Crashed Ice

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Red Bull Crashed Ice is a winter extreme sporting event sponsored by the Red Bull energy drink, which involves downhill skating in an urban environment, on a track which includes steep turns and high vertical drops.

Competitors, having advanced from one of the tryouts in the prior months, race in heats of four skaters, with the top two advancing from each heat. Racers, typically ice hockey players, outfitted as such, speed down the course’s turns, berms, and jumps in a sport that fans describe as a mix of hockey, downhill skating and boardercross. 2010 will be a World Championship with two races set for Munich (GER) on January 16 for the eastern hemisphere and Quebec (CAN) for the western hemisphere on March 20 with Martin Niefnecker winning the World Championship by finishing first Munich and second in Québec.

• Red Bull’s Headlong Frozen Dash Is a Crash Course in Marketing, By Matt Higgins, New York Times, March 3, 2007
• Red Bull Crashed Ice returns to Quebec City, by Melissa Halarides, The Concordian, March 7, 2007
• A Downhill Ice Course, Full Hockey Gear and the Need for Speed, Market Wire, August 2006
• Crashed Ice: Le parcours de l'an dernier gonflé aux stéroïdes, by Ian Bussières, Le Soleil, January 25th 2008, P. 8 & 9

• Official site
• Crashed Ice Quebec 2011