Harbor Girls Hamburg

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 Harbor Girls A and Harbor Girls B respectively.

Harbor Girls Hamburg
Metro areaHamburg
CountryGermany
Founded2008
TeamsHarbor Girls
Track type(s)Flat
VenueSporthalle Wirtschaftsgymnasium, Christianeum Othmarschen
Websiteharborgirls.de

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]

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]

"Heavy Miss Gale", a skater from the league, was selected for the German national team for the 2011 Roller Derby World Cup.[4]

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.[5]

References
  1. "Viva St. Pauli!", official website - retrieved 10 June 2014 (in German)
  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. "Die komplette deutsche Mannschaft" (in German). Roller Derby Germany. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2011. (in German)
  5. "Harbor Heroes Crowdfunding" (in German). St. Pauli Roller Derby. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
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