Freestyle Slalom Inline Skating
Freestyle Slalom Inline Skating is a variety of inline skating that involves performing tricks around a straight line of equally spaced cones. Freestylers mostly use inline skates, though some use quad skates.
Cones are placed in a line, evenly spaced. The most common spacing used between the cones in competitions is 80 centimeters (31 inches), with larger competitions also featuring lines spaced at 50 centimeters (20 inches) and 120 centimeters (47 inches). The inline wheels can be configured in a rocker set-up, with one wheel larger than the others.
Freestyle Slalom Inline SkatingMore casual freestyle skating can take place on the street. For competitions, in freestyle slalom skating each skater has two minutes to present a prepared performance, with music, to a panel of judges. The skaters are awarded points for technical difficulty and artistic merit.
Variations:
- Speed Slalom: skaters race against each other in head-to-head rounds to see how fast each skater can skate on one foot through a line of 20 cones.
- Jump: skaters jump over a high jump bar from flat ground, without the use of a ramp. The current world champion jumps over 5 feet.
Freestyle Inline Skating at the World Games
Freestyle Inline Skating is one of the sport that was featured at the 2025 Chengdu World Games. There are two types of Inline Freestyle Skating - Slalom Classic and Speed Slalom.
Athletes skate through a series of cones, laid in a line on a flat, hard surface. They perform many kinds of slalom moves and tricks while skating. In Classic Slalom, the athletes skate to a musical arrangement, and the judges assign scores on the base of technical and artistic criteria. But, in Speed Slalom, the fastest athlete who runs through the course wins.
Here are the medalists who won gold at the 2025 Chengdu Freestyle Inline Skating event:
| Event | Medal | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's Classic Slalom | Gold | ZHANG Hao | China |
| Women's Classic Slalom | Gold | ZHU Siyi | China |
| Women's Speed Slalom | Gold | LIU Chiao-Hsi | Taiwan |
| Men's Speed Slalom | Gold | ZHANG Hao | China |
Similar Sports
- Aggressive Inline Skating — involves grins, airs, cess slides, to/heel rolls and other advance skating techniques.
- Inline Skating — also known as roller blading, a variety of sports performed while wearing skates with two to five polyurethane wheels arranged in a single line.
- Inline Speed Skating — athletes use inline skates to race around tracks
Related Pages
- List of Roller Sports
- Complete list of sports
- The Encyclopedia of Sports — a list of every sport from around the world.
- Roller Sports at the Olympics
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