On March 9 the winter sports station of Boí Taüll It will host the second edition of an event that was played for the first time and caused a great impact among the participants, the followers and followers of volleyball, the skiers of the station and the media. It is about VOLUÑA CHAMPIONSHIP OF VOLOY SNOW, Organized by the Catalan Volleyball Federation, which this year will gather a total of ten teams in a spectacular test that changes the sand of the beach for the snow of the mountain.
This second edition of the Catalunya Championship of Volleyo Snow is raised as a challenge to consolidate an event that attracted a large number of athletes last year and that this course has also aroused a lot of expectation among volleyball players. A total of ten teams will participate with the aim of proclaiming champions of Catalonia.
Although in our territory, Volleyo Snow is a very unknown modality, at the European level it even has official competition calendar and, in fact, the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) wants to expand this discipline worldwide in the not too distant future.
A little history of the volleyball snow
The growing interest that this sports discipline is experiencing in recent years has materialized with an official competition calendar at the European level, organized by the European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) where the main selections of the continent participate. In addition, during the celebration of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games (South Korea) and Beijing 2022 (China), demonstrations of volleyball snow were held to be able to establish it in the official program of the Winter Olympic Games in the near future. In this sense, the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) has made a future plan to expand this modality through a worldwide circuit worldwide.
The first known competitions in the Nevada discipline were carried out in the 1990s in Austria and Switzerland, although it was not until 2008 when it began to popularize as a sports test in Wagrain (Austria). In 2015, the CEV incorporated the snow volleyball into its official calendar
