Katarina Gerboldt

Katarina Gerboldt
Gerboldt at the 2008 NHK Trophy
Personal information
Full name	Katarina Alexandrovna Gerboldt
Country represented	Russia
Born	(1989-03-28) 28 March 1989 (age 28) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Former partner	Brian Joubert, Alexander Enbert
Former coach	Oleg Vasiliev, Artur Dmitriev, Oksana Kazakova, Tamara Moskvina, Svetlana Sokolovskaya, Tatiana Mishina, Alexei Mishin, Anna Sedelkova
Former choreographer	Ilia Averbukh, Natalia Bestemianova, Igor Bobrin, Anna Sysoeva, Tatiana Druchinina, Valerii Pecherski, Anna Bilibina, Irina Zhuk
Skating club	Yubileyny
Former training locations	Moscow
Began skating	1995
Retired	September 23, 2015

Katarina Alexandrovna Gerboldt (Russian: Катарина Александровна Гербольдт; born 28 March 1989) is a Russian figure skater. In single skating, her best result at an ISU Championship was sixth at the 2009 European Championships. In 2010, she switched to pair skating, teaming up with Alexander Enbert. They appeared at one ISU Championship, the 2011 European Championships where they placed fourth.

Gerboldt became interested in figure skating at the age of six. Gerboldt denied the assertion that her parents named her "Katarina" in honor of Katarina Witt, and stated that her parents had indeed wanted her to become a sportswoman, but not specifically a figure skater.

The 2008-09 season was a turning point in Gerboldt's career. She won the bronze medal at the 2009 Russian Championships and, as both the gold and silver medalists Adelina Sotnikova and Elizaveta Tuktamysheva were too young to participate in international competition, was named to the European Championships team. She placed sixth, skating with a drainage in her nose due to sinusitis. She was coached by Tatiana Mishina and Alexei Mishin in Saint Petersburg until 2009 when she moved to CSKA Moscow and began working with Svetlana Sokolovskaya.

After an unsuccessful 2009–10 season, Tatiana Druchinina suggested to Gerboldt that she switch to pair skating. Gerboldt moved back to Saint Petersburg, where coaches Tamara Moskvina and Artur Dmitriev asked her to try out with Alexander Enbert, whom she knew since childhood. The new partnership was announced in March 2010.