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Katarina Witt

1965 - Today

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Katarina Witt (German pronunciation: [ˈkataʁiːna vɪt], ; born 3 December 1965) is a German former figure skater. A two-time Olympic champion, Witt is regarded as one of the greatest ladies' singles figure skaters of all time. Her Laureus profile states that "she is remembered most for her overall athleticism, her charismatic appeal and her glamorous image on the ice." Witt won the first of her two Olympic gold medals for East Germany at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics, before winning a second at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Katarina Witt has received more than 2,465,537 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Katarina Witt is the 8th most popular skater (down from 5th in 2019), the 2,224th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,765th in 2019) and the most popular German Skater.

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  • 61.95

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  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Katarina Witt ranks 8 out of 483. Before her are Adelina Sotnikova, Oleg Protopopov, Ulrich Salchow, Axel Paulsen, Tonya Harding, and Clas Thunberg. After her are Gillis Grafström, Ondrej Nepela, Ivar Ballangrud, Ludmila Belousova, Karl Schäfer, and Hjalmar Andersen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Katarina Witt ranks 64. Before her are Sam Mendes, Frank Grillo, Linda Evangelista, Zakir Naik, KRS-One, and Valeria Golino. After her are Yahya Jammeh, Satoshi Tajiri, Darko Pančev, Haddaway, Scottie Pippen, and Martin Lawrence.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Katarina Witt ranks 2,224 out of 7,253. Before her are Fritz Pfeffer (1889), Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1630), Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria (1813), William, Duke of Brunswick (1806), Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918), and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794). After her are Lilly Reich (1885), Hans Loritz (1895), Willi Münzenberg (1889), C. W. Ceram (1915), Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz (1573), and Mathias Rust (1968).

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Among SKATERS In Germany

Among skaters born in Germany, Katarina Witt ranks 1. After her are Ludowika Jakobsson (1884), Ernst Baier (1905), Heinrich Burger (1881), Anna Hübler (1885), Maxi Herber (1920), Gabriele Seyfert (1948), Marika Kilius (1943), Ria Baran (1922), Christa Luding-Rothenburger (1959), Hans-Jürgen Bäumler (1942), and Manfred Schnelldorfer (1943).

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