Kay Matysik

As of August 21, 2013

Kay Matysik ( born June 18, 1980 in Berlin ) is a German volleyball and beach volleyball player.

Career beach volleyball

Kay Matysik played as a native of Berlin for the first time in 2001 with Karl Strempel at the World Tour tournament in his hometown. 2003 and 2004, followed by other appearances in Berlin with Thomas Kröger. The team Kröger / Matysik played but mainly the German tour and her biggest success was the victory at the Masters in Burg auf Fehmarn. In 2005 Matysik made ​​together with Marcus Popp for only one season a new duo. Matysik / Popp reached a tournament victory in Cagliari, two Masters successes in Essen and Dresden as well as third place in the German Championship in Timmendorfer beach. The following year Matysik occupied with his new partner Eric Koreng the 13th place at the European Championship. The same result was also held with Stefan Uhmann at the European Championships in 2007, were added three national tournament victories in Erfurt, Fehmarn and Munich. In the final of the German Cup, they had to close the team of Brink / Christoph Dieckmann beaten. 2008 Matysik / Uhmann reach as the first male team three wins in a row at the CEV tour. At the end of the season they finished winning the first place in the European rankings. They also reached the final of the European Championship. Matysik's partner for the 2009 season was initially Christoph Dieckmann. After Dieckmann had to end his career because of knee problems in June 2009, Matysik formed a new duo with Jonathan Erdmann.

Erdmann / Matysik participated in the 2009 World Championships in Stavanger, but left as a group of third parties in the first round. In the same year they played their first Grand Slams and finished fourth of the German championship. In 2010 she reached in Rome, Stavanger and Klagenfurt each ninth place. At the World Championship 2011 in Stavanger she lost her first round match against German rivals Klemperer / Koreng, but still managed to win the group; in the second round they dropped out with a 1-2 against the Latvians Plavins / Šmēdiņš. At the World Tour they succeeded after a series of three ninth places and a fourth in Stare Jabłonki. Even more successful they were at the European Championship in Kristiansand. There they defeated after a group stage without losing a set in the knockout phase three Dutch duo before they lost in the purely German final against Julius Brink and Jonas Recker man. The following year, they had to, however, at the European Championships in Scheveningen in the second round the Dutch Boersma / Spijkers beaten. At the World Tour 2012 they reached six times the fifth. They also qualified for the Olympic Games in London. After they had come across the Lucky- Loser- round group Third last sixteen, she dropped out against the eventual finalists Emanuel / Alison. A month later they were in Timmendorfer beach by a final victory against Koreng / Walkenhorst German masters. 2013, it occupied the Grand Slam in Rome the fifth. At the World Championships in Stare Jabłonki they made it to the semifinals without dropping a set. After the defeat against the Dutch Brouwer / Meeuwsen they secured with a win against Alison / Emanuel the bronze medal. At the European Championships in Klagenfurt they reached the fifth place. In August 2013 Matysik was voted Germany's beach volleyball player of the year. Due to a shoulder injury he could not defend his national title.

Career Indoor Volleyball

Matysik began in 1997 with the Volleyball Hall. From 2004 to 2007 and 2008 to 2010 he played with the Netzhoppers Kingswells, with which he became the first Premier League 2006. When SV Lindow / Gransee he played 2007/ 08 in the Brandenburg - League and 2010/ 11 in the second Bundesliga.

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