Kay Matysik (born 18 June 1980, in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

) is a German male

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. He competed for Germany at 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 ...

with team-mate

Jonathan Erdmann Jonathan Erdmann (born 12 March 1988 in Potsdam) is a German beach volleyball player. He competed for Germany at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) w ...

. They were knocked out in the last 16. The same pair won the bronze medal at the

2013 Beach Volleyball World Championships The 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Championships was a beach volleyball double-gender event, held from 1 to 7 July 2013 in Stare Jabłonki, Poland. The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships are organized every two years, and Poland ...

, beating former world champions

Alison Cerutti Alison Conte Cerutti (born 7 December 1985) is a Brazilian beach volleyball player. He plays as a blocker. In 2011, along with Emanuel Rego he won the Swatch FIVB World Tour in Prague, Czech Republic.

and

Emanuel Rego Emanuel Fernando Sheffer Rego (born April 15, 1973) is a male beach volleyball player from Brazil, who competed in five consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. He won the gold medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2004 Summer Ol ...

in the bronze medal match.

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1980 births Living people German men's beach volleyball players Beach volleyball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic beach volleyball players of Germany Volleyball players from Berlin {{Germany-volleyball-bio-stub