Beach Volleyball - Team Thole J./Wickler

General
Clemens Wickler and Julius Thole partnered up in late 2017. After being named FIVB Most Improved Men's Team for 2018/19, both players will make their Olympic debut at the 2020 Games in Tokyo.

Their first World Tour season together in 2018 saw the young German duo make one podium, a bronze, in Espinho, Portugal. In 2019 they claimed three World Tour podium finishes, including silver in The Hague, bronze in Moscow, and silver at the World Tour Finals in Rome. On both silver medal occasions, they were defeated in the final by Russian pair Viacheslav Krasilnikov and Oleg Stoyanovskiy.

Wickler and Thole made their world championship debut in 2019 and made an impressive run to the final, including a semifinal victory over Norway's Anders Mol and Christian Sorum. However, they lost to Krasilnikov and Stoyanovskiy in the final, with the Russian duo proving to be the Germans' nemesis in 2019.