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Inline speed skating is the roller sport of racing on inline skates. The sport may also be called inline racing or speed skating by participants. Although it primarily evolved from racing on traditional roller skates , the sport is similar enough to ice speed skating that many competitors are known to switch between inline and ice speed skating ...
Like joining Bonnie Blair as the only U.S. woman to repeat as Olympic champion in speed skating, perhaps. Jackson got her start in inline skating, winning dozens of national titles and multiple ...
Speed skating is a sport that has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the inaugural Games in 1924. [1] Events held at the first Winter Olympics included the men's 500-metre, 1500-metre, 5000-metre, and 10,000-metre races.
Erin Jackson (born September 19, 1992) [1] is an American speed skater, roller derby player, and Olympic gold medalist. Jackson is the first Black woman to win a Winter Olympic gold medal in an individual sport. [2] She qualified for The World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland, where she competed in inline speed skating in
FIRS World Championships of inline speed skating go back to the 1980s, [18] but many world champions, such as Derek Parra and Chad Hedrick, have switched to ice in order to win Olympic medals. Like roller skating, ice speed skating was also professional in North America.
Kelly Gunther (born August 14, 1987) is an American speed skater who participated in the 2014 Winter Olympics. She began roller skating at age six, briefly tried figure skating, then took up inline speed skating. As an inline skater, she won multiple World Championship gold medals on the United States relay team.
On the programme for the 2022 World Games there were four roller sports disciplines: Artistic, Inline hockey, Speed Skating Road and Speed Skating track. Roller sports is the only sport on the World Games programme represented in three clusters. Speed Skating belongs to "Trend Sports", Artistic to "Artistic Sports" and Inline Hockey to "Ball ...
Causil switched to compete in speed skating as inline skating was not on the Olympic program. [6] Causil became the first speed skater from South America to qualify for the Winter Olympics. He skated in the 500 and 1000 metres events at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. [7] [8] [9]