"VAN" (Sports Desk - 12.10.2026) :: The first week of the World Skate Games is over- and Asunción has already delivered 74 world titles and unexpected world records to fans around the globe.
The first week of the World Skate Games is over- and Asunción has already delivered 74 world titles and unexpected world records to fans around the globe.
Spain swept the Rink Hockey finals and won the Senior Women’s title in Inline Hockey. Five world records fell: two in Artistic Skating, two on the Speed Skating track and one in Inline Freestyle.
In Scootering, Jack Walsh posted the highest score in World Skate history.
New World Champions were crowned in Skateboarding Park, Artistic Skating, Inline Hockey, Roller Freestyle Street, Speed, Inline Slalom, Scootering Street and Inline Freestyle.
SKATEBOARDING PARK
Asuncion’s Olympic Committee Park witnessed Japanese 16-year-old Mizuho Hasegawa add the Park World Championship title to the Vert World Championship crown she claimed earlier in this World Skate Games, while Spanish 15-year-old Egoitz Bijueska retained his World Champion status for the second year running to continue his domination of the World Skateboarding Ranking in the approach to LA28!
RINK HOCKEY
Spain did the double in Asunción. The U19 team beat Portugal 2-1 in the final, with Genis Costa scoring the winner early in the second half. It is Spain’s second U19 title in a row and sixth overall, and Argentina took bronze. In the Senior Women final, goals from captain Piquero and Roces gave Spain a 3-1 win over Argentina. That makes a second title in a row, five of the last six editions and nine overall. Italy took bronze, their first medal since 1996.
ARTISTIC SKATING
Free Skating: two world records in Asunción. Portugal’s prodigy Madalena Costa enchanted the crowded SND Ueno bank Arena, keeping her Senior Ladies world title and broke her own world record with a total score of 264.69 delivering one of the best final ever, with Sira Bella Gallardo from Spain delivering an intense long program. Spain’s Guillermo Gomez won Senior Men on his senior debut with a world record total of 275.76, ahead of his teammate Unai Cereijo Garcia. In the Junior events, Italy’s Victoria Baldo won her first world title, and João Cruz became the first Portuguese man to win Junior Men.
Inline Free Skating: Chinese Taipei’s Yi-Fan Chen won his sixth world title in Senior Men. Italy’s Sofia Ciacia went from last year’s bronze to gold in Senior Ladies, and Spain’s India Gonzalez is now a two-time Junior Ladies World Champion.
INLINE HOCKEY
Velodromo and Polideportivo in COP saw an intense week of battles, ending with Spain’s Senior Women as World Champions after a 3-2 win over France. Olivia Monjas Gramaglia scored the winner with 31 seconds left. USA took bronze with a 5-3 win over Namibia, whose duo Leighzené Coetzee and Christine Röttcher were one of the stories of the tournament. In the Junior Men, Italy beat France 7-5 for gold, with Riccardo Quartuccio top scorer on 30 points. Spain took bronze with a 5-4 overtime win over Slovakia.
ROLLER FREESTYLE STREET
139 skaters from 24 countries came to Asunción to compete in the Roller Freestyle street World Championship, and the junior fields were almost evenly split between boys and girls. Rain wiped out Finals day, so the world titles were decided on Semifinal results. Brazil won medals in every category, including a full podium in Junior Women.
Anthony Santa Fé won Junior Men for Brazil. France’s Carla Pasquinelli won Women’s with a clean run, and Brazil’s Leonardo Cardoso beat fellow countryman Danilo Senna in Men’s, thanks to his creative approach to the course.
SCOOTERING STREET
Three divisions, three world champions: France’s Romane Gilliet won her first world title in Women’s Street with 176.96, just ahead of teammate Joséphine Zgorski. USA’s Jack Walsh won his first World Championship title in Men’s Street with 188.60, the highest score in World Skate Scootering history, while former record was Lucas Di Meglio with a 182.33 at the 2023 World Championships in Madrid.
His teammate Jake Roll won Junior Street with 184.03. France took five of the nine podium places.
INLINE FREESTYLE
230 skaters from 31 countries competed for 22 titles over four days at the SND complex.
Chinese Taipei swept Speed Slalom and Team Speed and topped the medal table with 18 medals. In Junior Women’s Free Jump, Russia’s Veronika Zherelnikova cleared 1.42 m for a new world record.
Freestyle Slides and Free Jump had separate Junior categories for the first time.
SPEED SKATING
Track racing is underway at the COP, and two world records have already fallen. In the 200m Dual Time Trial, Colombia’s Santiago Vasquez set a new Senior Men world record of 17.108, and El Salvador’s Ivonne Nochez Gallardo set a new Senior Women world record of 18.389.
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