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Artistic Roller Skating in the United Kingdom
Known at International level since February 2009 as Roller Figure Skating

Items of interest concerning Artistic Skating that come to the attention of
the British Roller Sports Federation will be posted to this page.

The discipline of artistic skating is administered within Great Britain by
the Federation of Artistic Roller Skating (FARS) Website : www.fars.co.uk

To access a list of FARS clubs across the UK click here

A report on the 2008 European Senior & Junior Artistic Roller Skating Championships can be read here.

From: The BRSF Newsdesk Friday, 21 May 2010
Updated, Wednesday 26 May 2010
  British Roller Figure Skaters

Competing in a European Roller Dance Competition in Italy

GB artistic roller skating squad off to Italy

On Thursday 20th May a team of 36 roller dance skaters as well as their coaches and supporters set out for Italy to take part in the 8th International Roller Dance competition for solo dancers in Pieris, northern Italy.

The competition will involve skaters from Italy, Great Britain, France and Portugal.

Solo roller dance is a discipline which was developed because of a lack of male partners for couples dance, and now often has more competitors than any other form of artistic roller skating.

The competition start at 'Mini' (see below) and work through a number of age groupings up to Senior.

Both boys & girls compete together in Mini through to Junior competitions, whilst ladies & men compete separately in the senior competitions.

Age groups in Artistic Roller Skating are Mini, (under 10 years on 1st January), Espoir (under 12), Cadet (U14), Youth (U16), Junior (U19) & Senior 19 and older.
The British Roller Sports Federation wish these skaters every success this weekend.

Where is Pieris? view a Google Map here
Pieris Artistic Roller Skating Club : website
Italian Roller Skating Federation : website
Federation Artistic Roller Skating : website

From: Federation Artistic Roller Skating Updated: Wednesday, 26 May 2010
The results for this competition are now available on the Federation Artistic Roller Skating website here

From: CBBC (Childrens BBC) Wednesday, 28 October 2009
British Artistic Skaters take part in
2009 Cup of Europe
Luso, Portugal		  

Kaylee & Ursula
both Mini (U10) Skaters from the Downlands Artistic Roller Skating Club, Swindon
represented Great Britain at the recent "2009 Cup of Europe" competition.

Kaylee skated in the Mini Solo Dance Class & Ursula skated in the Mini Free Class

Ursula has submitted a video of her competition program (1' 46") and her story to the CBBC website, the opening paragraphs are reproduced below.

I joined an artistic roller skating club when I was five and started to do competitions with them.

Artistic roller skating is just like ice skating on wheels. You perform the same jumps and spins to music. I love performing in front of an audience.

I sometimes get a bit nervous in case I fall. You have to be brave to jump with only a thin costume to protect you.

To be a champion takes lots of practice and I have to get up early each day and practice before school.
>> >> to read the rest of Ursula's story and to view her video click here

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© Raniero Corbelletti

connect to the CBBC website here
connect to the Downlands Artistic Rloller Skating club website here
connect to the Federation of Artistic Roller Skating (FARS) website here
connect to the Official Photographer (Raniero Corbelletti) website here

From: Various sources Sunday, 19 July 2009
Updated Sunday, 26 July 2009
Click here to access the World Games website ROLLER SPORTS & THE WORLD GAMES

Britain's Senior Pairs Champions Take Part

 Click here to access the World Games, Results Page

British Roller Skaters at the World Games

Great Britain's Senior Roller Pairs Skating Champions, Darren Dyke & Kirsty Chick
are participating at the World Games currently taking Place in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

What are The World Games?
The World Games, first held in 1981, are an international multi-sport event, meant for sports that are not contested in the Olympic Games. The World Games are organised and governed by the International World Games Association (IWGA), under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). More information

Roller Sports at the World Games
Three roller sport disciplines have been selected for participation in the 2009 World Games currently being held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Artistic Roller Skating, Roller Speed Skating and Inline Hockey. The Technical Committees of the Fédération International de Roller Sports have organised which individuals/ teams shall represent these three disciplines.

Great Britain's participation
Darren Dyke & Kirsty Chick of the Pheonix Artistic Roller Skating Club, Guernsey, are representing Great Britain at these World Games. Their event is scheduled to commence at 20:00, (local time) on Tuesday 21 July.

World Games Website
To access the World Games, Home Page click here
To access the World Games, Main Schedule Page click here
To access the World Games, Artistic Skating Information Page click here
To access the World Games, Speed Skating Information Page click here
To access the World Games, Inline Hockey Information Page click here

To access the Phoenix Artistic Roller Skating Club website click here

Where is Kaohsiung? click here to open a map

Darren Dyke & Kirsty Chick achieve fourth place

The final placements were:

1st - Gabriele Gasparini, Enrica Gasparini (ITA)
2nd - Ayelen Morales Constantino, Oscar Molins Ruiz (ESP)
3rd - Jonathan Cross, Erin Ovens (USA)
4th - Darren Dyke, Kirsty Chick (GBR)
5th - Yuri Marcela Cruz, Cesar Leonardo Parrado (COL)
6th - Yi-an Lu, Jia-shiang Yang (TPE)

This story was updated Sunday, 26 July 2009


From: The Federation of Artistic Roller Skating Tuesday, 6 January 2009
click this icon to access the FARS website Federation of Artistic Roller Skating

Re-designed Website Published


The Federation of Artistic Roller Skating
have published their newly designed website.
The President, of the Federation of Artistic Roller Skating, Ron Gibbs
has placed a message of thanks on the Home Page, to all those involved in the design of the new site,
as well as placing on record his thanks to the designer of the previous website.

To visit the redesigned website and to explore the content.
click here

From: FIRS World Roller Figure Skating Championships

Monday, 1 December 2008
  British Senior Dance Champions
Represent Great Britain at the
53rd Senior World Roller Figure Skating Championships
Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei November 2008 		 

The British Roller Sports Federation wish to congratulate
Darren Dyke & Kirsty Chick
in their success at representing Great Britain during the
Senior World Roller Figure Skating Championships,
held in Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei over the past few days.

Darren & Kirsty's home club is the Phoenix Artistic Roller Skating Club in the Channel Island of Guernsey and there are two comprehensive reports on the club website . The earlier report which describes Darren & Kirsty's passage through the British Championships, which culminated in their selection to represent Great Britain at both "The European's" and "The World's", is actually the second report on the website. The more recent report describes their time at the World Championships.

The earlier report starts with the following paragraph:

A small team of skaters from the Phoenix Artistic Roller Skating Club have just returned from the 2008 Junior & Senior British Roller Skating Championships held in Haywards Heath, Kent. Senior Couple Darren Dyke and Kirsty Chick, following their four year partnership, finally reaped the benefit of all the hard training and commitment by winning the Senior Dance title.
to read both of these reports click here and read both reports in reverse order.

From FIRS Website Sunday, 16 November 2008

Artistic World Championships 2008 - Inline and Show
November 16, 2008
By Nicola Genchi - Comite International de Patinage Artistique (CIPA)

Great show in the I-SHOU stadium.

It was the time for Inline skating and show. The Inline skating is clearly improving year by year and that's a good thing for the roller sports.

Italy is leading in the ladies while France in the mens. But the long programme will decide the final result.

In the Small Show Competition Italy won its first gold medal followed by Spain and then Italy again. Three completely different shows with different content but very exciting.

The competition reached its top exciting level with the large group competition. After five years the Spanish team let the gold medal to Italy.

The show was amazing. Italy gold medal enjoyed us with a happy and joyful show with the Jokers. Very particular also the Spanish programme interpreting the Clouds in the sky: very well skated and presented. Third show always from Italy, Pinocchio. The costumes and the final result on the rink was really amazing.

For this days results click here

From: BRSF Reporter

20 October 2008
click to access CERS website European Committee of Artistic Roller Skating
Senior & Junior
Artistic Roller Skating Championship 2008
Fuengirola, Andaluceia, Spain

An article by the BRSF roving reporter

The 2008 Junior & Senior Artistic Roller Skating Championships were held in the town of
Fuengirola, Costa del Sol, Spain Monday 22 September ~ Saturday 27 September 2008.

Click for bigger image Click for bigger image The Venue was a local authority sports hall, with raised seating for 420 spectators on each side of the hall. All the usual sports hall floor markings having been removed and replaced with a series of "8's".

Monday, 22/09 was the registration and practice day. Having never seen skaters practising their figures of eight, it was fascinating to see what the skaters were doing and how they were doing it!

Tuesday, 23/09 was the first of the competition days. In the morning the Junior Ladies & Junior Men's 'Figures' competitions, with the associated medal ceremony, the afternoon was .. .. .. ..
This story was updated on 31 October 2008.
To read the full story click here.


From: Alumwell Artistic Roller Skating Club

Sunday, 06 April 2008
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Alumwell Open Roller Skating Gala

Alumwell Enterprise & Business College
Walsall, West Midlands

Saturday, 10 May 2008

Alumwell Artistic Roller Skating Club are pleased to announce
the Alumwell Open Roller Skating Gala 2008
Under permit from FARS
To be held at the Alumwell Enterprise & Business College
Primley Avenue, Walsall ~ near M6, J10
Saturday, 10 May 2008
the start time will be announced when the number of competitors is known

Spectators & Supporters are welcome

The Closing Date for competitor entries is Monday 7th April 2008

This event is now well established in the yearly calendar of artistic roller skating events
and has built up a reputation as an event for both novice and competent skaters
with competitors attending from clubs across Great Britain.

To read more about this event click here


International Roller Sports Federation FIRS Saturday, 10 November 2007

Artistic Roller World Championships 2007

Gold Coast, Australia

31 October ~ 10 November 2007


For all the results connect to this page.

For video clips of some of the presentations connect to this page.

C.S.C. Roncadelle Skating Club, Brescia, Italia Updated: Thursday, 09 August 2007
C.S.C. RONCADELLE SKATING CLUB
Brescia, Italy

2° “REMO MARCHINI” MEMORIAL ~ INTERNATIONAL SOLO DANCE TROPHY

Date: 15-16 September 2007

The C.S.C. Roncadelle Skating Club of Brescia, Italy are pleased to issue an open invitation for the 2° “REMO MARCHINI” Memorial, International Solo Dance Trophy, which is to be held at the Centro Sportivo Comunale di Roncadelle, in the town of Brescia, on Saturday & Sunday 16 & 17 September 2007

Venue
 The Rink ~ Centro Sportivo Comunale di Roncadelle, is located at Via G. di Vittorio 32, is 22m x 44m and has a parquet floor ~ click here for a map of the area.

Competition Rules
 The trophy competition will be conducted according to the FIHP - CEPA technical rules for solo dance.

Registration:
 Registrations should be sent to C.S.C. Roncadelle Skating Club:
land mail: Via G. di Vittorio 32 – 25030 Roncadelle (BS) Italy, or by email
before the 1 September 2007. Showing the competitors first & last name, date of birth,
categories and statement sanitary sheet fully signed by the chief in charge.

It’s extremely important to include a return e-mail address for replies.

Fees:
 To be confirmed.

Program:
 A program of events will be sent to all club participants after the registrations are closed.

Prizes:
 All the members will take part in their own individual competition, then they will be subdivided by draw into teams of 5 athletes, to share one additional final prize. Every team will obtain a score depending of the place of each members, please, see the follow schedule:

Place 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Score 15 13 11 8.5 8 7.5 7 6.5 6 5.5 5 4.5

The Champion Team will receive a cash prize.
 Skaters not included in a definitive team, will be included in an additional team.
These skaters will take part in the competition but, is made according to the date of receiving of
inscription at the Trophy. If an athlete does not present himself in the team, he will be replace from one
person in the reserve (the firs member). The team formation will be communicated at the beginning of competition.

Competitions:
 National categories: (Minis, Espoir, Prom A, Prom B, Prom C, Prom D) will have compulsory dances.

International categories:
Minis: ~ compulsory dances.
Cadet & Youth: ~ will have only OSP
Espoir, Junior & Senior: ~ will have only the fee dance.

Organisation:
C.S.C.R. Skating Club
Via G. Di Vittorio 32
25030 Roncadelle (BS) Italy
cscrskatingclub@yahoo.it		 Chief Executive:
Romano Giuseppina
Via Aldo Moro 8
25030 Roncadelle (BS) Italy

Connect to club website click here, then click Comunicati and follow links.

From: Comité Européen de Patinage Artistique (C.E.P.A.) Monday, 22 January 2007

Confédération Européenne de Roller Skating (CERS)

Comité Européen de Patinage Artistique (CEPA)

European Calendar of Figure Skating 2007

To download the 2007 calendar of European Artistic events click here
 this link downloads an Acrobat pdf file from the CERS website

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