Heidemarie Steiner

Heidemarie Steiner
nation	German Democratic Republic
birthday	May 9, 1944
place of birth	Kolberg, Pomerania
size	164 cm
Weight	56 kg
Career
discipline	Single run, pair run
Partner	Heinz-Ulrich Walther
society	SC Dynamo Berlin
Trainer	Heinz-Friedrich Lindner
status	resigned
End of career	1970
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 0 × 3 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Ljubljana 1970 Couples  European figure skating championships bronze Ljubljana 1967 Couples bronze Västerås 1968 Couples bronze Leningrad 1970 Couples

Heidemarie Steiner , married. Walther-Steiner or Steiner-Walther (born May 9, 1944 in Kolberg , Pomerania ) is a former German figure skater , who competed in single and pair skating for the GDR , and figure skating trainer.

biography

Steiner started out as a single runner. In 1960 she became GDR champion . She took part in two European championships . In 1960 she was 26th and in 1961 she was 23rd. She was ousted in the GDR figure skating hierarchy by Gabriele Seyfert and wanted to end her career.

However, she then switched to pair skating and henceforth competed with Heinz-Ulrich Walther , whom she married in 1969 and chose Walther-Steiner or Steiner-Walther as her surname. In 1966, 1967, 1969 and 1970 the couple became East German champions . They took part in world and European championships from 1966 to 1970 . At the European Championships in 1967 , 1968 and 1970 they won the bronze medal. They won their only medal at world championships with bronze behind the Soviet couples Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanow and Lyudmila Smirnowa and Andrei Suraikin at the 1970 World Cup in Ljubljana . It was the first medal in pair skating for the GDR at world figure skating championships. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Grenoble , they were fourth to miss a medal. Your trainer was Heinz-Friedrich Lindner .

After finishing her figure skating career and studying at the DHfK , Steiner-Walther became a trainer at SC Dynamo Berlin (now SC Berlin). There she trained among others Romy Kermer and Rolf Oesterreich , Birgit Lorenz and Knut Schubert , Babette Preußler and Tobias Schröter , Katrin Kanitz , Peggy Schwarz and Alexander König as well as Simone Koch . She later trained and choreographed for the Swiss couple Leslie Monod & Cedric Monod . In the 2013-14 season she supervised a. a. the German runner-up Franz Streubel at the European Championships in Budapest. In 1976 she was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit for her achievements as a trainer .

Today she lives again in Berlin, together with husband Heinz-Ulrich Walther.

Heidemarie Steiner, 1963

Results

Single run

Competition / year	1960	1961	1962	1963
European championships	26th	23.
GDR championships	1.	3.	2.	2.

Pair skating

(with Heinz-Ulrich Walther )

Competition / year	1966	1967	1968	1969	1970
winter Olympics			4th
World championships	9.	5.	5.	5.	3.
European championships	8th.	3.	3.	4th	3.
GDR championships	1.	1.	2.	1.	1.

Web links

Commons : Heidemarie Steiner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Heidemarie Steiner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• GDR figure skater Katrin Kanitz still suffers from drill and doping "What is allowed is allowed" , Berliner Zeitung , April 23, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Another half a point difference in the compulsory freestyle. In: New Germany . November 17, 1973. Retrieved March 27, 2018 . 
2. ↑ A dozen questions to. In: New Germany . February 5, 1974. Retrieved March 27, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung: GDR figure skater Katrin Kanitz still suffers from drill and doping "What works is allowed". April 23, 2011, accessed January 5, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , March 25, 1976, p. 4