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Katarina Witt: Gold Medals
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Katarina Witt is an athlete, an artist, an actress, a television personality and a business woman. In the course of her career, she's won more titles than anyone else before her, including two Olympic gold medals. She is currently touring with Target Stars on Ice along with Kurt Browning, Kristi Yamaguchi, Ilja Kulik and Tara Lipinski.
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German figure skater Katarina Witt won two Olympic gold medals and four world championships and became one of the most popular and acclaimed skaters in the world. In 1988 she collaborated with American figure skater Brian Boitano on several world tours. In 1990 the duo’s routine, “Carmen on Ice” (based on French composer Georges Bizet’s opera), won an Emmy Award.
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On Tuesday, February 11 at 11:00 PM Tilley will be joined by two-time Olympic Gold medalist and four-time World Figure Skating Champion, Katarina Witt. During this exclusive interview Witt will discuss her career, including her rise to fame as the most successful figure skater of all time. Witt will ... speak about her latest undertaking, the "Stars on Ice" tour which will be coming to Philadelphia's First Union Center Friday, February 21st.
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It was in 1984 that Witt truly exploded onto the world's stage. At the ripe old age of 18, she won her first of four world championship titles. But she truly reached the pinnacle by dazzling the judges at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, edging American Rosalynn Sumners for the gold medal.
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