the most-successful skater in ladies' singles at the European Championships. Both Witt's and Henie's number of European titles have since been surpassed by Irina Slutskaya, but Witt retains the record for most consecutive European titles, sharing it with Henie.

She has also turned her hand to writing books - including a novel which has a familiar theme to her life in the central character being a talented young ice skater. Witt made her first appearance in a major international competition at the 1979 European Championships, finishing 14th at the event. At the 1981 World Championships, she placed 1st in the short, 3rd in the long, and 2nd in the combined free skate, missing a medal due to low placement in figures. She placed on a major podium for the first time in 1982, winning silver at both the European and World Championships. She had a great shot at winning the 1982 World Championships, which she only required winning the long program to do. However, she stepped out of three jumps, including the legendary triple flip, the complex element she was the very first woman to accomplish, and a relatively easy double axel, which cost her the long program win and the overall gold medal. The eventual winner of the competition was Elaine Zayak, who landed six triples. The next season, she won her first European title but finished off the World podium in fourth place, because she was 8th in compulsory figures despite winning the combined free skating. Had she placed 1st in the long program instead of 2nd (on a 5–4 split) to Sumners, she would have jumped to the silver over both Leistner and Vodorezova. Her free skate with a triple flip and five triples was technically superior to Sumners', and many believed she should have taken the crucial 1st place in this phase.All three of my Olympic appearances are special. The first (Sarajevo) because it was my first gold medal, the second (Calgary) because I wanted to be the greatest skater of the modern age in emulating Sonja Henie's achievement in retaining the title. She also has educational merits. Mainly, in 2017 she graduated from Johnson & Wales University with a degree in Sports Entertainment and Event Management.