Alexander Horst
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| Full name | Alexander Horst | ||||||||||||
| Born | December 20, 1982 Vienna,  Austria |
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| Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||
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Alexander Horst (born December 20, 1982) is a beach volleyball player from Austria. He currently plays on the FIVB World Beach Volleyball Tour with new partner Clemens Doppler. Horst found most success with partner Florian Gosch on the FIVB World Beach Volleyball Tour. A knee injury forced Florian Gosch into early retirement in the fall of 2010.
Horst and teammate Florian Gosch represented Austria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. Career highlights include a 5th place showing at the Beijing Games and a 2nd place at the 2009 European Beach Volleyball Championships in Sochi, Russia.
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[edit] 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. This in this last season playing with Gosch.
[edit] 2011
After the retirement of Gosch, Horst played on the 2011 FIVB World Beach Volleyball Tour with new partner and beach volleyball rookie Daniel Müllner. Their best showing was a 17th place in the 2011 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Rome.
On October 21, 2011, the pair officially announced their split. Speculation began immediately of an Alexander Horst / Clemens Doppler duo, who also split from his partner on the same day. Horst and Doppler would go on to announce their partnership 2 weeks later.
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