St. Pauli Roller Derby

St. Pauli Roller Derby
League logo
Metro areaHamburg
CountryGermany
Founded2008
TeamsSt. Pauli A
St. Pauli B
St. Pauli United Team Roster
Track typeFlat
VenueSporthalle Wirtschaftsgymnasium, Christianeum Othmarschen
Websitewww.stpaulirollerderby.de

St. Pauli Roller Derby is a flat track roller derby league based in Hamburg in Germany. It consists of two trip teams, an A team and a B team, which compete against teams from other leagues. They are called St. Pauli A and St. Pauli B respectively.

St. Pauli Roller Derby is the follow-up club to the Harbor Girls e.V., which was an independent roller derby club before it became part of FC St. Pauli and changed its name.[1]

History

The Harbor Girls were founded by Spooky Spiky and Killing Zoe, the former had previously skated with the Stuttgart Valley Rollergirlz.[2] By mid-2011, the league had thirty skaters.[3]

Logo of the "Harbour Girls" before the 2023 name change

St. Pauli was accepted by the Women's Flat Track Derby Association in 2016 as a member league, marking the league eligible for international ranking.[4]

In March 2023, the league announced a changed name to St. Pauli Roller Derby on their Facebook profile.[5] This change was made to reflect the expansive genders within the league, and to honor their history with FC St. Pauli. The logo was updated with this change.

Competition

"Heavy Miss Gale", a skater from the league, was selected for the German national team for the 2011 Roller Derby World Cup.[6]

In the 2014 World Championship, four player from SPRD were selected to play in the Dallas roster: Ostblocker, Jeanne Dark, Knock 'n' Rose and Lotta Loveless.[7]

In 2024, St. Pauli came in first place in the German national competition, Bundesliga.[8] The win came after taking second place in both 2016 and 2018 and third place in 2023.

WFTDA rankings

Season Final ranking[9] Playoffs Championship
2017 237 WFTDA[10] DNQ DNQ
2018 255 WFTDA[11] DNQ DNQ
2019 331 WFTDA[12] DNQ DNQ
2023 62 Europe[13] NPS NPS
2024 35 Europe[14] DNQ DNQ

References

  1. ^ "Viva St. Pauli!". Harbor Girls Hamburg. Archived from the original on 12 January 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Roller Derby: Ruppige Frauen auf Rollschuhen", Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, 11 February 2009 (in German)
  3. ^ Julian König, "Roller-Derby: „Psyk Angel“ lässt es krachen", Hamburger Morgenpost, 10 July 2011 (in German)
  4. ^ https://www.stpaulirollerderby.de/
  5. ^ "St. Pauli Roller Derby". Facebook. Retrieved 18 March 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  6. ^ "Die komplette deutsche Mannschaft" (in German). Roller Derby Germany. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2011. (in German)
  7. ^ "Harbor Heroes Crowdfunding" (in German). St. Pauli Roller Derby. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  8. ^ https://rollerderbygermany.de/?page_id=28
  9. ^ "Current Rankings Archived 2009-02-02 at the Wayback Machine", WFTDA
  10. ^ https://stats.wftda.com/rankings?r=2440
  11. ^ https://stats.wftda.com/rankings?r=2450
  12. ^ https://stats.wftda.com/rankings?r=2841
  13. ^ https://stats.wftda.com/rankings/europe?r=5176
  14. ^ https://stats.wftda.com/rankings/europe?r=7199
allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbor_Girls_Hamburg