Inline/quad skaters from around the world skate whereever they want during a weekend and try that 24 hours are completely covered without a break.

As reward for the participation I as sponsor donate to UNICEF, the United Nations agency to support children around the world. The more skaters participate the better. And there is a bonus, if 24 continuous hours are covered.

Participation is free of charge.

If you want to skate for one or more hours during the 24 consecutive hours of 24skate, then send a mail by clicking here register@24skate.net . The link is ready to simply let you fill out the following fields:

Your name

Your town

Your country

Date, start and end time (local time oder UTC time)

Name of Team (optional)

Okay to publish your name: Yes/No

You are very welcome to the team!

Registration deadline:
Registration is possible even after the 24skate. But, for setting up the schedule only applications are taken into account, if they arrive not later than one week before the 24skate.

Everyone, who donates one Euro (or more) per km of the distance covered by one 24skater in one hour and tells this to the 24skate co-ordinator, will receive the title 'Good-will Ambassador of 24skate, supporting UNICEF'.
There can be only one Ambassador per 24hour skater. An agreement of the skater must be presented by the Ambassador-to-be.

Here is a list of the 24skate-Ambassadors:

• Andrea Saterbak, Stillwater, Minnesota (for 52km of Matthew McGuire)
  
• Rosane Mello da Silva, Rio, Brasil (for 20,6km of Rioinline)
  
• Annika Risch, Lemwerder, Germany (much more than 1 Euro per km for 18,2 km of her father Knut Risch)
  
• Castilla Roller, Valladolid, Spain (for the 24skate #10 in Valladolid)
  

Here you can see the certificate (in Adobe pdf-format) which each Ambassador will receive.

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The Thueringer Speedskating Club (TSSC) Erfurt (German website) put his 12-hour race on June 11th, 2005, under the roof of 24skate. In 2008, 2009 and 2010 they joined again.

"Skating Karlsfeld" was a partner event of 24skate. Karlsfeld is a community close to Munich, Germany. "Skating Karlsfeld" was an event hosted by the youth workers of the community. In 2005 they did a lottery to raise some money for UNICEF. Expected number of participants at "Skating Karlsfeld": 1.000

St. Petersburg Marathon (Russian website) - a non competitive event - joined 24skate #2.

Green Ball Skate Moscow (Russian website) also took part in 24skate#2. This is a city skate for beginners and takes place every Saturday. Meeting time is 14:00 near Gagarin's memorial (Leninsky Prospekt metro station).

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Idea and realization: Clemens Suerbaum, Munich, Germany

I am a passionate inline-skater from Munich, Germany. Two inline hearts beat in my breast: One for recreational skating, another one for inline speedskating.
For the first one I was a so-called "bladeguard" of the Munich Bladenight. This is a weekly event on every non-rainy Monday evening from May to September on the streets of Munich. About 250 bladeguards cordon off the treck of several thousand participants from the other traffic. Record participation was 37.000 people. Later the average was a few thousand skaters. We usually go for 15-20 kilometers and the tour takes a little bit more than one hour. The last two years the Bladenight was cancelled because of Covid-19. In 2022 it will start again. For more information visit this comprehensive website (www.24skate.net/home_xmbn) .
The speed skate heart makes me try to get contact to local speedskating clubs whenever I had an international business travel. The nice people I met this way formed the base for 24skate #1.
My speedskating performance is mediocre: Ca. 1:20 for a (Berlin) marathon is my personal record, but probably out of reach nowadays (nevertheless I am happy to receive any advice from you).
But anyway, I love this sport and global communication, so I came to this idea of "skate around the world in 24 hours".