in 2016, dauser became the national champion on parallel bars, scoring even more points than marcel nguyen, the country's previous leader on parallel bars. at the pre-olympic qualification, the german team ranked first, with dauser capping off the meet in fourth position on the parallel bars. on 10 july, andreas hirsch, head coach of the german national team, proposed that dauser would be included in the national team to the 2016 summer olympics in rio de janeiro. there, dauser, along with the german quintet of andreas bretschneider, fabian hambüchen, marcel nguyen, and andreas toba, scored a total of 261.275 points to take the seventh position in the team all-around final.