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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–‰


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The_2022_World_Skate_Games_include_the_following_disciplines: Skateboarding
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The_2022_World_Skate_Games_include_the_following_disciplines: Skateboarding
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The_2022_World_Skate_Games_include_the_following_disciplines: Skateboarding
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*_Downhill_and_Street_luge">Street_Luge_ Street_luge_is_an_extreme_gravity-powered_activity_that_involves_riding_a_street_luge_board_(sometimes_referred_to_as_a_sled)_down_a_paved_road_or_course._Street_luge_is_also_known_as_land_luge_or_road_luge._Like_skateboarding,_street_luge_is_o_...
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The_2022_World_Skate_Games_include_the_following_disciplines: Skateboarding
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The_2022_World_Skate_Games_include_the_following_disciplines: Skateboarding
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Disciplines

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Disciplines

The 2022 World Skate Games include the following disciplines: Skateboarding * Vert skateboarding">Vert Vert or Verts may refer to: * Vert (heraldry), the colour green in heraldry * Vert (music producer) (born 1972), pseudonym of Adam Butler, an English music producer * Vert (river), in southern France * Vert (sport), a competition in extreme vers ...
* Slalom skateboarding">Slalom To slalom is to zigzag between obstacles. It may refer to: Sports ;Alpine skiing and/or snowboarding * Slalom skiing, an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline * Giant slalom, an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline * Super-G ...
* Downhill and Street luge">Street Luge Street luge is an extreme gravity-powered activity that involves riding a street luge board (sometimes referred to as a sled) down a paved road or course. Street luge is also known as land luge or road luge. Like skateboarding, street luge is o ...
Inline / Quad * Inline speed skating">Speed In everyday use and in kinematics, the speed (commonly referred to as ''v'') of an object is the magnitude of the change of its position over time or the magnitude of the change of its position per unit of time; it is thus a scalar quanti ...
: track and road * Artistic roller skating">Artistic Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wh ...
* Inline Downhill * Freestyle slalom skating">Inline Freestyle * Inline Hockey * Roller hockey (quad), Rink hockey * 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
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, 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 Roller sports are sports that use human powered vehicles which use rolling either by gravity or various pushing techniques. Typically ball bearings and polyurethane wheels are used for momentum and traction respectively, and attached to devices or ...
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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, Vicente LΓ³pez and San Juan 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.


References


External links


World Skate website
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