Nik Berger

Nikolas Berger is a redirect to this article. For the judge see Nikolaus Berger .

Nik Berger
portrait
birthday	March 18, 1974
place of birth	Salzburg , Austria
size	1.98 m
Indoor volleyball
societies
	PLO / ASV Salzburg Donaukraft Vienna
National team
	A national team
successes
1996 - Austrian champion and cup winner 1997 - Austrian champion and cup winner 1998 - Austrian champion and cup winner 1999 - Austrian champion and cup winner 1999 - 8th place European championship
beach volleyball
successes
1996 - Austrian Champion 1999 - 4th place European Championship 2000 - Austrian Champion 2000 - Round of 16 Olympic Games 2001 - 4th place European Championship 2001 - Round of 16 World Championship 2002 - Austrian Champion 2002 - 4th place European Championship 2003 - European Champion 2006 - Austrian Champion
As of February 17, 2014

Nikolas "Nik" Berger (born March 18, 1974 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian volleyball and beach volleyball player.

Career

Nik Berger began his career in indoor volleyball in 1986. In 1992 he was Austrian runner-up with the PLO / ASV Salzburg. The business student then received a scholarship to study abroad at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa . There he spent the next two years. Back in Austria, he moved to the capital and was Austrian champion and cup winner four times with the Donaukraft Wien club until 1999. Nikolas Berger ended his indoor volleyball career with the 1999 home European championship in Vienna .
In 1993 he had already started playing beach volleyball parallel to the hall. Here Berger won several Austrian championships with various partners and achieved several semi-finals at World Trophy tournaments and on the FIVB tour.

The highlights of the all-rounder's career were the first Austrian triple victory in 1996 (indoor champion and cup winner as well as beach volleyball champion in the same year) and the European championship title in 2003 (together with Clemens Doppler ).

With Oliver Stamm , Nik Berger reached the round of 16 at the Olympic Games in Sydney , which they lost to the later silver medalists Zé Marco / Ricardo . At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , Berger retired from the preliminary round with Florian Gosch after an injury to his partner Clemens Doppler .

After the 2005 season, the Berger / Doppler duo went their separate ways. Nik Berger won the 2006 Grand Masters with Robert Nowotny on Vienna's Rathausplatz.

Web links

• Berger / Nowotny website
• Nik Berger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)

Individual evidence

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