Cheb set to host 2026 World Inline Figure Skating Championships

Cheb’s Lokomotiva sports hall hosted the city’s first World Inline Skating Championships, putting WIFSA’s world championship and world open on a Czech stage built around solo figure skating, solo dance and trinline. The WIFSA World Championship and World Open 2026 ran June 25-28 at TJ Lokomotiva Cheb, with Monika Škorničková organizing and sponsoring the event and an official photographer working alongside the international judging panel.

The build-up was tightly scripted. Entries closed on May 28, payments were due May 31 and final music and PPC corrections were due June 5. After registration closed, the portal said training schedules, competition blocks, live results and replays would be posted, while the media section promised photos, reels and updates through official social channels. That kind of timing and access signals a championship being run with the paperwork, data flow and public visibility that international federations expect from a serious event.

The format itself showed how inline artistic skating is trying to widen its footprint without blurring its rules. The world championship section covered solo figure skating and solo dance. Trinline used TES achieved at the World Championship or World Open Elite Division, while the World Open applied WIFSA regulations across divisions. Every competitor had to hold WIFSA membership, a gatekeeping standard that makes the field easier to rank and gives athletes a clearer route into higher-level events.

That push for legitimacy sits inside a longer roller-sports history. World Skate, the IOC-recognized governing body for skateboarding and roller sports, dates the first artistic roller skating world championships to 1947 and says free and figure results have been tracked from 1980 onward. Cheb’s pitch was practical as well as symbolic: the sports complex is within walking distance of the train and bus station, organizers pointed visitors toward Prague by train, coach or air combinations, and Morris Hotel offered a 100 CZK per-night discount with code KRASO26. TJ Lokomotiva Cheb, founded in the autumn of 1945, gave the event a home with its own postwar sports pedigree.