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Altitude world record for playing Volleyball internationally
- Updated: May 4, 2016
Sochi, Russia, May 4, 2016 – A world record for playing Volleyball at altitude was set here Wednesday when men’s and women’s teams from France, Qatar and Russian competed at 2,320 meters (7,612 feet) at the highest point of the “Rosa Khutor” ski resort in Sochi.
The exhibition “Snow” Volleyball match was played as a side event for this week’s FIVB World Tour Sochi Open tournament at the Sport Inn where 48 men’s and women’s matches were played. The exhibition was also used to test the framework for the preparations for the “Rosa Khutor» stage of Snow Volleyball European Championship in 2017.
A new kind of sport, Snow Volleyball which earned official status from European Volleyball Confederation in 2016 while the CEV Snow Volleyball tour has been held in three countries. Snow Volleyball rules are very similar to the rules of Beach Volleyball – playground …
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