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Roller derby league
Roller Derby Bordeaux Metro area
Bordeaux Country
France Founded 2009 Teams Petites Morts de Bordeaux Track type(s) Flat Venue Espace Roller Skate Affiliations
WFTDA Fédération française de roller sports Website
rollerderbybordeaux .fr
Roller Derby Bordeaux is a women's flat track
roller derby league based in
Bordeaux in
France . Founded in 2009, the league consists of a single team which competes against teams from other leagues.
History
Founded in the summer of 2009, Bordeaux claims to have been the first roller derby league in France. In July 2010, they played the first flat track bout in France, against
Roller Derby Toulouse .
[1]
[2] They again played Toulouse, and also the
Paris Rollergirls , in a tournament the following summer.
[3]
Three skaters from the league (Belle Zebuth, Emi Wild and Karla Karschër) were selected to play for
Roller Derby France at the
2011 Roller Derby World Cup .
[4]
By 2013, Bordeaux were working closely with STYX Roller Derby Bordeaux, a local men's league.
[5]
[6]
Bordeaux were founder members of the French Roller Derby Organisational Group (FROG),
[5] and in October 2013, were accepted as a member of the
Women's Flat Track Derby Association Apprentice Programme.
[7]
References
^ "
L'histoire de la creation de la Ligue
Archived 2013-11-05 at the
Wayback Machine ", Roller Derby Bordeaux (in French)
^ Carine Caussieu, "
imaginez maintenant : bordeaux s’engage pour la jeune création
Archived 2013-11-05 at the
Wayback Machine ", Bordeaux7 (in French)
^ "
Tournoi de roller derby à La Ramée : les poupées aiment la castagne ",
La Dépêche du Midi , 30 June 2011 (in French)
^ Mercy Less (5 October 2011).
"Team France 2011 World Cup Roster" . Derby News Network. Archived from
the original on 22 October 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2011 .
^
a
b "
Roller derby : le sport «féminin et féministe» qui cartonne
Archived 2013-11-05 at the
Wayback Machine ", Bordeaux7 , 4 February 2013 (in French)
^ "
Rock & roller ",
Le Monde , 11 October 2013 (in French)
^ "
WFTDA Accepts 28 Apprentice Leagues
Archived 2013-11-03 at the
Wayback Machine ", WFTDA, 29 October 2013
Accepted October 2012 Accepted October 2013 Accepted May 2014 Accepted January 2015 Accepted April 2015 Accepted July 2015 Accepted October 2015 Accepted April 2016 Accepted July 2016 Accepted October 2016 Accepted January 2017 Accepted July 2017 Accepted October 2017 Accepted February 2018