Alexander Horst is a beach volleyball

Beach volleyball

Beach volleyball, or sand volleyball, is an Olympic team sport played by two teams of two players on a sand court divided by a net.Like volleyball, the object of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent....

 player from Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

. Horst found most success with partner Florian Gosch

Florian Gosch

Florian Gosch is a beach volleyball player from Austria.He and team mate Nikolas Berger represented Austria at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Gosch and team mate Alexander Horst represented Austria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.-External links:* * at the Beach...

 on the FIVB world Beach Volleyball Tour. A knee injury forced Florian Gosch

Florian Gosch

Florian Gosch is a beach volleyball player from Austria.He and team mate Nikolas Berger represented Austria at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Gosch and team mate Alexander Horst represented Austria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.-External links:* * at the Beach...

 into retirement in the fall of 2010.

Horst and teammate Florian Gosch

Florian Gosch

Florian Gosch is a beach volleyball player from Austria.He and team mate Nikolas Berger represented Austria at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Gosch and team mate Alexander Horst represented Austria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.-External links:* * at the Beach...

 represented Austria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Highlights include a 5th place showing at the Beijing Games and a 2nd place at the 2009 European Beach Volleyball Championships

European Beach Volleyball Championships

The European Beach Volleyball Championship is a sport competition for national teams in the sport of beach volleyball. The championship combines events for men and women, and is held annually, organized by the CEV . At the first European Championships held in 1993 just men competed...

 in Sochi

Sochi

Sochi is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated just north of Russia's border with the de facto independent republic of Abkhazia, on the Black Sea coast. Greater Sochi sprawls for along the shores of the Black Sea near the Caucasus Mountains...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

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2010

Best finishes in 2010 include a 7th place showing early in the season in Shanghai, and a 4th place finish in Marseille World Series in July.

2011

After the retirement of Gosch, Horst played on the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour with new partner and beach volleyball rookie Daniel Müllner. Their best showing was a 17th place in the 2011 Beach Volleyball World Championships

2011 Beach Volleyball World Championships

The 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Championships was a beach volleyball event, that was held from June 13 to 19, 2011 in Rome, Italy. The Swatch FIVB World Championships are organized every two years, and Italy hosted the event for the first time...

 in Rome.

On October 21, 2011, the pair officially announced their split. Speculation began immediately of an Alexander Horst / Clemens Doppler

Clemens Doppler

Clemens Doppler is a beach volleyball player from Austria.He and team mate Peter Gartmayer represented Austria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China...

 duo, who also split from his partner on the same day.

External links

• Official Horst-Müllner Website
• Profile at the Beach Volleyball Database
  Beach Volleyball Database
  The Beach Volleyball Database is an online website that holds extensive information about international beach volleyball players, tournaments and history. News are frequently updated, and the site has results for continental and international tournaments...