Heinz-Ulrich Walther is a German pair skater and figure skating judge who represented East Germany and the Unified Team of Germany in competition.

Biography

Heinz-Ulrich Walther first competed with Brigitte Wokoeck

Brigitte Wokoeck

Brigitte Wokoeck is a former pair skater who represented East Germany and the Unified Team of Germany in competition. With partner Heinz-Ulrich Walther, she won the gold medal at the 1962 and 1964 East German Figure Skating Championships...

 and represented the club SC Dynamo Berlin. They were the 1962 and 1964 East German champions

East German Figure Skating Championships

The National Championships of the German Democratic Republic in Figure Skating were the figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of the German Democratic Republic, often referred to as East Germany...

. They represented the Unified German Team at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Germany at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Athletes from East Germany and West Germany competed together as the United Team of Germany for the last time at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan...

, where they placed 11th.

After that partnership ended, he teamed up with Heidemarie Steiner

Heidemarie Steiner

Heidemarie Steiner married Walther, is a German figure skater and coach. She competed in pair skating and ladies singles....

 in 1964. They were married in 1969. They represented the club SC Dynamo Berlin and were coached by Heinz-Friedrich Lindner. They are the 1970 World bronze medalists

World Figure Skating Championships

The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...

. They represented East Germany at the 1968 Winter Olympics

East Germany at the 1968 Winter Olympics

East Germany competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. East German athletes had competed together with West German athletes as the United Team of Germany in the previous three Winter Olympic Games, but both nations sent independent teams starting in 1968.-Medalists:- Alpine...

, where they placed 4th.

Heinz-Ulrich Walther studied medicine and worked at the Charité

Charité

The Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin is the medical school for both the Humboldt University and the Free University of Berlin. After the merger with their fourth campus in 2003, the Charité is one of the largest university hospitals in Europe....

 in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

. Until he became a pensionair he worked there as an academic employee at the orthopaedics department at the Center for Complementary Medicine Research – CCM.

He is still international figure skating judge and international ISU technical controller for pair skating.

Competitive highlights

(with Heidemarie Steiner)

Event	1966	1967	1968	1969	1970
Winter Olympic Games Winter Olympic Games The Winter Olympic Games is a sporting event, which occurs every four years. The first celebration of the Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. The original sports were alpine and cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping and speed skating...			4th
World Championships World Figure Skating Championships The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...	9th	5th	5th	5th	3rd
European Championships European Figure Skating Championships The European Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition in which figure skaters compete for the title of European Champion...	8th	3rd	3rd	4th	3rd
East German Championships East German Figure Skating Championships The National Championships of the German Democratic Republic in Figure Skating were the figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of the German Democratic Republic, often referred to as East Germany...	1st	1st	2nd	1st	1.st

(with Brigitte Wokoeck)

Event	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964
Winter Olympic Games Winter Olympic Games The Winter Olympic Games is a sporting event, which occurs every four years. The first celebration of the Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. The original sports were alpine and cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping and speed skating...					10th
European Championships European Figure Skating Championships The European Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition in which figure skaters compete for the title of European Champion...			6th	8th
East German Championships East German Figure Skating Championships The National Championships of the German Democratic Republic in Figure Skating were the figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of the German Democratic Republic, often referred to as East Germany...	3rd		1st	3rd	1st

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