Julius Brink (born 6 July 1982 in Münster

Münster

Münster is an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also capital of the local government region Münsterland...

) 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 Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, who won the gold medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2006 European Beach Volleyball Championships in The Hague

The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...

, Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

, partnering Christoph Dieckmann

Christoph Dieckmann

Christoph Dieckmann is a male beach volleyball player from Germany. He claimed the gold medal at the 2006 European Championships in The Hague, Netherlands, partnering Julius Brink. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece...

. He took part at the Olympic Games in 2008.
2009 he and his current partner Jonas Reckermann

Jonas Reckermann

Jonas Reckermann is a professional beach volleyball player from Germany, who represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he ended up in ninth place in the overall-rankings...

 won four FIVB competitions (three consecutive Grand Slams) and the German Masters of the CEV European Championship Tour. This includes the 2009 FIVB World Championship

2009 Beach Volleyball World Championships

The 2009 SWATCH FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships is a beach volleyball event, that was held from June 26 to July 5, 2009 in Stavanger, Norway. The Swatch FIVB World Championships are organized every two years, and Norway is the first Northern European country to host the event...

, held from 26 June to 5 July in Stavanger

Stavanger

Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

, beating top seeded Harley

Harley Marques Silva

Harley Marques Silva is a beach volleyball player from Brazil.Team Harley - Pedro, was placed as #5 on the international Olympic ranking for the 2008 Summer Olympics, but did not qualify because of the two teams per country rule.Harley - Pedro was ranked as #2 on the beach volley world ranking per...

/Alison in the final and former FIVB world champions and gold medalist of the 2008 Summer Olympics Rogers

Todd Rogers

Todd Jonathan Rogers is an American professional beach volleyball player. He and his partner, Phil Dalhausser, were the 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 AVP Tour champions, and are the reigning FIVB world champions, and reigning Olympic gold medalists from the Summer Olympics in Beijing.Rogers and...

/Dalhausser

Phil Dalhausser

Philip "Phil" Peter Dalhausser is an American professional beach volleyball player. He and his playing partner, Todd Rogers, are the 2007 AVP Tour champions and the reigning FIVB world champions....

 in the semi final. They are the first German and European team ever to win a world championship title and are currently top seeded at the FIVB World Tour.

Playing partners

• Kjell Schneider
  Kjell Schneider
  Kjell Schneider is a beach volleyball player from Germany, who won the bronze medal in the men's beach team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany, partnering Julius Brink....
  
  
• Rudiger Strosik
• Markus Dieckmann
  Markus Dieckmann
  Markus Dieckmann is a retired professional beach volleyball player from Germany, who represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he ended up in ninth place in the overall-rankings....
  
  
• Christoph Dieckmann
  Christoph Dieckmann
  Christoph Dieckmann is a male beach volleyball player from Germany. He claimed the gold medal at the 2006 European Championships in The Hague, Netherlands, partnering Julius Brink. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece...
  
  
• Jonas Reckermann
  Jonas Reckermann
  Jonas Reckermann is a professional beach volleyball player from Germany, who represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he ended up in ninth place in the overall-rankings...