Ice cross downhill is a

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extreme sporting event which involves direct competitive downhill

skating Skating involves any sports or recreational activity which consists of traveling on surfaces or on ice using skates, and may refer to: Ice skating *Ice skating, moving on ice by using ice skates **Figure skating, a sport in which individuals, ...

on a walled track featuring sharp turns and high vertical drops. Ice cross downhill is similar to

ski cross Ski cross is a skiing competition which incorporates terrain features traditionally found in freestyle skiing with courses which include big-air jumps and high-banked turns. In spite of the fact that it is a timed racing event, it is often con ...

and

boardercross Snowboard cross, also known as boardercross, is a snowboard competition in which four to six competitors race down a course. Snowboard cross courses are typically quite narrow and include camber angle, cambered turns, various types of jumps, ber ...

, except with

ice skates Ice skates are metal blades attached underfoot and used to propel the bearer across a sheet of ice while ice skating. The first ice skates were made from leg bones of horse, ox or deer, and were attached to feet with leather straps. These skates ...

on an ice track, instead of using skis or snowboards on a snow track. Events were held under the name

Red Bull Crashed Ice Red Bull Crashed Ice was a world tour in ice cross downhill, a winter sport, winter extreme sport, extreme sporting event which involves downhill Ice skating, skating in an urban environment, on a track which includes steep turns and high vertic ...

from 2001 until 2019, and have been sanctioned by the ATSX since 2019.

Course configurations and equipment

Courses

Contestants race down the course's turns, berms, and jumps. After racing one after another in the time trials, typically there are four racers starting each race.

Equipment

Racers wear helmets,

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bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two team sport, teams wearing Ice skates#Bandy skates, ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The playin ...

equipment,

ringette Ringette is a winter team sport played on an ice rink using ice hockey skates, straight sticks with drag-tips, and a blue, rubber, pneumatic ring designed for use on ice surfaces. While the sport was originally created exclusively for female c ...

equipment, or in some cases equipment from other sports. Ice hockey skates and bandy skates are used. Ice hockey skates have a design whose blade is cut to create two working edges giving downhill skaters control and the ability to make sharp turns and stops. Bandy skates have flatter, longer blades and typically do not have a tendon guard, however they do not have the same turning ability that ice hockey skates do. In 2015, Sadie Lundquist discussed the ice cross downhill equipment racers were using during an interview:

Contestants

Racers are typically

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

players, though

players,

players, speed skaters, and figure skaters have also competed. America's seven-time single event winner

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is particularly notable. Felder was a

player who represented the USA for the

United States national bandy team United States men's national bandy team has been taking part in the Bandy World Championships since 1985, being the first nation to join apart from the four teams which had so far participated in almost all the world championships; the Soviet U ...

, and while in ice cross dowhill, represented

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. Finland's

Salla Kyhälä Salla Kyhälä (born January 28, 1983, in Espoo) is a retired elite Finnish ringette player and world champion in both ringette and ice cross downhill. She played semi-pro ringette as a centre for in the elite Finnish semi-professional league, S ...

has also competed, a ringette player from Finland's national ringette team who also played in Canada's

National Ringette League The National Ringette League (NRL) ''()'' is the premier league for the sport of ringette in North America and Canada's national league for elite ringette players aged 18 and up. The NRL is not a women's variant of a more well-known men's leag ...

Gallery

File:Jasper Felder 2010 München.jpg,

, a former

player, won the single event 7 times File:Crashed Ice Québec 2011.jpg,

, a former

player, (second from right) File:Red Bull Crashed Ice Yokohama 2018 Women's Round of 16 Heat3 No.2 Jacqueline Legere.jpg,

Jacqueline Legere Jacqueline Legere (born 1991) is a Canadian stuntwoman and icecross downhill athlete currently competing in Red Bull Crashed Ice. During the 2016 season, Legere finished atop the Crashed Ice standings, emerging as the women’s world champion. Wh ...

, a former women's

player, is also a Canadian

stuntwoman A stunt performer, often called a stuntman or stuntwoman and occasionally stuntperson or stunt-person, is a trained professional who performs daring acts, often as a career. Stunt performers usually appear in films or on television, as opposed ...

File:Red Bull Crashed Ice Yokohama 2018 women's final4 No.1 Amanda Trunzo.jpg, Amanda Trunzo, a former women's

player File:Anais MORAND Antoine DORSAZ EC 2010.jpg, Anaïs Morand, a former pairs figure skater, has also raced File:Red Bull Crashed Ice Yokohama 2018 Men's Round of 64 Heat10 No.6 Kyle Croxall.jpg, Kyle Croxall, a former

player File:Red Bull Crashed Ice Yokohama 2018 Women's Final No.3 Myriam Trepanier.jpg,

Myriam Trépanier Myriam Trépanier (born July 13, 1986) is a former women's ice hockey player with the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs women's ice hockey program who currently competes in the Red Bull Crashed Ice circuit. Athletic career Raised in Saint-Michel-de-Bel ...

, a former

player File:Veronika Windisch - Team Austria Winter Olympics 2014.jpg, Veronika Windisch, a

short track speed skater Short-track speed skating is a form of competitive ice skating, ice speed skating. In competitions, multiple skaters (typically between four and six) skate on an oval ice track with a length of . The rink itself is long by wide, which is the s ...

References

External links

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the All Terrain Skate Cross Federation
* IICSF
the International Ice Cross Sports Federation
* Red Bull
Crashed Ice

World Ice Cross League
Ice skating sports Individual sports

Course configurations and equipment

Courses

Equipment

Contestants

Gallery

See also

References

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