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A pair of Riedell figure skating boots. Riedell Shoe Inc. was founded in Red Wing, Minnesota, United States, in 1945 by a former Red Wing Shoes employee. [1] The founder, Paul Riedell, [2] wanted to design widely available and affordable ice skates. This task secured him a spot in both the ice and roller skating hall of fame.
The list is sorted by roller skating disciplines (inline speed skating, roller inline hockey, downhill, artistic roller skating), gender and competing nationality. Note that some definitions of roller skating include inline, while others intend to specify quad skates.
Artistic roller skaters skate on quad skates or inline skates (for the inline free skating discipline). Skates consist of four essential parts: boots, plates, wheels, and bearings. Skaters may sometimes use jump bars on their plates for added stability. Free skaters (both quad and inline) have a toe stop on their plates.
Long-track speed skating, usually simply referred to as speed skating, is the Olympic discipline of speed skating where competitors are timed while crossing a set distance. It is also a sport for leisure. Sports such as ice skating marathon, short-track speedskating, inline speedskating, and quad speed skating are also called speed skating.
The design of the quad skate has remained essentially unchanged since then, and remained as the dominant roller skate design until nearly the end of the 20th century. The quad skate has begun to make a comeback recently due to the popularity of roller derby and jam skating. 1900: The Peck & Snyder Company patented an inline skate with two ...
The first roller skate was an inline skate design, effectively an ice skate with a line of wheels replacing the blade. In modern usage, the term typically refers to skates with two pairs of wheels on shared axles like those of skateboards (early versions of which were made using roller skate parts). Skates with this configuration are also known ...