Team Sweden represents

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in women's international

roller derby Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. It is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leaguesA Roller Derby league is synonymous with an individual club or team in other team sports, as ...

. The team was first formed to compete at the 2011

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, and finished the tournament in sixth place. Sweden's first bout was on 8 October 2011, against Team Finland in

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, in what

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claimed was "the world's first Roller Derby bout between two nations". Sweden won by 135 points to 71. One of the team's skaters predicted that Sweden would finish in the top five at the World Cup.Marcus Carlsson,
Skånsk insats i världens första roller derby-VM
, '' Metro Skåne'', 2 December 2012 At the World Cup, Sweden lost their quarter final to

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by 126 points to 80, then beat

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and lost to Finland in the consolations stage, to finish in sixth place.

Team roster

2011 team roster

During the first tryout for the team, three skaters suffered fractures. Nineteen of the team's initial twenty-skater roster came from

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-affiliated leagues, the large majority from the

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and

. The list below is the roster used for Team Sweden's appearance at the

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, with the skaters' league affiliations being those as of at the time of the announcement:

Coaching staff

*Swede Hurt *Mad Maloony *Sloppy Boggins * Fluke Skywalker

References

{{National sports teams of Sweden

Roller derby Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. It is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leaguesA Roller Derby league is synonymous with an individual club or team in other team sports, as ...

Roller derby in Sweden 2011 establishments in Sweden Sports clubs and teams established in 2011