Luxembourg, March 3, 2020.  Welcome to today’s issue of Snow Weekly, CEV’s digest of news from the exciting world of Snow Volleyball, set to come out every Tuesday throughout the CEV European Tour season.

SNOWSTORM

• The CEV announced an unprecedented amount of €100,000 in prize money for EuroSnowVolley 2020 in St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria, the highest ever for a Snow Volleyball competition of any kind. Read more…




SNOWFLAKES

• The teams of Dinamo-Tatarstan Kazan (Anastasiia Pavlova, Arina Iarantceva, Elizaveta Novikova and Olga Motrich) and Ural Ufa (Aleksei Dorofeev, Aleksei Mudretsov, Tolmaz Hasanov and Viktor Ilyin) won gold at last weekend’s Kazan stop on the Russian Snow Volleyball National Tour for women and men, respectively. Find out more...




SNOWMAN
Presenting Snow Volleyball star Piotr Groszek

Piotr Groszek was born on January 2, 1994 in Rzeszow, Poland. He got into Volleyball when he was 16 years old. At the age of 19 he started playing Beach Volleyball and a couple of years later, about five years ago he discovered Snow Volleyball. He earned his first international Snow Volleyball medal in 2017, bronze at the CEV European Tour stop in Spyndleruv Mlyn. At his next appearance on the Tour, in March 2017 in Disentis, Switzerland, he reached the semifinals. Groszek has not missed a single CEV Snow Volleyball tournament ever since. He took part in the first edition of EuroSnowVolley at Wagrain-Kleinarl & Flachau 2018 finishing ninth. After the sport adopted the three-a-side format in late 2018, Piotr and his Polish teammates reached the semifinals in the European Tour three more times, with the 2019 St. Anton silver as their best result. They also claimed bronze at the second World Tour stop, at Plan de Corones / Kronplatz 2019. Since August 2019, Groszek has also appeared at five FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour events, with two ninth-place finishes as his best results so far.  Piotr Groszek is 191 cm tall and has a spike reach of 340 cm. He is currently at number nine in the CEV Snow Volleyball European Ranking.


Piotr Groszek spikes against Italy during the victorious semifinal at St. Anton 2019

Piotr Groszek: “I am Piotr Groszek and I am on the Snow Volleyball national team of Poland. As kid, I tried all sorts of sports - Football, Swimming, Tennis - until I came into Volleyball, which I had at school at the beginning. With Snow Volleyball it is a funny story. I was browsing the internet looking for some interesting tournaments and from one video to another I found the highlights of the 2013 tournament in Wagrain. A few weeks later I put the Football shoes on and jumped onto the snow field. I have been playing Snow Volleyball for over five years and I am into my sixth season now. My first two seasons with Snow Volleyball were not the best, but in 2017 I achieved my first success, my first medal - bronze in Czechia. Then, I was in the fight for the King of the Snow title until the end of the season. 2018 was equally successful, but 2019 will forever be remembered in my memory - Polish champion, bronze medal at the World Tour stop in Kronplatz and silver at the final event on the European Tour! My goals for the current season include medals at the European Championship and the World Tour events. My biggest Snow Volleyball dream is to take part in the World Championship and the Olympic Games and win a medal there.”




SNOW TOPS




SNOW PATH

• The fourth double-gender stop on the CEV Snow Volleyball European Tour 2020 is set to take place this week, from March 6 through 8, in Tarvisio in the northeastern corner of Italy. 15 men’s and 7 women’s teams from nine different countries have signed up to participate. Follow the event here...

• The national championship of Austria is scheduled on Saturday and Sunday in Turracher Hoehe. Find out more...

• The national championship of Germany in Oberstaufen will also be held on Saturday and Sunday. Find out more...

• The second stop on the first French Snow Volleyball Tour will take place in Gresse-en-Vercors from Friday through Sunday. Find out more...

• The Snow Battle Semmering tournament will be held on Saturday in Gloggnitz, Austria. Find out more...

• The traditional Full Moon Snow Volleyball tournament is set to happen in Kouvola, Finland on March 7, celebrating its 20th anniversary. Find out more...


A beautiful shot from Full Moon 2017 in Finland


SNOW SHOVEL

• A voting contest between Snow Volleyball and Beach Volleyball teams in Switzerland! Check it out:




SNOW SPARKLES






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