Julius Brink (born 6 July 1982) is a German

beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two to four players each on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side o ...

player who won the gold medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2006 European Beach Volleyball Championships in

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, partnering with Christoph Dieckmann. He took part at the Olympic Games in 2008. In 2009, Brink and his current partner,

Jonas Reckermann Jonas Reckermann (born 26 May 1979) is a German retired beach volleyball player. Together with his most recent partner Julius Brink, he won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, which, along with Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst ...

, won four FIVB competitions (three consecutive Grand Slams) and the German Masters of the CEV European Championship Tour. This includes the 2009 FIVB World Championship, held from 26 June to 5 July in

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, beating top seeded

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/Alison in the final and former FIVB world champions and gold medalist of the

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Rogers/ Dalhausser in the semi-final. They are the first German and European team ever to win a world championship title and are currently ranked 22nd on the FIVB World Tour (as of 23 July 2012). On 9 August 2012, Brink and his teammate,

, won the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics. With this victory Germany become the first European country to win the Beach Volleyball in Olympics.

Playing partners

Kjell Schneider Kjell Schneider (born October 4, 1976 in Kiel) is a beach volleyball player from Germany who won the bronze medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany Berlin ( ; ) is the ca ...

* Rudiger Strosik *

Markus Dieckmann Markus Dieckmann (born 7 January 1976 in Bonn) is a retired professional beach volleyball player from Germany who represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he ended up in ninth place in the overall-ranki ...

* Christoph Dieckmann *

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Entry in the Leverkusen who's who

Swatch FIVB World Tour

CEV European Championship Tour

Homepage of Brink Reckermann (German)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brink, Julius 1982 births Living people German men's beach volleyball players Beach volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Beach volleyball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic beach volleyball players for Germany Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in beach volleyball Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Münster 21st-century German sportsmen

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