World skate
| World skate | |
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| Founded | 1924 |
| Place of foundation | Montreux |
| president | Sabatino Aracu |
| Members | 127 |
| Association headquarters |
Lausanne , Switzerland Av, De Rhodanie, 54 |
| Official languages) | English France |
| Homepage | www.worldskate.org |
World Skate (formerly: Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports FIRS) is the international umbrella organization for various roller sports , in particular roller hockey , figure skating , inline skating and inline hockey . The association comprises around 100 national associations and five continental associations. He was recognized by the International Olympic Committee in mid-1960 and is a member of ARISF and the World Sports Association Sportaccord .
history
The association was founded in April 1924 in Montreux , Switzerland, as Federation Internationale de Patinage a Roulettes (FIPR) by Fred Renkewitz and Otto Myer, then IOC chancellor. Founding members were Switzerland, France, England and Germany, Fred Renkewitz became the first president (1924–1960). The purpose of the association was to organize international competitions in roller hockey .
Under the presidency of the Spaniard Victoriano Oliveras de la Riva (1964 to 1973), the FIPR changed its name to Fédération Internationale de Roller Skating (FIRS). In the mid-1960s, the association was recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the international umbrella organization for roller sports . In June 2000 the FIRS replaced the word skating in their name with sports .
In September 2017, the association merged with the International Skateboarding Federation , changed its name to “World Skate” and moved its headquarters from Rome to Lausanne, but de jure it was a takeover.
World championships
The first World Cup in roller hockey took place in 1936 in Stuttgart instead, the first world championship in rolling high speed a year later in 1937 in Monza , Italy. In 1947, the FIPR held the first world roller figure skating championship in Washington , USA. Since then, the FIRS World Championships in these three disciplines have taken place regularly. The FIRS organized the first inline hockey world championship in 1995 in Chicago , USA.
In 2017 the "World Roller Games" took place for the first time, in which around 4,000 athletes from over 50 nations took part. The athletes from Colombia won the most gold medals.
See also
- International Ice Hockey Federation
- International Inline Skater Hockey Federation ( Inline Skater Hockey -Föderation)
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- ↑ homepage World Kate
- ↑ according to Spiegel Otto Mayer
- ↑ http://www.worldskate.org/about/about-world-skate.html according to the World Skate website