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Richter City Roller Derby is a women's flat track roller derby league based in Wellington, New Zealand. Founded in 2007, the league currently consists of three intraleague teams, and two interleague teams. The league's colours are orange and purple. ==History== Richter City gained early publicity by performing demonstrations at the 2008 Dance Your Socks Off! Festival.〔"(Get your skates on and boogie at the disco )", Wellington City Council, 1 September 2008〕 Their first bout in March 2009 sold out the basketball hall used as the venue. In late 2009, the league held its first season of intraleague competition,〔"(Richter City Roller Derby: Skate of Emergency )", ''Undertheradar''〕 which saw crowds averaging 950 people.〔Hadyn Green, "Skate Highway One: New Zealand's First Interleague Bout!", ''Blood and Thunder'' #15, pp.36-38〕 In mid-season the league moved its bouts to TSB Bank Arena as spectator crowds were exceeding the capacity of the previous venue, a basketball hall.〔Stacey Wood, "(Whipping their sport into shape )", ''The Dominion Post''〕 In 2011 the league won the Air New Zealand Personality of the Year Award at the Wellington Sports Awards, beating Lower Hutt boxing identity Billy Graham, All Black Piri Weepu, and veteran sports broadcaster Keith Quinn in the popular vote.〔Dominion Post, ("Repeat victory fr Herbert ), Retrieved 11 December 2011.〕〔Wellington Sports Awards, ("2011 WINNERS" ), Retrieved 11 December 2011.〕 In July 2012, Richter City was accepted as a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association Apprentice Programme.〔"(WFTDA Accepts 35 Apprentice Leagues )", WFTDA, 16 July 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richter City Roller Derby」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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