Nikolas Berger

{{short description|Austrian beach volleyball player}}

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| birth_place = Salzburg, Austria

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{{MedalSport | Men's beach volleyball }}

{{MedalCountry | {{AUT}} }}

{{MedalCompetition | European Championships }}

{{MedalGold | 2003 Alanya | Beach }}

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Nikolas "Nik" Berger (born March 18, 1974, in Salzburg) is an Austrian beach volleyball player.{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Nik Berger |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/nik-berger-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418024849/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/nik-berger-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |accessdate=1 May 2014}}

Berger began his career in indoor volleyball in 1986. Among his major achievements are the Austrian national championships runner-up with PLO/ASV Salzburg in 1992 and after he moved to the capital for playing with the club Donaukraft Vienna, he was four times Austrian champion and Austrian Cup winner. At the 1999 European Championship, play at home in Vienna, Berger finished his career in indoor volleyball.{{cite web |title=Berger/Doppler in nur zwei Jahren auf Europas Thron |url=http://www.news.at/articles/0335/20/63761_s3/berger-doppler-jahren-europas-thron |publisher=News.at |accessdate=1 May 2014 |language=German |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120904033535/http://www.news.at/articles/0335/20/63761_s3/berger-doppler-jahren-europas-thron |archivedate=4 September 2012 }}

In 1993, he had also begun parallel career with the beach volleyball. With Oliver Stamm, Berger competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics, in Sydney, but they lost to the Brazilian duo Zé Marco de Melo/Ricardo Santos.{{cite web |title=FIVB World Tour/Open XXVII Olympic Games September 16 – 26, 2000 (17) Nikolas Berger/Oliver Stamm, Austria |url=http://66.29.222.67/TeamPreview.aspx?TournID=783&ID1=574&ID2=550 |publisher=Beach Volleyball Database |accessdate=1 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502032303/http://66.29.222.67/TeamPreview.aspx?TournID=783&ID1=574&ID2=550 |archive-date=2 May 2014 |url-status=dead }} At the 2004 Summer Olympics, in Athens, he plays with Florian Gosch after an injury to his season partner Clemens Doppler.{{cite web |title=Austria Replaces Doppler with Gosch for Athens 2004 Beach Volleyball Competition |url=http://www.fivb.org/EN/BeachVolleyball/Competitions/olympics/math2004/PressRelease.asp?PRNo=1 |publisher=Fédération Internationale de Volleyball |accessdate=1 May 2014}} A year earlier he won the European Championships with Doppler.{{cite web |title=Men's CEV € 100,000 European Championships August 27-31, 2003 Alanya, Turkey |url=http://www.bvbinfo.com/Tournament.asp?ID=1836 |publisher=Beach Volleyball Database |accessdate=1 May 2014}}

After the 2005 season the duo Berger/Doppler went their separate ways.{{cite web |title=SWATCH-FIVB World Tour Idle, but Turkey Hosts Europeans |url=http://www.fivb.org/EN/BeachVolleyball/Competitions/WorldTour/2006/beach_page.asp?TRN=MSHA2006&PG=PRE&No=10129 |publisher=Fédération Internationale de Volleyball |accessdate=1 May 2014}} Berger plays with Robert Nowotny until the 2008 season.