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SNOW VOLLEYBALL NIGHT
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
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SNOW VOLLEYBALL NIGHT
Snow Volleyball Night is an event jointly
organised by the International Volleyball
Federation (FIVB) and the European Volleyball
Confederation (CEV).
It will take place during the Winter Olympic
Games in PyeongChang, South Korea on February
14, 2018 at the Austria House.
An exhibition match will take place at 16:00,
featuring male and female volleyball and beach
volleyball stars from Austria, Brazil, China, Serbia
and South Korea.
Players will compete in a mixed gender, three-a-
side match in a best of three sets competition.
The first two sets end with the first team to
reach 21 points, and the third with 15. A special
court format of 7m X 14m will be tested during
the event.
The match will be followed by a press conference
at 17:30, convened for an announcement on the
development of snow volleyball worldwide and
future plans for the sport, including the inaugural
snow volleyball European Championships in
March 2018 in Austria. At 18:30, there will be a
reception and a chance to find out more about
snow volleyball.
The public is invited to watch the exhibition
match on February 14 and attend the family
event at Austria House on February 15 to join
some of volleyball’s true legends on the snow.
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Gilberto (Giba) Amaury de Godoy Filho was
widely regarded as one of the best volleyball
players in the world for much of the 2000s.
The Brazilian won a gold medal at the Athens
2004 Olympic Games, as well as silver medals
at the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic
Games, and was victorious at three World
Championships (2002, 2006, 2010). During his
professional career he played for clubs in Brazil,
Italy, Russia, Argentina and the United Arab
Emirates. Giba is now the President of the FIVB
Athletes’ Commission.
Emanuel Rego represented Brazil in beach
volleyball at five consecutive Olympic Games.
Emanuel won gold at Athens 2004, as well as
silver in 2012 and bronze in 2008. As well as
being the recipient of many individual awards
for his incredible athleticism, Emanuel is a three-
time world champion, two-time Pan-American
Games gold medallist and is an expert on the
FIVB Athletes’ Commission.
One of the most decorated volleyball players
of his generation, Grbić is a member of the
International Volleyball Hall of Fame, having
won gold at the Sydney 2000 and bronze at
the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games. The Serbian
has won medals at both World and European
Championship level, as well as reaching the
World League podium three times during his
distinguished career, and now represents the
FIVB Athletes’ Commission as Secretary.
With the event being hosted by the Austria
House, Nikolas Berger is sure to be a fan
favourite. Having played both indoor and beach
volleyball during his career, it seems only natural
that Berger would now attempt snow volleyball!
A four-time Austrian volleyball champion, Berger
also represented his country on the sand at the
Athens 2004 Olympic Games, and won gold at the
2003 European Beach Volleyball Championships
in Alanya, Turkey before retiring in 2008.
GILBERTO (GIBA) AMAURY DE GODOY FILHO
BRAZIL
EMANUEL REGO BRAZIL
VLADIMIR GRBIC SERBIA
NIKOLAS BERGER AUSTRIA
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The Chinese beach volleyball star burst onto the
scene in 2006 when, aged just 17, Xue won the
China Shanghai Jinshan Open. She went on to
win a bronze medal at her home Olympic Games
in Beijing, and narrowly missed out on another
medal four years later in London. Xue is a two-
time World Championship medallist, winning
gold in 2013 and bronze in 2011, and currently sits
as a member on the FIVB Athletes’ Commission.
A MVP in volleyball at the London 2012 Olympic
Games, Kim has represented South Korea on
some of the FIVB’s biggest stages throughout her
career. Kim won the Asian Games in 2014, and
also has a silver medal from 2010, as well as four
Asian Championship podium finishes, including
a bronze at last year’s event in the Philippines.
She won the CEV Volleyball Champions League in
2012 with Fenerbahce SK ISTANBUL, receiving the
award for the Most Valuable Player of the Final
Four tournament held in Baku, Azerbaijan. Kim is
also a member of the FIVB Athletes’ Commission.
XUE CHEN CHINA
KIM YEON-KOUNG SOUTH KOREA
Stefanie Schwaiger will also be hoping to get the
Austrian crowd onside at the exhibition event in
PyeongChang. Having represented her country
in beach volleyball at back-to-back Olympic
Games (2008, 2012), Schwaiger became a home-
nation favourite when she and her elder sister
Doris won the 2013 European Championships in
Klagenfurt, Austria.
STEFANIE SCHWAIGER AUSTRIA
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Though people all over the world have been
playing volleyball in the snow for many years,
the adventure to formalise snow volleyball
as a sport began in 2008, in the mountains of
Wagrain, Austria. For the first time in the history
of this winter sports resort, net posts and pitch
lines were dug into the snow at an altitude of
around 1,850m, with Chaka 2 becoming the first
promoter.
On October 16, 2015, at its Congress in Sofia,
Bulgaria, the European Volleyball Confederation
(CEV) confirmed the addition of the new sport
to its official calendar. The first CEV Snow
Volleyball European Tour took place under
the umbrella of the continental confederation
and was held between March and April 2016
with three stops in as many countries (Czech
Republic, Austria and Italy).
The first international snow volleyball
competition outside of Europe took place on
February 12 and 13, 2017, at the Dizin mountain
resort in Iran, 2,650 meters above sea level.
The Iranian national television channel TV3
broadcast the event live, raising the awareness
of the new discipline throughout the country.
In 2017, the FIVB held its inaugural three-day
Volleyball Your Way Snow Festival from March
22-24 at Wagrain-Kleinarl in Austria, followed by
the international Snow Volleyball Goes Europe
professional tournament on March 25-26.
Following the success of the European Tour, the
CEV decided to organise the Snow Volleyball
European Championships in March 2018 for the
first time ever.
The FIVB is also currently developing snow
volleyball by teaming up with existing sports
events to build awareness of the discipline and
create a global movement, built on what has
been put in place already on the European Tour.
Snow volleyball demonstrates the fun, passion and
universality of the sport of volleyball, which is now
accessible all year round, from the summer to the
winter, from the beach to the mountains, indoor and
outdoor. Volleyball any time, any place, anywhere.
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TES Between 2017-2019, the FIVB aims to establish
an eight-year plan and will test rules and
regulations at various demonstration events.
The FIVB vision is to offer opportunities to enjoy
volleyball in all its forms which can unite people
in a peaceful environment, with the goal of
being the number one family sport in the world.
The FIVB and CEV have recognised snow
volleyball as one of their disciplines and the two
organisations hope that all affiliated volleyball
governing bodies will do the same in their
respective countries. This will contribute to
the growth of the sport at the grassroots and
international level.
The goal is to have a full-fledged World
Tour from 2018/2019 season (minimum three
stops within the territory of three different
Confederations), a World Championship in 2020
and a demonstration event at the 2020 Youth
Olympic Games in Lausanne.
One of the goals of the FIVB is to create new
opportunities to attract tourism at prestigious
winter resorts and possibly to partner with
iconic venues and existing sports events as well
as new sponsors.
For the moment, there is no specific uniform
designed for snow volleyball, so various types
of clothing can be observed on the courts. Most
athletes who play snow volleyball are also beach
or indoor volleyball players.
As snow volleyball players, they usually wear
thermal underwear under existing volleyball
uniforms, that consist of synthetic t-shirts and
shorts with some promotional logos. This helps
players keep warm – especially in negative
temperatures – while conveying the image of
volleyball in general to the audience.
Football boots are used when playing snow
volleyball, since they provide a grip on the
snow and prevent the player from sliding when
playing. However, over the next two years the
FIVB and CEV will work with their suppliers
to develop specific equipment and uniforms
for snow volleyball. Snow Volleyball Night is
another opportunity to gather feedback from
experienced, world-class athletes, and find out
more about what is needed to optimise comfort
and performance in winter conditions.
Do snow volleyball players wear special clothes?
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• The inaugural CEV Snow Volleyball European Championships will be held in Wagrain-Kleinarl and Flachau
in Austria from March 23 to 25, 2018.
• Over three days of competition, 24 teams from each gender will compete for a top prize of €10,000.
2018 CEV SNOW VOLLEYBALL EUROPEAN TOUR
2018 CEV SNOW VOLLEYBALL NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
2018 CEV SNOW VOLLEYBALL EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Date Country Venue
12 - 14 January Turkey Erciyes (TUR)
17 - 18 February Italy Roccaraso (ITA)
23 - 25 February Georgia Bakuriani (GEO)
1 - 4 March Turkey Uludag (TUR)
9 - 11 March Slovenia Kranjska Gora (SLO)
16 - 18 March Italy Plan de Corones / Kronplatz (ITA)
Date Country Venue
06 - 07 January Russia Zelenogorsk (RUS)
20 January Austria Zell am See - Kaprun (AUT)
20 - 21 January Armenia Tsaghkadzor (ARM)
20 - 21 January Croatia Platak, Rijeka (CRO)
20 - 21 January Lithuania Jonava Sports & Recreation Center (LTU)
27 - Jan Latvia Sigulda (LAT)
03 - 04 February Ukraine Shostka City (UKR)
09 - 11 February Turkey Artvin (TUR)
09 - 11 February Hungary Epleny Skiarena (HUN)
16 - 18 February Germany Winterberg (GER)
17 - Feb Czech Republic Spindleruv Mlyn (CZE)
18 - Feb Switzerland Engelberg (SUI)
24 - Feb Slovakia Strbske Pleso (SVK)
24 - 25 February Greece Kalavrita Ski resort (GRE)
26 - 27 February Georgia Bakuriani (GEO)
02 - 04 March Norway Gaustadtoppen Skisenter (NOR)
03 - 04 March Slovenia Ziri (SLO)
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PRESSCONTACTS
Communications Department
Email: press@fivb.org
Telephone: +41 21 345 35 35
www.fivb.com
Communications Department
Email: communication@cev.lu
Telephone: +352 25 46 46 37
www.cev.lu
Mr Wolfgang Eichler
Austria House
Email: eichler@nwms.at
Telephone: +43 664 2769084
FIVB press contact
CEV press contact
Onsite press contact
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