Post Retirement
After the 1987 Worlds Szabo retired from artistic gymnastics and she went to study at the University of Physical and Sports Education in Bucharest. After graduation, she worked as a coach at Deva where she trained among others Nadia Haţegan, Andreea Cacovean, and the 1999 World Champion Maria Olaru. In June 1991, Szabo married Christian Tamas, a former member of Romania's kayak team. The two later had two sons named Lorenzo and Zeno. In 1992, the family left Romania and settled in Chamalieres, France where she now works as a coach.
On the 92nd episode of Seinfeld, "The Gymnast"" (aired on November 3, 1994) Jerry Seinfeld dated Katya, and mentioned that she is a Romanian gymnast which won the silver medal for gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics. If Katya were based on a real person, she would probably be Ecaterina Szabo (although she also won four gold medals at the 1984 Games).
In 2005, she was featured in a two-part documentary series titled Székely sportolók Kelettől Nyugatig (Székely Athletes from East to West). The thirty-minute portrait film about Szabo was captioned A zágoni üstökös (The Comet of Zagon). A kindergarten in her hometown Zagon, the Szabó Kati Óvoda bears her name since 2007. In 2008, the sports hall of Sfântu Gheorghe was renamed in the honor of the four time Olympic champion.
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