The Inline Speed Skating World Championships (World Roller Speed Skating Championships) are
inline speed skating
Roller speed skating is the roller sport of racing on inline skates. The sport may also be called ''inline racing'' or ''speed skating'' by participants. Although it primarily evolved from racing on traditional roller skates, the sport is simila ...
competitions sanctioned by
World Skate
World Skate is the only governing body in the world for all sports performed on skating wheels. The organisation is the successor of the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports (FIRS) founded on 21 April 1924.
Disciplines
World Skate ser ...
. The World Championships have been held unofficially since 1937 and officially since 1966.
their format has changed over the years.
European nations, in particular
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...
, have dominated the competition in its first 40 years. The
United States
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have had a stint of dominance during the 1980s, 90s and 2000s. In the 2010s,
Colombia
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has been the dominant force in the championship, winning the general podium throughout the whole decade.
The championship has had many changes, but it has always focused mainly on road and track disciplines. In 1992, the introduction of
inline skates
Inline skates are boots with wheels arranged in a single line from front to back, allowing one to move in an ice skate-like fashion. Inline skates are technically a type of roller skates, roller skate, but most people associate the term rolle ...
caused a major technological impact after decades of using traditional
quad skates
Roller skates are boots with wheels mounted to the bottom, allowing the user to travel on hard surfaces similarly to an ice skater on ice. The first roller skate was an inline skate design, effectively an ice skate with a line of wheels replac ...
.
Due to the
Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...
, World Skate banned Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials from its competitions, and will not stage any events in Russia or Belarus in 2022.
[ Inline Speed Skating World Junior Championships
* World Inline Cup
* European Inline Speed Skating Championships
]
References
External links
Speed Skating at World Skate
* http://www.online-skating.com/events-16693-2017-world-master-inline-speed-skating-marathon-championships-in-aquila-italy.html
* http://www.online-skating.com/events-16498-2016-edition-of-the-world-roller-speed-skating-championships-in-nanjing-china.html
* https://web.archive.org/web/20180614000639/http://www.cers-cec.eu/european-championship/
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Annual sporting events
Inline speed skating competitions