Doris Schwaiger (born 28 February 1985) is a retired female

beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two or more players 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 of the ...

player from Austria. She is the sister of

Stefanie Schwaiger Stefanie Schwaiger (born 7 August 1986) is a female beach volleyball player from Austria. She is the sister of Doris Schwaiger, and they are the team Schwaiger – Schwaiger in international beach volleyball. The sisters, born a year apart, re ...

, and they play together in international beach volleyball. The sisters first appeared together at the 2002 FIVB U19 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Xylokastro and then made their World Tour debuts the following year at the Klagenfurt Grand Slam. Their best ever finish on the

FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour (known between 2003 and 2012 as the FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour for sponsorship reasons) was the worldwide professional beach volleyball tour for both men and women organized by the ' ( FIVB), the ...

was second at the 2013 Shanghai Grand Slam. The sisters represented Austria at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

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and the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

in London. They reached the quarterfinals both times. On 30 May 2014 Doris Schwaiger announced her retirement from beach volleyball.

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External links

Doris Schwaiger
at the Beach Volleyball Database
The Schwaiger teams's Website
1985 births Living people Austrian beach volleyball players Women'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 Austria Sportspeople from Vienna {{Austria-volleyball-bio-stub