Katarina Witt (GDR) - 1980 Worlds, Ladies' Long Program
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- Dortmund, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY - 1980 World Figure Skating Championships, Ladies' Long Program - Katarina Witt of East Germany placed 7th in the Long Program to move up from 14th to 10th Place overall in her Worlds debut.
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Liebe Kati, Du warst, bist und bleibst die Beste aller Zeiten. Deine Eleganz und Ausstrahlung hat keine wie Du. 🙏👍
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in my opinion, maybe this wasn't her best performance but even then it shows what kind of "diamond" her coach have. it shows also the capability of katarina. it's waste of time to wonder - i respect every others opinion - what she should or shouldn't do. no one can win his/her every competition. but this also even then shows that she was more than one way ahead of her time, not to mention other competitors. she already then smile, was classy and stylish. her smile never disappeared, if i correctly remembered. i have seen more videos than this one. she was and - in my opinion - still is the queen of ice. no one else have not her personal charm. thank you, 3Axel1996 for posting this.
she was the best for ever
Dawn of a Blazing Star!
Durch diesen Auftritt, den ich in einer französischen Kneipe live gesehen habe, lernte ich als von Westmedien beeinflusster, sportbegeisterter 15-jähriger, dass in der DDR auch Menschen leben, auf die ich sogar stolz sein darf: Später war ich dann zweimal mit ukrainischen Frauen verheiratet, mit denen ich heute noch befreundet bin. Danke für die Blicköffnung, Katarina..! 🙂
Precious.
Yes!
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Katharina's good looks were there 42 years ago.
Foundation....................
xoxo
Wow, even the 2x Olympic Champion does the Flutz
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I guess the standing around and posing and being flirtatious and overly dramatic came a bit later in her career.
Do you spend all day making sour negative comments? She has done much more with her life...
Wie toxisch dein Kommentar .
Sie ist ein wunderbarer Mensch .
Da können sich viele ein Beispiel nehmen .
Danke Katharina ❤ lg Steffi aus der DDR 😅
This woman couldn't even qualify in today's competition.
And at the time of this competition Peggy Fleming wouldn’t have qualified. That’s what happens from generation to generation 🙄
@@victoriagill3337 You should tell that to all those people who think that Witt is the greatest ever.
@@toms9864 well she is still the only woman alive to have won back to back Olympic golds so that does make her one of the greatest ever. There are Americans who think Peggy Fleming is the greatest ever…..
Different eras, but most of all, different requirements.
Such an idiotic comparison
What? Boring? Horrible costum? This were in1980 and she was only 14 years old!!! She was brilliant for such a young skater and she skated more tripples than the ladies on the podium!
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Класс!!!!!
Мелодии из х/ф "Мери Поппинс "!!!!!!❤
That's very big, talent, simply inimitable.
I completely agree
Now I want to know how tall she is 🤔
1,65 m
Amazing how much her technical content dropped year after year. Hardly ever saw anything harder than a triple toe after 1983.
+officeaddict33 Considering the non-optimal-for-skating body shape she had once she got older, she must've had incredible strength to land any triples at all. That being said, I have a vague recollection that she managed to land the triple flip in competition as late as 1987, and a triple loop (albeit with a hand down) at the 1994 Olympics.
+sysjkb - I hear you but it wasn't just the jumps. She was sharper, quicker, more aggressive in her early days. And she made an attempt to be athletic rather than relying on posing and flirting with the audience. Her later programs were slow and had way too much stopping. She may have landed an occasional triple flip but by the mid 80's women were landing triple Lutzes.
+officeaddict33 Yeah, she did kind of overdo the posing. Not as bad as Oksana, by any means, but that's a low bar!
From what I've seen, with a handful of exceptions, very few women were landing triple Lutzes until the end of figures. Post-Denise Biellmann, I believe no World's/Olympic medalist had a triple Lutz in her program, let alone landed one, until Elizabeth Manley in 1988. A handful of Lutz-capable familiar names were starting to bubble up in the standings by the end of Witt's career - Ito, Harding, Yamaguchi - but they were generally pretty distant from the medal winners. Consider 1990 - now, granted, that was a completely crazy year, but Holly Cook managed 4th in the long program, and a bronze medal, with IIRC only two triple jumps *total* - a salchow and a toe loop.
Katarina Witt was in her jumping prime prior to the 1984 Winter Olympics, when she still had a relatively undeveloped figure. For a female figure skater, she did grow relatively tall and also developed a magnificent pair of breasts - at the 1988 Winter Olympics, she clearly won the 'biggest bosom' competition among all the female figure skaters! Hard training and determination were what enabled her to win medals in her later amateur career, not to mention the less than subjective judging in figure skating.
Oksana spent most of her long program skating not posing. The poses she did do were brief, incorporated creative port de bras, and timed to the music.
The costume was HORRIBLE!
Probably you looked much better 1980????