Люксембург, 19 февраля 2005
Luxembourg, 19 February 2005

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The opening festivities were brought to a close with a gala dinner and the awarding ceremony of the best European Volleyball and Beach Volleyball players in the Kikuoka Hotel outside of Luxembourg on Saturday night.
2,06m tall Russian Ekaterina Gamova was the first athlete to be honoured that evening. The young Russian won the ‘Best Player 2004’ award in the women’s category following a very successful season with the Russian national team.

But when asked about the best moment in the last year she said: ‘Winning this award is the highlight of the past season.’ In fact, her club Dinamo MOSCOW changed their match schedule to enable their star, accompanied by Alexander Osipov, Vice-President, and Vladimir Zinichev, General Director of Dinamo MOSCOW, to travel to Luxembourg and to accept her award.

Nicole Schnyder-Benoit - the ‘Queen of the Beach 2004’ award.
Winners of Olympic silver in Athens 2004, Javier Bosma and Pablo Herrera - the ‘Kings of the Beach 2004’ award.

Another highlight of the evening was the show of magician and ventriloquist Jacques Albert, who caused true bursts of laughter with his singing puppets (not on photo).