International Federation of Roller Sports Comité International de Rink Hockey 8th Ladies Rink Hockey World Championship San Miguel - Chile 30 September 2006 ~ 7 October 2006

England will be represented at the
8th Ladies Rink Hockey World Championships
by the following players and support staff.

The officers of the British Roller Sports Federation,
on behalf of all British roller sports enthusiasts and supporters
wish these players well during their forthcoming endeavours.

Updated ~ Sunday, 20 August 2006

British Roller Speed Skaters are competing in the 39th International ~ Flanders Grand Prix 2006 Zandvoorde Stadium, Ostend, Belgium Friday 11 ~ Sunday 13 August 2006

The Zandvoorde Roller Club
~ one of the oldest speed roller skating clubs in Belgium ~
is organising the 39^th Flanders Grand Prix, a three day event,
which being held at the Zandvoorde Municipal Stadium.

A number of British Roller Speed Club are sending teams to this event:
South Woodham Ferrers RSC, Team Belotti, Powerslide Racing, Team YMCA.

To read more about the event from the dedicated event website click here
To download the event program click here
 
To see a library of pictures of the 2004 event click here
To see a map of the area click here
 
To connect to the speed skating page on this website click here

 
British Roller Speed Skaters competing in the
2006 European Senior Roller Speed Championships
24 ~ 30 July Cassano D'Adda, Italy

Three British roller speed skaters chosen to represent Great Britain at the 2006 Senior Roller Speed European Championships have arrived in Cassano D'Adda, Italy, (map). These three skaters plus one other will, later in the year, be representing Great Britain at the International Federation of Roller Sports 2006 World Speed Skating Championships, being held in Korea.

This year, for the first time the Confederation of European Roller Skating has combined the European Artistic Skating Championships, the European Rink Hockey Championships and the European Speed Skating Championships into a single festival called the EURO Roller Games 2006, being held in a number of nearby venues in Italy.

The three speed skaters are: Chris Stafford, Vincent Henry, Gavin Pollock

To read more about these British Speed skaters on the Federation of Inline Speed Skating website. click here
To read more about the EURO Roller Games 2006 click here
To read more about the International Federation of Roller Sports 2006 World Speed Skating Championships click here
 

Wednesday, 19 July 2006

International Federation of Roller Sports 2006 Roller Inline Hockey World Championships Detroit, Michigan, USA

British inline hockey players compete in
12^th Men's Roller Inline Hockey World Championship
5^th Women's Roller Inline Hockey World Championship

17 ~ 22 July 2006, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Twelve British Ladies and fourteen British Men are currently representing Great Britain at the International Federation of Roller Sports, 2006 Roller Inline Hockey World Championships being played out in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Also in Detroit are twelve Under 18's, taking part in the FIRS 2006 Junior Roller Inline Hockey World Cup.

Additionally fourteen Under 16's, fourteen Under 14's and fourteen Under 12's, players are taking part in the American Amateur Athletics Union, Inline Hockey "Junior Olympics" taking place in the same sports complex.
 
to read more about this story click here to access the Inline Hockey page on this site
 

ARTISTIC SKATERS SUMMER TRAINING CAMP Ipswich, Suffolk Thursday 10th & Friday 11th August 2006

The British Roller Sports Federation
Coaching Committee

Is pleased to announce a two day Summer Camp on Thursday 10th & Friday 11th August 2006
to be held at the Pipers Vale Gymnastic Centre & the Gainsborough Sports Centre
on Braziers Wood Road, Ipswich.

The aim of the camp is to provide an extended non-competitive event that will enable both skaters and coaches to learn new and to extend existing skills at selected skill levels, while providing an opportunity to develop friendships, respect and camaraderie between skaters and coaches within the artistic skating community.

For more details about this artistic roller skating summer camp click here  

British roller skaters competing in the 
2006 European Cadets Speed Championships &
2006 European Junior Speed Championships

12 ~ 19 July 2006 - Martinsicuro, Italy

Three British roller speed skaters, James Ashby a cadet roller speed skater of Team Belotti, Robert McDonald a Junior roller speed skater of Team Belotti and Matthew Price a Junior roller speed skater of PowerSlide Racing Team are currently representing their country at the 2006 European Cadet & Junior Speed Skating Championships, being held at Martinsicuro, Italy.

For a link to the European Cadets & Junior Speed Championships web site click here

Additional links of interest:
Federation of Inline Speed Skating: http://www.inlinespeed.co.uk 
PowerSlide Racing: http://www.powerslide-racing.co.uk
Confédération Européenne de Roller Skating: http://cerskating.eu
International Committee de Course: http://www.cic-roller.com/eng/index.shtml 
 

Confederation of European Roller Skating

Have launched a new website

http://cerskating.eu

From: Sabatino Aracu - President FIRS 
 
It is my great pleasure to inform you that, after several months of hard work, we are now ready to launch the first web TV dedicated to roller sports. Soon after my election, my staff and I focused our actions on increasing the value of our sport within the IOC parameters in order to obtain the best appreciation for our insertion in the Olympic Games. We deemed that television, most powerful media, could represent, for our purposes, a precious and priority added value.
 
To read more click here