Nikolas "Nik" Berger (born March 18, 1974 in
Salzburg
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) is an Austrian beach volleyball player.
Berger began his career in indoor volleyball in 1986. Among his major achievements are the Austrian national championships runner-up with ''PLO/ASV Salzburg'' in 1992 and after he moved to the capital for playing with the club ''Donaukraft Vienna'', he was four times Austrian champion and Austrian Cup winner. At the
1999 European Championship, play at home in
Vienna
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, Berger finished his career in indoor volleyball.
In 1993, he had also begun parallel career with the beach volleyball. With
Oliver Stamm, Berger competed at the
2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...
, in Sydney, but they lost to the Brazilian duo
Zé Marco de Melo
José Marco "Zé Marco" Nóbrega Ferreira de Melo (born March 19, 1971 in João Pessoa, Paraíba) is a beach volleyball player from Brazil, who won the silver medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Aust ...
/
Ricardo Santos. At the
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...
, in Athens, he plays with
Florian Gosch after an injury to his season partner
Clemens Doppler. A year earlier he won the
European Championships
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with Doppler.
After the 2005 season the duo Berger/Doppler went their separate ways.
Berger plays with
Robert Nowotny until the 2008 season.
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1974 births
Living people
Austrian beach volleyball players
Men's beach volleyball players
Olympic beach volleyball players of Austria
Beach volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Beach volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Salzburg