Julius Brink (born 6 July 1982 in

Münster Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state di ...

) is a beach volleyball player from

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

Jonas Reckermann Jonas Reckermann (born 26 May 1979 in Rheine) is a retired beach volleyball player from Germany. 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 an ...

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 Stavanger,

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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 2008 Summer Olympics

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/ 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, partnering with Julius Br ...

* 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)
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 of Germany Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in beach volleyball Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Münster {{Germany-volleyball-bio-stub

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