2012
The season started out at the Myslowice Open in Poland. Horst and Doppler placed a solid 7th place to kick off the new season. Between mixed results in the FIVB World Tour and the 2012 CEV European Championships, Horst and Doppler posted a hometown win in Baden, Austria. However, their best success in the 2012 season was grabbing a last-minute spot in the 2012 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 2012 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.
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