Clemens Doppler
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Beach volleyball
Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....
player from Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
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He and team mate Peter Gartmayer
Peter Gartmayer
Peter Gartmayer is a beach volleyball player from Austria.He and team mate Robert Nowotny represented Austria at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece...
represented Austria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Although he qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics, an injury kept him out and he was replaced by Florian Gosch
Florian Gosch
Florian Gosch is a beach volleyball player from Austria.He and team mate Nikolas Berger represented Austria at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Gosch and team mate Alexander Horst represented Austria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.-External links:* * at the Beach...
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After the 2008 Summer Olympics
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...
, Doppler played with partner Matthias Mellitzer from 2009 until the end of the end of the 2011 season. On October 21, 2011, Doppler and Mellitzer announced their split. Media and the press speculate that Doppler will team up with fellow Beach Volleyballer Alexander Horst
Alexander Horst
Alexander Horst is a beach volleyball player from Austria. Horst found most success with partner Florian Gosch on the FIVB world Beach Volleyball Tour. A knee injury forced Florian Gosch into retirement in the fall of 2010....
who also announced his split with one-year partner Daniel Müllner in October of 2011.