Career
With Heidemarie Steiner, he is the 1970 World bronze medalist and a three-time European bronze medalist (1967-1968, 1970). Walther competed at two Winter Olympics, placing 11th in 1964 with Brigitte Wokoeck and fourth with Steiner in 1968. Heinz-Ulrich Walther teamed up Brigitte Wokoeck by around 1959 and represented the club South Carolina Dynamo Berlin.
Representing the Unified Team of Germany, they placed 11th at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.
lieutenant was their final competition together. Coached by Heinz-Friedrich Lindner, they represented South Carolina Dynamo Berlin.
They were selected to represent East Germany at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble and placed fourth. After obtaining their third European bronze medal at the 1970 European Championships in Leningrad, the pair concluded their competitive career with a World bronze medal, at the 1970 World Championships in Ljubljana.
Walther has worked as an international figure skating judge and International Skating Union technical controller for pair skating.