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The World Skate Games (formerly World Roller Games) are an international biennial
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, comprising all the world roller sport disciplines as regulated by the
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international federation. The games involve 11 World Championships in one multi-sport event. Due to the
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, World Skate banned Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials from its competitions, and will not stage any events in Russia or Belarus in 2022. Ÿ–‰


Disciplines

The 2022 World Skate Games include the following disciplines:
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* Slalom * Downhill and
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* Roller freestyle">Roller Freestyle: street, vert, park * Skate Cross Scooter * Scooter street * Scooter park


Editions


2017 World Roller Games

The 2017 World Roller Games was the first edition of the World Roller Games. It took place from August 27, 2017, to September 10, 2017, in Nanjing, China. It comprised the World Championships in 10 disciplines. Sixty one countries were represented at the games, with Colombia topping the medals table with 25 gold medals, followed by Italy with 20 gold medals then France with 10. This event included the World Championships of 10 Roller Sports during a 15-day skating festival: 10 sports, 61 national federations, 193 national teams, and over 3000 athletes.


2019 World Roller Games

The 2019 World Roller Games was the second edition of the World Roller Games. It took place from June 29, 2019, to July 14, 2019, in
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, Spain. It comprised the World Championships in 11 disciplines. Eighty one countries were represented at the games with a total of 4,120 athletes competing. In total, the 11 days of the World Roller Games were held in front of 140,000 fans. Italy topped the medal table with 21 golds, 18 silver and 24 bronze. Colombia also won 21 golds but their 16 silver and six bronze left them second.


2022 World Skate Games

Argentina was chosen to host the 2021 World Roller Games. The World Skate Executive Board, that met on 30 April 2019, unanimously entrusted Argentina with the task of organizing the World Skate Games that will take place in
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between October and November 2021. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the event was postponed from 2021 to 2022, and will be held October 24 to November 13. The opening ceremony held in Buenos Aires and the closing ceremony in San Juan. With the increased importance of skateboarding within the international federation World Skate, the event now goes under the name World Skate Games, and covers skateboarding, roller skating and scooter.


2024 World Skate Games

The 2024 World Skate Games were held in
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from 6 to 22 September 2024.


References


External links


World Skate website
{{DEFAULTSORT:World Roller Games Multi-sport events Biennial sporting events Recurring sporting events established in 2017