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Born | Allentsteig, Austria | 7 August 1986||||||||||||||
Height | 182 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||
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Stefanie Schwaiger (born 7 August 1986) is a female beach volleyball player from Austria.
She is the sister of Doris Schwaiger, and they are the team Schwaiger – Schwaiger in international beach volleyball. The sisters, born a year apart, represented Austria at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Great Britain. They finished 5th in both tournaments.[1] At the 2008 Summer Olympics they lost 2 – 0 to Tian Jia and Wang Jie of China in the quarterfinals while at the 2012 Summer Olympics they lost in the quarterfinals 2–0 to Zhang Xi and Xue Chen, also of China.[2][3]