Historia del Patinaje Dominicano
Article published on the official Web site
of the Dominican Republic Roller Sports Federation.
History of the Dominican Roller Sports Federation
Roller skating according to people's stories from the
time of 1910 and 1930, in Santiago de los Caballeros was
practiced on a tobacco ranch. These ranches were used by
tobacco growers to dry tobacco, it is believed that merchants
of the time who bought merchandise in Europe, where roller
skating was developed for that time, brought hockey and
artistic that were the form of skating that was practiced
as organized sport in Europe.
We believe that the children of the merchants of Santiago
brought this type of artifact, (skate) that they mounted
and rolled so beautifully and danced; It is said that every
afternoon many people gathered to witness those young people
skating in a ranch (warehouse) that was on the street of the
barranca today called Circumvalation Avenue near
February 27 Avenue. The skates that were used were made
of wood later They were made of tin and time went by
and another businessman, Mr. Digno Rijo, opened the
skating rink in 1980, a place for recreation and
entertainment for young people, already with a
more modern skate with four solid rubber wheels
and a rubber boot. leather; a year later, another
center opened in the capital of the Dominican Republic,
which was called world on wheels.this was another
place of entertainment and recreation for the young capitaleños.
For the year 1993 Professor Austo Rafael Arias Peralta and
a group of enthusiastic sports leaders including
José Rafael Cruz, Víctor Rojas, Dionisio Burgos,
Miguelina Camacho among others, organized the
Dominican Skating Federation.
In 1994, the International Skating Federation recognized
the Dominican Skating Federation with all rights, but
despite the efforts made by the federation to
participate in some world skating championships,
it was in 1999 for the first time that a skater of
ours participates in the world speed skating in
Barranquilla Colombia, with the help of the
Pan American Skating Confederation, being the
participation of the athlete Dionisio Burgos
the first time that a Dominican skater rides
a five-wheel skate for organized world competitions.
Then in 2001 our federation took for the first time to the
Pan-American skating championship, Cartagena de Indias
Colombia, a delegation of skaters that was made up
of an In-Line Hockey team made up of the following players-
RAUL SÁNCHEZ MATIAS, MIGUEL ESTRELLA, RAFAEL MARTINEZ CABA,
ALBERTO NÚÑEZ, DOMINGO PIERRET OLIVO, ANTONIO ESTRELLA,
ANGEL LUIS SANTANA, MIGUEL RODRÍGUEZ, MANUEL ESTRELLA,
RAUL POLANCO. AS COACH THE SENOR -
ANTONIO ESTRELLA (TONI) AND THE NORTH AMERICAN- ANTUAN BROOKS.
In Speed we were represented by FELIX MATEO, OSCAR
ROBERTO VALLEJO, and DIONISIO BURGOS. AND AUSTO RAFAEL
ARIAS AS DELEGATE.
For the 2002 we had for the first time in a games of the
Olympic family the Central American Games of El Salvador.
We went with 4 partidores who were: Félix Mateo, Karina
Rodríguez, Alberto Núñez., Miguel Estrella. Coach-
Antonio Estrella and as delegate AUSTO R ARIAS PERALTA.
DOMINICAN SKATERS PARTICIPATED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE
PAN AMERICAN GAMES OF SANTO DOMINGO 2003 WITH AN INLINE,
SPEED, ARTISTIC HOCKEY TEAM.
In 2004 we were in Fresno California at the World Figure
Skating World Cup
with MIGUEL \ ESTRELLA and KEIRY SURIEL.
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