Luxembourg, February 11, 2020.  Welcome to this week’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 first sets of CEV Snow Volleyball European Tour 2020 medals were distributed in Tsakhkadzor, Armenia on Wednesday, with Russian teams occupying the entire men’s podium and the top of the women’s podium. The Lithuanian ladies took silver, while the bronze went to one of the Armenian squads. Find out more...

• The second stop on the European Tour, which took place on Saturday and Sunday in Bakuriani, Georgia, produced similar results. All men’s medals and the women’s gold went to Russia. Georgia claimed the women’s silver, while this time Lithuania settled for the bronze. Find out more...

• On Monday, the FIVB announced the dates and the venues of Snow Volleyball World Tour 2020. The first stop will be held from March 12 through 15 in Kayseri-Erciyes, Turkey. The second event will take place in Bariloche, Argentina from August 20 through 23. Read more…




SNOWFLAKES

• The R&S Snow Volleyball tournament was held in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the participation of 12 teams. Bjelasnica, one of the 1984 Winter Olympic venues, hosted the event. Read more...

• 11 men’s and eight women’s teams took part in the national championship of Czechia, held in Spindleruv Mlyn on Saturday. The men’s squad of Frantisek Pihera, Jan Mrkous and Tadeas Trousil and the women’s squad of Anna Siruckova, Ivana Cebakova, Magda Kralikova, Michaela Kulhankova triumphed as Czech champions and earned the right to represent their country at EuroSnowVolley 2020. Find out more...

• The national championship of Poland was announced on Sunday. It will take place in Bialka Tatrzanska from March 20 through 22. Find out more...

• The teams of Tre dei Trentatre and Oki di Ghiaccio won the 3x3 men’s and women’s titles, respectively, at the Mizuno Snow Volley Marathon, which took place from Friday through Sunday in Moena, Italy. The team of La Vecia de Spade triumphed in the 4x4 event. Find out more...




SNOWWOMAN
Presenting Snow Volleyball star Olga Motrich

Olga Motrich was born in Moscow, Russia on July 18, 1988. At the age of 10 she was introduced to indoor Volleyball. At the age of 21 she got into Beach Volleyball and between 2013 and 2018 she played at numerous high-level FIVB World Tour events and CEV tournaments, claiming gold with Svetlana Kholomina at a 2017 CEV EEVZA Satellite in Yantarny. When she was 30, the 190-cm-tall blocker started playing Snow Volleyball. In her very first season on the snow, Motrich won two gold medals on the FIVB World Tour (Wagrain-Kleinarl and Plan de Corones / Kronplatz) and another two on the CEV European Tour (Erciyes and St. Anton am Arlberg), eventually claiming the 2019 Queen of the Snow title. She stormed into her second season on the snow with gold medals at both of the first two European Tour events so far (Tsakhkadzor and Bakuriani), as well as gold at the EEVZA Zonal Eastern European Tour event in Tsakhkadzor. Motrich is the current number one on the women’s individual CEV European Entry Ranking.


Olga Motrich with the Queen of the Snow trophy at St. Anton 2019

Olga Motrich: “My name is Olga Motrich and I was born in Moscow. When I was 10 years old, a coach came to my school and offered me to start practicing indoor Volleyball. At the age of 21 I got into Beach Volleyball and fell in love with this sport! Nine years later, I found my new love – Snow Volleyball. In the autumn of 2018, as I was changing clubs, I was offered to play at the Snow Volleyball European Tour stop in Moscow. At first, I thought this was madness, but I agreed and did not regret it! It was very cold, but the party atmosphere kept us warm. In comparison to Beach Volleyball, the presence of three players on the court makes the game more variable and attractive. Thanks to Snow Volleyball, for the first time in my life I got to visit some winter mountain ski resorts and it was incredibly beautiful! I used to think, what can be better than sea, sun and sand, but now I think that nothing can be more beautiful than the snowy mountains! I am confident that this sport will be Olympic and the general public will fall in love with it. I wish to play at the Olympics with my team and, of course, win gold medals!”




SNOW TOPS






SNOW PATH

• An EEVZA Zonal Eastern European Tour event is set to take place this week in Bakuriani, Georgia. On Tuesday and Wednesday, five men’s and four women’s teams from Armenia, Georgia and Russia will take to the snow in quest for zonal honours. Follow the event here...

• The second event on Snow Volley Italia’s 2020 calendar is scheduled to take place on Saturday and Sunday in Roccaraso, Italy. Find out more...

• A Snow Volleyball - Driven by Jeep tournament will take place at WinterFest 2020 on Friday in Petrosani, Romania. Find out more...

• A SnowVolley 2020 tournament will take place on Saturday and Sunday in Campo Blenio, Switzerland. Find out more...




SNOW SPARKLES




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