Heinz-Ulrich WALTHER

East German skater Heinz-Ulrich Walther paired with Brigitte Wokoeck at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Olympics and finished 11th with the mixed German team. In 1962 and 1964 the pair was East German national champions. At the European Championships they placed sixth in 1962 and eighth in 1963.

In 1968 Walther started for East Germany at Grenoble and came in fourth with his new partner Heidi Steiner, whom he married in 1969. They won the East German title in 1966, 1967, 1969, and 1970, also earning three bronze medals at the 1967, 1968 and 1970 Europeans, as well as another one at the 1970 Worlds. This was the first international pair skating medal for the former GDR.

Walther later studied medicine and was employed by the Charité Hospital (University Medicine of Berlin) as an orthopaedist. He also acted as an international figure skating judge and ISU technical controller for pair skating.