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julius brink

julius brink -lrb- born 6 july 1982 in münster -rrb- is a beach volleyball player from germany , who won the gold medal in the men 's beach team competition at the 2006 european beach volleyball championships in the hague , netherlands , partnering christoph dieckmann .
he took part at the olympic games in 2008 .
in 2009 he and his current partner jonas reckermann won four fivb competitions -lrb- three consecutive grand slams -rrb- and the german masters of the cev european championship tour .
this includes the 2009 fivb world championship , held from 26 june to 5 july in stavanger , norway , beating top seeded harley/alison in the final and former fivb world champions and gold medalist of the 2008 summer olympics rogers/dalhausser in the semi final .
they are the first german and european team ever to win a world championship title and are currently ranked 22nd on the fivb world tour -lrb- as of 23 july 2012 -rrb- .
on 9 august 2012 , brink and his teammate jonas reckermann won the gold medal at the 2012 london olympics .
with this victory germany become the first european country to win the beach volleyball in olympics .
