On February 14, 2018, the FIVB and the CEV showcased snow volleyball at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea by hosting Snow Volleyball Night at the Austria House with an exhibition match featuring some of the world’s greatest stars from both volleyball and beach volleyball.
The inaugural 2018 CEV Snow Volleyball European Championships took place from March 23 through 25 in Wagrain-Kleinarl and Flachau in Austria. The continent’s best 24 women’s and 24 men’s teams competed at the birthplace of the sport for the first European champion titles, after six European Tour stops and as many as 17 national championships served as qualifying events. Lithuania’s Ieva Dumbauskaite & Monika Povilaityte and Russia’s Ruslan Daianov & Taras Myskiv became the first-ever European Championship gold medalists for women and for men, respectively.