Career
Horst and teammate Florian Gosch represented Austria at the Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. His career highlights include a 5th place showing at the Beijing Games, a 2nd place at the European Beach Volleyball Championships in Sochi, Russia, and a 2nd place at the Stare Jablonki Grand Slam in Poland in
In his first full season playing with big blocker Gosch, the results were very positive including ninth-place positions at the Grand Slam in Stavenger, Norway, the Beach Volleyball World Championships in Gstaad, Switzerland and the European Beach Volleyball Championships in Spain. A disappointing season with no top 10 finishes up until the olympic games in Beijing, China.
In the games, they overcame possible elimination in the lucky loser bracket to post a very solid 5th-place finish in eventually losing to the Brazilian silver medalists, Marcio and Fabio.
A very good season with 7 top 10 finishes and then topping it off with a silver medal at the European Beach Volleyball Championships in Sochi, Russia. Best finishes in include a 7th place showing early in the season in Shanghai, and a 4th-place finish in Marseille World Series in July.
This in his last season playing with Gosch who would have to retire at the end of the season due to knee complications. Their best showing was a 17th place in the Beach Volleyball World Championships in Rome.
On October 21,, the pair officially announced their split.
Horst and Doppler would go on to announce their partnership 2 weeks later. The season started out at the Myslowice Open in Poland. Horst and Doppler placed a solid 7th place to kick off the new season.
However, their best success in the season was grabbing a last-minute spot in the Summer Olympic Games during the qualification round in Moscow on July 1.
The pair had a heartbreaking pool play loss to the Swiss team Heuscher/Bellaguarda in the Summer Olympic Games, ending their olympic hopes in pool play with a 19th place. One week after the olympics, the Austrian duo rebounded for silver medal performance and beating the season"s world champions Gibb/Rosenthal for their best showing on the FIVB tour by an Austrian men"s pair ever.
