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A collection of articles about skating in the Dominican Republic. See also more about Dominican Republic Skating, about Skating in Panamerica and about Skating World Wide.

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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