BATTLE DREAMTOWN REPORT

The report of the second battle in Kiev of the 2009 Season: Battle Dream Town, which took place on November 14-15, 2009.

By Chloe Seyres.

PARIS SLALOM WORLD CUP REPORT

The first part of the report of the 2009 Edition of the Paris Slalom World Cup (PSWC):
Summary of the Classics (Individual Classic Freestyle, Speed slalom, and Slides) which took place on May, 29 and 30.

By Chloe Seyres.

OBJECTIVE: CONE

Here is the Report of Battle "Objective: Cone" (first round of the French Slalom Series 2009) which took place in Le Havre during the Weekend de la Glisse Festival, on the 9th and 10th May 2009.

By Chloe Seyres.

ITALIAN ROLLER BATTLE

Report of the 2nd Italian Freestyle Battle of 2009, which took place on the 2 and 3 Mat 2009 at Ancona.
By Close Yr E's

WFSC MOSCOW

Report of the 2009 WSSA European Championship, which took place in Moscow at Adrenalin Skatepark on March, 20-21.

By Chloe Seyres.

BATTLE SPB

Report of the SPB Battle which took place in St. Petersburg on March, 14th '09.

By Chloe Seyres.

ROLLER DAYS

Report of the Roller Days: Battle Mönchengladbach 2nd Edition

by Chloe Seyres.

Battle Africa, Dakar 09

The second edition of Dakar event was a success, about 44 skaters came from many different cities of Sénégal to join this event and to show very good performances.
For the second consecutive year, Eric Torres (Sen) won the battle final in front of Carlos Biagui (Sen) and Ibrahima Mboup (Sen).
The women's final has been won by Maïmouna Sabaly (Sen).
A speed slalom competition was also held for the first time ;
Mbisane Diallo (Sen) coming from city of Thies, won the final against Babacar Ndiaye (Sen).  Celia Goncalves (Sen) won the women's final.

Full results here

Battle Buenos Aires 09 + Mar Del Plata 09

The first slalom contest in Argentina was held in Buenos Aires, and then another competition was held 1 week later in Mar Del Plata.

3 victories for Braian Gonzalez (Arg) who won the men's battle final of Buenos Aires in front of M.Kobayashi (Bra) and D.Leys (Arg) and the final of Mar del Plata in front of A.Villareal (Arg) and D.Leys (Arg). He won also the speed slalom final of Mar del Plata against P.Wasielewsky (Fra).

A."Mapu" Iriarte (Arg) won the speed slalom final in buenos Aires.

In the women category, 2 victories for Jenifer Wolkowyski (Arg) who won Buenos Aires Battle and Mar del Plata Speed slalom final.

A.Malladott (Arg) won the speed slalom final in B.Aires.

Full results here

SNFC 09

Singapore National Freestyle Championship was held on November 14th, 2009.

Clarence Cheung won 2 national titles since he won both freestyle classic and speed slalom competitions. Wen Tay Shu won the title in classic women and Rebecca Chew Rui Jun won the title in speed women category.

Full rankings available here

Battle Dream Town Kiev 09

Martin Sloboda (Ger) won the battle men's final against D.Shevarutin (Rus), V.Meleshkevich (Rus) and R.Gordin (Rus).

Polina Semenova won the women's final against M.Boyko (Ukr) and C.Seyres (Fra).

Chloe Seyres (Fra) won the speed slalom women's final against K.Lysenko (Rus).

K.Ryazantsev (Rus) won the men's final v. I.Cheremetieff (Fra)

Full Results here / Videos by rekil here

Battle UK Nationals

JB Milleret (UK) won the national title in Speed and Freestyle slalom

Zoe Brealey (UK) won the national title in Freestyle slalom women

Results here

Roman Gordin (Rus) won battle men's final and Marina Boyko (Ukr) won women's battle final. Kirill Ryazantsev (Rus) won speed slalom men's final and Kristina Lysenko (Rus) won speed slalom women's final. 

Full results here

Malaga hosted the final of the Spanish slalom series 2009. 

Adrian Almazan (Spa) won the mixed final and the spanish battle title in front of Jorge Teba (Spa) and Paul Randles (Spa). First women is Ana Borrego and Zaira Tari, both 13th.

Full results here / Final Spanish ranking here

In Köln was held the last event of the german slalom series 09.

Martin Sloboda (Ger) won the men's Battle final, in front of Rudy Op't Veld (Ger) and Antoine Colange (Fra).

In the women category, Anya Ziertmann (Ger) won the final in front of Fanny Violeau (Fra) and Miriam Kwasny (Ger) .

Full results are available here / German Series final ranking here

The final of the French Slalom Series 09 was held in Lyon, during Lugdunum contest - Final Arena.
The best French slalom skaters came to win the final title and also some skaters from belgium, italy, germany and russia. Igor Cheremetieff (Fra) won the men battle final in front of Antoine Colange (Fra), Xuan Le (Fra) and Kyan Sanchez (Fra) in a very tight final.
Chloe Seyres (Fra) won the women battle final against Fanny Violeau (Fra), Emilie Audrezet (Fra) and Claire Ploton (Fra). In the speed slalom competition, Alexandre Claris (Fra) won the final against Igor Cheremetieff (Fra). Sebastien Trocars (Fra) won the 3rd place duel against Daniele Lenzi (Ita). Chloe Seyres won the women speed slalom final against Fanny Violeau (Fra). Emilie Audrezet (Fra) took the 3rd place against Sara Masi (Ita).

Full results here

Streetlife Festival, Munich, Germany, was the 3rd step of German slalom series.

Martin Sloboda (Ger) won the battle final, in front of T.Ferrari (Ita) and A.Colange (Fra).

Double victory for Barbara Bossi (Ita) who won the women battle final against Anya Ziertmann (Ger) and C.Lualdi (Ita) ; and the speed slalom final against C.Lualdi.

T.Ferrari won the speed slalom final against M.Gurevich (Rus), S.NAi-Oleari (Ita) finished 3rd.

Full results Here / New German Ranking Here

The 1st edition of Gdansk competition was held in Poland. K.Kudyk (Pol) won the battle men's final in front of P.Martynek (Pol) and R.Knewski (Pol). P.Martynek won the speed final against J.Parulski, R.Knewski finished 3rd. Double  Victory for Lidia Wardzinska (Pol) who won battle and speed slalom final.

Full results here

Triple victory for C.Seyres (Fra) who won women's Battle, Classic and Speed Slalom competitions. P.Pinyojarassang (Tha) finished at 2nd place in Classic and Battle competitions, and took the 3rd place in Speed Slalom. Hsiang Wen-Ju (Tpe) finished 3rd of the battle final. Shin Hyo-Jae (Kor) took the second place in Speed slalom and 3rd place in Classic. 

In the men competition, Igor Cheremetieff (Fra) won both speed slalom and classic finals, and finished at second place in battle behind Martin Sloboda (Ger), who took the second place in classic freestyle. Rudy Op't Veld took the 3rd place in Battle, and Xuan Le (Fra) finished third in the classic. Jb Milleret (Uk) took the 3rd place in the speed slalom contest.

Full results here

The 2nd edition of the WSSA World Championships, supported by FIRS was held in Shanghai, China.

Chinese skaters won the most of gold medals, Chen Chen won 2 world titles, in Classic and Battle Freestyle slalom, she got the more points in Classic in front of Qin Chun Yan (Chn), and P.Semenova (Rus). She won the  battle final, in front of N.Zelenova (Rus) and C.Seyres (Fra).Bao Hui Fa (Chn) won the Classic men, in front of Zeng Jian Bo (Chn) and Liao Jie (Chn). Lan Wang Heng kept his 08 title in Battle, as he won the final 09 in front of M.Sloboda (Ger) and I.Cheremetieff (Fra). Guo Fang (Chn) won the speed slalom men final against Liao Jie (Chn), Igor Cheremetieff took the 3rd place. Severine Thomas (Fra) won the speed slalom women's final against C.Seyres (Fra), Chen Chen took the 3rd place.

Full results here

Skate London was very successful event ! About 90 skaters from about 17 countries ;) took part in the competitions.
Double victory for Barbara Bossi (Ita) who won both Speed slalom and Battle Finals.
Another victory for Martin Sloboda (Ger) who won the men's battle final.
"Tizzzi" Ferrari (Ita) won the speed slalom men's final.

Full results and videos here

New victory for Martin Sloboda (Ger) who won the Men's battle final against Rudy Op't Veld (Ger), Igor Cheremetieff (Fra) and Xuan Le (Fra).

Chloe Seyres (Fra) won the women's final against Polina Semenova (Rus), Anya Ziertmann (Ger) and Fanny Violeau (Fra).

Italian skaters dominated the speed slalom, since Davide Piacentini won the men final against Tiziano Ferrari, and Simone Nai Oleari finished 3rd. Barbara Bossi (Ita) won the women's final against Chloe Seyres, and Chiara Lualdi took 3rd place.

Full results and videos here

A freestyle slalom competition was held in Bangkok, Thailand on July 25-26. Triple victory for Pichaya Pinyojarassang (Tha) who won Speed, Classic and Battle contests.

Full results here

For its first edition, battle Belgium was very successful, about 50 skaters from 9 countries joined the event to offer a great show and great performances !!
Chloe Seyres (Fra) is the women of the week-end, since she won both Battle and Speed finals. Barbara Bossi (Ita) took 2 second places in Battle and Speed Slalom. Megan McIntosh (Usa) took the third place in Battle and Miriam Kwasny (Ger) took the 3rd place in Speed Slalom.
Davide Piacentini (Ita) is the surprise of this week-end since he won the speed slalom final against world number #1 Tiziano Ferrari (Ita). Jb Milleret (Uk) took the 3rd place.
Igor Cheremetieff (Fra) is confirming his good period by winning a 3rd battle final in a row after Kiev and Warsaw. Xuan Le (Fra) took the second place and Tiziano Ferrari the 3rd place.

Full results and Tv reports here

Another double victory for Igor Cheremetieff (Fra) and another victorious battle for Nadezhda Zelenova (Rus) !!!!
I.Cheremetieff (Fra) won again in Warsaw, after his Kiev victory, for his first participation to this event. He beated in a beautiful battle final Dmitryi Milyokhin (Rus), Xuan Le (Fra) and M.Gurevich (Rus), the 08 title holder. In the speed slalom final, Igor beated S.Laffargue (Fra) in 2 runs. M.Gurevich (Rus) took 3 rd place, beating the fastest polish skater, J.Parulski.

N. Zelenova (Rus), showed again she is the most technical skater of the moment, with her double wheeling transitions and very nice sevens, she beated again World champion 08 C.Seyres (Fra). Lidia Wardzinska (Pol) took a very good 3rd place, in front of M.Kwasny (Ger), 4th. C.Seyres, still won the speed slalom final, against L.wardzinska ; M.Kwasny took 3rd place beating W.Konczakowska (Pol) in the consolation final.

Full results and video here

Double victory for Igor Cheremetieff (Fra) in Kiev, French best skater, and freestyle world n.#5, won the battle final against D.Shevarutin (Rus), 2nd, R.Gordin (Rus), 3rd and A.Shitov (Rus), 4th. He won the speed slalom final as well against A.Tsokolov (Rus). S.Laffargue (Fra) took the 3rd place against A.Shitov (Rus).
In the women battle, after her victory in Paris, Nadezhda Zelenova (Rus) won again in Kiev, in front of C.Seyres (Fra), and M.Boyko (Ukr). K.Lysenko (Rus) won the speed final against C.Seyres (Fra) ; O.Fadina took the 3rd place.

Full results and video here

Grenoble Glisse Festival was the 4th step of the French Slalom Series 09, held on June 27th 28th. Xuan Le won the battle final in front of Igor Cheremetieff, Antoine Colange and Kyan Sanchez. Igor cheremetieff won the speed slalom mixed contest, beating in final Sebastien Laffargue, Chloe Seyres took 3rd place and won the women battle final in front of Sophie Lovato and Alice Lacouture.
With his victory, Xuan Le is sure to win the wssa french national title in battle category, as well as Chloe Seyres who is sure to win the women title in battle category.
Igor Cheremetieff is also sure to be on the second step of podium for battle category.
In Speed Slalom, Igor Cheremetieff has the best chances to be 09 Champion, but Sebastien Trocars can still win the French title, only if he wins the final in Lyon.
In the women category, the title can go to Fanny Violeau or Chloe Seyres, depending on Lyon result in September.
For the rest of the podiums, several skaters can reach it in men and women categories, and the results of the last step in Lugdunum Contest of Lyon will decide. We expect a very interesting final in Lyon.

Full ranking and video here
French Ranking here

The 3rd edition of Battle US was held in Boston, on june 20-21, 2009.
Igor Cheremetieff (Fra) won the battle final against Xuan Le (Fra),  John Stanning (Aus)  and Tim Schraepen (Bel).  The national title has been won by Eriald Karakosta, from NYC in front of Jeremy Lacivita, 2008 US champion and Megan McIntosh, from Boston.
Full results and Video here

The 3rd step of the French Slalom Series 09 was held in Dijon, on June 14th.
Xuan Le won the mixed battle in front of Igor Cheremetieff and Romain Lebois. Kyan Sanchez took 4th place. Emilie Audrezet is the first women by taking the 8th place ; she also won the Speed slalom women final against Audrey Ranemachise.
Full results here / French Series provisory Ranking here

Barcelona Extreme was held on June 6-7th, in Spain. Triple victory for Igor Cheremetieff (Fra) who won mixed Battle competition in front of Xuan Le (Fra), Rudy Op't Veld (Ger) and Jon Larrucea (Spa) ; he won also Speed slalom contest beating Jorge Teba (Spa) in final and Slide contest in front of S.Laffargue (Fra) and G.Pinto (Fra).  Victor Bermudez (Spa) took 3rd place in the speed slalom contest, beating A.Almazan (Spa) in the small final.
Full results and video of final here

PSWC 09 was a great success !! With about 120 competitors from 18 countries who took part in different categories, it was the biggest event ever ! Kim Sung Jin (Kor) did the best performance, winning the Battle final, the Classic men contest and taking the 3rd place in the speed slalom contest. In the Battle Men competition, Martin Sloboda (Ger) took 2nd place in front of Terence Cheung (Sin) and Xuan Le (Fra). Tiziano Ferrari (Ita), speed slalom world n.1, confirmed his success in Russia by winning again in Paris, beating french Romain Lebois in Final. In the women category, Nadezhda Zelenova (Rus) won the Battle final against World Champion Chloe Seyres (Fra), and the 2 other russians Polina Semenova and Lika Babiy. Chiara Lualdi (Ita) won the speed slalom women's final against Barbara Bossi (Ita), Chloe Seyres took 3rd place beating Fanny Violeau in small final. C.Seyres won the Classic freestyle contest in front of C.Lualdi and A.Babiy.
A slide contest was also organised, and Kirill Ryazantsev (Rus) won the final against Jireh Go En Cih (Sin) and Yohan Fort (Fra).
Full results here

The first french slalom series 09 event was held in Le Havre, on May 9-10th, Igor Cheremetieff (Fra #2) won the mixed battle final in front of Chloe Seyres (Fra #1) and Antoine Colange (Fra #28). Xuan Le (Fra #9) finished 4th. In the speed slalom competition, I.Cheremetieff won the final against S.Trocars (Fra), M.Violeau (Fra) took 3rd place. Fanny Violeau (Fra) won the speed women final against Chloe Seyres. Celine Mailfait (Fra) took 3rd place. Full results here

The second Itlalian Slalom Battle was held on May 2nd in Ancona, Italy. Igor Cheremetieff (FRA) won the battle men's final in front of Xuan Le (Fra), Sebastien Laffargue (Fra) and Luca Ulivieri (Ita), who won the speed slalom final against I.Cheremetieff. Savio Brivio (Ita) took 3rd place. In the women competition, Chloe Seyres (Fra) won the battle final in front of Barbara Bossi (Ita) and Chiara Lualdi (Ita). Barbara Bossi won the women's speed slalom against C.Lualdi in the final ; Sara Barlocco (Ita) took 3rd place.

Full results here

Beijing Slalom Open was held on April 23-25th. Kim sung Jin (Kor) won battle final against Guo Fang (Chn) and Rudy Op't Veld (Ger). In the women category, Chloe Seyres (Fra) won the final against Polina Semenova (Rus) and Chen Chen (Chn).
Zeng Jian Bo (Chn) won Classic freestyle contest in front of Kim Sung Jin and Kim Tae Bin (Kor). Meng Yun (Chn) won women freestyle contest against Chen Chen (Chn) and Chloe Seyres (Fra). In the speed slalom competition, Lan Wang Heng (Chn) won the final against Kim Sung Jin (Kor). Guo Fang (Chn) took 3rd place. Ye Run Shi (Chn) won women speed final against Yu Qian Qian (Chn) and Deng Ling (Chn).

Full results available here

Battle Royale Madrid was a good success. Martin Sloboda (Ger), fresh and young europe battle champion, won the final against Xuan Le (Fra) and Jon Larrucea (Spa). Tiziano Ferrari (Ita) finished 4th. In the women category, Emma Natividad (Spa) won against Rosie Cohen (UK) and Yoli Saz (Spa)

Video of Men's final here

Full results available here

A slalom competition was held in Bangkok, Thailand, the last week-end of March, here are the results :
Classic Freestyle : 1. Miss.Pichaya Pinyojarassang ; 2. Arm Pongprasert ; 3. Pisit Jaraspanichayakul
Freestyle Battle  : 1. Mr. Sorapol Bunchit ; 2. Miss.Pichaya Pinyojarassang ; 3. Arm Pongprasert

The March World Ranking is now available !
After latest competitions, many changes happened. Classic Slalom World Champion, Guo Fang (Chn) is new World n.1 in freestyle slalom men, while Chloe Seyres take back the 1st position in the women ranking to Chen Chen (Chn). In the Speed slalom ranking, Europe Champion Tiziano Ferrari (Ita) is new World n.1. Many other changes happened, check the World Ranking !

Battle Burgos 2016

A.Almazan (SPA #21) won the final against J.Teba (SPA #132), V.Bermudez (SPA #36) and J.Gandara (SPA #359).
More informations and report (Spanish) available here. / Videos here

European Battle Championship, Moscow, Russia

This year again Battle Moscow was a great success.
In the women category, Chloe Seyres (Fra) won the first wssa european title, winning the final in front of P.Semenova (Rus) and A.Babiy (Rus).
Martin Sloboda (Ger) only 14 years old, won the title in the men category, in front of D.Shevarutin (Rus) and V.Meleshkevich (Rus).
A good surprise in the speed slalom women category, since K.Surmach (Rus) won the final against world n.1 C.Seyres, K.Lysenko (Rus) took 3rd place.
In the men category, Tiziano Ferrari (ITA) won his first main title beating A.Shitov(Rus) in the final. I.Cheremetieff (Fra) took bronze medal.
The world ranking will be affected by those results, since C.Seyres reaches the first place in freestyle slalom, T.Ferrari reaches the world first place in speed slalom.
Title holder I.Cheremetieff (5th place in battle) is losing his leadership in favor of Guo Fang (Chn), 2008 freestyle classic world champion.
Full results here

Battle St Petersburg, Russia

The first battle of St petersburg was held on March 14th. About 50 skaters took part in men and women battles. In the men category, Dmitry Shevarutin (Rus) suprised everybody by winning the final against Battle World n.1, Igor Cheremetieff (Fra), A.Shitov (Rus#56) took 3rd place and V.Meleshkevich (#35) finished at 4th place. In the women category, N.Zelenova (Rus #15) won the final against P.Semenova (#3), A.Babiy (#21) and C.Seyres (#2) who did too many mistakes to go on the podium.

Full results here

Italian Roller Battle 1, Rome, Italy

Igor Cheremetieff (Fra #1) won the men battle final in front T.Ferrari (Ita #7) and Luca Ulivieri (Ita #61) who won the Speed Slalom final against S.Nai Oleari (Ita). S.Brivio (Ita) took Speed 3rd place. Double victory for Barbara Bossi (Ita) who won the battle women final against C.Lualdi (Ita) and B.Codazzi (Ita) and the speed final against C.Lualdi.

Full results

Roller-Days Monchengladbach, Germany (Feb 14-15)

The first Basic event of 2009 season was a great contest !
Rudy Op't Veld (Ger) won the battle final against I.Cheremetieff (Fra), M.Sloboda (Ger) and X.Le(Fra). Chloe Seyres (Fra) won the final women against A.Ziertmann (Fra), M.Kwasny (Ger) and S.Beyen (Ger).
In the speed slalom, S.Brivio (Ita) beat T.Ferrari (Ita) in the final, and S.Trocars (Fra) beat X.Le (Fra) in the small final. C.Seyres (Fra) won the women speed competition.
There was also a slide contest which has been won by G.Pinto (Fra) in front of A.Stepcsak (Ger) and I.Cheremetieff (Fra) Full results here / Pics from Van here

1st Italian Roller Battle 2009

The first Italian battle of the season will be held in Rome, on March 8th.
The event will be inside a bigger event with other inline sports.
For more informations, you can contact the organisator of the slalom contest :
freemoveshop@libero.it

VLC BAttle, Valencia, Spain

The first step of the Spanish Slalom Series 2009 was held on Jan.24th. A.Almazan (Spa) won the battle final in front of J.Larrucea and V.Bermudez.
Results and pictures here.

European Slalom Battle Championship 2009

The first WSSA European Slalom Championship will be held in Moscow, Russia, on March 20-21st ! This event is organised by Rollerclub and should gather the best european skaters who will fight in Speed and Freestyle Battle for the WSSA continental title. It is possible for skaters to plan this travel with St petersburg battle to do 2 events in the 2 most beautiful cities in Russia.
Event Website / Registration

Battle SPB 2009

The first Battle in St Petersburg, Russia, will be held on March 14th !
It will be held in the brand new city skatepark, which had it's grand opening few days ago !
Event Website

World Ranking 2008

The final 2008 WSSA world ranking is now out !
World Slalom Series 2008 gathered in 38 events, 629 skaters from 33 countries in freestyle slalom, and 400 skaters from 27 countries in Speed Slalom.
Check the full ranking here.

2008 World Slalom Championships (Sin), Dec.13-14th

The 2008 World Championship was held in Singapore on Dec. 13th and 14th. Guo Fang (Chn) is the new classic freestyle and speed slalom world champion. Lan Wang Heng (Chn) is the 1st battle freestyle world champion. In the women category, C.Seyres (Fra) won 2 World Champion's titles in speed slalom and battle. Chen Chen (Chn) won the classic freestyle title. Jireh Goh (Sin) and R.Chew Rui Jun (Sin) are the first freestyle slides WSSA World Champions. Kim Sung Jin / Yu Jin Sung (Kor) won the Jam title.
Full results / Videos : Women Battle / Classic runs : YJS / Guo Fang / Lan Wang Heng / C.Seyres / P.Semenova / Xuan Le / I.Cheremetieff / Men Battle / Jam KSJ YJS

Dakar, Senegal , Dec. 6

A Freestyle Battle contest was held for the first time in Dakar, Senegal, on December 6th during Accro-Roller 5th Anniversary. E.Torres (Sen) won the men battle in front of T.Vigan (Sen) & M.Cardoso (Sen). C.Goncalves (Sen) won the women battle. Full results / Video