Katarina Witt
Katarina Witt, who has won several gold medals at both the 1984 and the 1988 East Germany Olympics, is one of the most legendary names in figure-skating. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the secret police gave her cars, accommodations, and tour guards to prevent her from being defective. Now defunct, the archives of East Germany opened up, and Witt found 3,000 pages on her going all the way back when she was eight years old. She’s been modeling and had cameo appearances in several movies, like Jerry Maguire.
Katarina Witt
Yuna Kim
In recent years, Yuna Kim has had one of the most remarkable skating runs, winning gold in 2010 and silver in individual competition in 2014. “Queen Yuna,” as it is dubbed, raised her home country, South Korea, to a status previously unknown in the skating world and became one of the most widely recognized South Korean athletes in the world. While she retired in 2018 and did not compete when the Winter Games went to South Korea, that year, she lit the Olympic cauldron. Her many endorsements and television appearances keep her busy.
Yuna Kim