Clemens Doppler

Clemens Doppler ( born September 6, 1980 in Kirchdorf an der Krems, Austria ) is an Austrian volleyball and beach volleyball player.

Career

Doppler fetched than indoor volleyball four championships at youth level. In 1995, he came at the age of 15 years as the youngest player with the VBC Steyr in the Bundesliga, where he later with the Vienna hotVolleys won the league and cup each twice. He also completed 60 internationals.

1996 Doppler began with the beach volleyball and made up to the year 2000, a duet with Helmut brained, which was, among other European vice-champion in the juniors. After a few rounds and a Austrian league title with Dietmar Maderböck Doppler 2002 came along with Nik Berger, reaching in the first year ranked eleventh in the overall standings of the World Tour. 2003 won the European Championship Doppler with Berger and finished at the end of the season seventh in the world rankings. 2004 Doppler qualified with Berger for the Olympic Games in Athens, but was after a cruciate ligament in the knee does not compete with the big event just before the start of the Games. The duo broke up in 2005.

Doppler's new partner was Peter Mayer Gart. The team was coached by Marco Solustri according to a recent cruciate ligament Doppler 2006 at the home tournament in Klagenfurt already in the following year, European champion, finished ninth at the World Championships in Gstaad and managed several top 10 rankings on the FIVB tournaments. 2008 Doppler / Gartmayer qualified for the Olympic Games in Beijing and reached the second round there.

From 2009 to 2011 played with Doppler Matthias Mellitzer. The two won the silver medal at the European Championships in Berlin in 2010.

Since 2012 Doppler start with Alexander Horst. The new Olympic qualification for London 2012, and shortly thereafter the silver medal in the Grand Slam tournament in Poland were the outstanding results of the newly formed Austrian top teams. The 2012 season ended Clemens Doppler also a record: for the sixth time ( with five different partners ), he won with Alex Horst the austrian national title. At the 2013 World Championships in Stare Jabłonki Doppler / Horst landed at number nine. At the European Championships in 2013 it came to the third cruciate ligament injury Doppler, this time the right knee. Due to the injury had Doppler participation in the tournament finish, but will return again after the injury break.