 Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Beijing in 2008.At the 1999 Junior World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia, he won two gold medals with Germany's four-man K-4 crew (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m).As a senior, he has established himself among the elite K-1 500 m paddlers in international competitions but has yet to win an individual gold medal.