PLAYBOY MAGAZINE December 1998 Mbox2481 Katarina Witt David Duchovny Gore Vidal

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Gabrielle is known just as much for her professional beach volleyball playing as she is for her modeling career. She has been on countless glamorous and sports magazine covers. 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.

Katarina Witt is best known for her enormous haul of medals and championship titles, which she amassed throughout her career as an amateur and then professional figure skater. The 46 year old, originally from Berlin, Germany (born at a time when both the city and country were divided by the Berlin Wall) is now known for her role as a judge on the popular TV talent show Dancing on Ice. However, she also holds the unusual title of being only the second star to sell out an issue of Playboy, for whom she modelled in 1998. Katarina Witt is a German figure skater and model. She was born on December 3, 1965 in Berlin, Germany. She is sometimes credited as Katarina the Great, Kat, or Kati.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. She has displayed this on many fronts since she retired from the rink - acting both on film and stage, making her debut on the latter last year in the English 15th century morality play 'Everyman' playing the 'Beauty'. She used to take me out of my kindergarden around 1971 on her lunch break and go for a walk through the forest to a skating rink. WWE divas were a popular choice for the magazine, and it wasn’t any different for the super-stunning Christy Hemme. The professional wrestler took the Playboy cover by storm and appeared on the front cover in 2005.Witt's humour - so refreshingly different to more finely-honed political types who head up Olympic bids - was sorely put to the test when she skated for the then communist state. 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." At Calgary as there was no professional circuit in the Eastern Bloc and I wanted to perform on such a circuit in the west, the authorities said to me that I had to win gold if I was to get my wish.

A fotózás a lehető legjobb pillanatban történt. Néhány lány azért szerepel a Playboyban, hogy lökést adjon a karrierjének, míg én akkor a pályám csúcsán voltam. Hatvannál is több amerikai városban léptem fel, magángéppel repültem. Szerepeltem a Ronin című filmben Robert De Niróval, szóval elképesztő évem volt, és így talált meg a fotózási ajánlat” Interview with Katarina Witt – Stalking, Hollywood und zu viele Pfunde (German)". Tagesspiegel. 23 January 2013.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. Sable also has quite the acting career under her belt. She appeared in films including Corky Romano, Ariana’s Quest, The Final Victim, and Sins of the Realm. She has also appeared in various television shows, including Relic Hunter, First Wave, and Pacific Blue. Mia Rosales St. John is considered to be the hottest woman in boxing. Her career is pretty impressive, even if she started boxing late. Mia won in 2005 the International Females Boxers Association Lightweight World Title and the IBA Continental Lightweight Title. She became at the age of 40 the WBC International Female Welterweight Champion.