Kyle Croxall at Red Bull Crashed Ice in Belfast

World championship showdown set for Edmonton

Three Canadians, an Austrian and an American will be battling it out in a wide-open Ice Cross Downhill World Championship at the season finale in Edmonton, AB (Canada) on March 14.

Canada's Scott Croxall is in the driver's seat going into the 2015 Ice Cross Downhill World Championship showdown in Edmonton after he jumped into the overall lead ahead of his brother Kyle with emphatic victories in the last two major Red Bull Crashed Ice races in Helsinki and Belfast as well as winning the last Riders Cup event in Jyväskylâ. But the 2015 world championship battle is still far from settled with a total of five racers – including two former world champions - still in the title hunt of the world's fastest sport on skates as it moves to its traditional finale in Canada. After nine straight years in Quebec City, this season's showdown competition will be held in the western city of Edmonton on a high-speed track, with massive drops, gaps, steps and hairpin turns built in the city centre.

Watch the video in the player above to see the riders who'll be competing. For more information about the event, including how to watch the final race live, visit redbullcrashedice.com/edmonton

Scott Croxall had a fantastic run on the European leg of the world championship with a maximum 2,000 points from the last two major Red Bull Crashed Ice races and 250 points for winning the Riders Cup stop in Jyväskylä, Finland, that propelled him from ninth place into the overall lead, with 2,765 points.

Defending world champion Marco Dallago, of Austria (1,987.50 points), is still within striking range of the 2015 title even though he is in fourth place and 2012 world champion Kyle Croxall (2,227.50) still has a chance to win it all again as well even though he is in third place. American Cameron Naasz, who won the first Riders Cup race this year in Afton Alps/Hastings, Minnesota, is in fifth place (1962.50). But it is Canada's Dean Moriarity (2,235), who has been skating consistently well this year with two podiums in the three major Red Bull Crashed Ice events, who has the best chance of catching Scott Croxall as he is in second place overall.

"It feels awesome to be in first place and it hasn't really sunk in yet," said Scott Croxall, after his win in Belfast in front of 24,000 spectators that put him into first place overall for the first time in his six-year career. He had been in the finals 13 times without a victory before hitting a hot streak with three wins in his last three finals. "I just want to keep winning and doing well," he added. He said his brother Kyle "has no hard feelings" that he had knocked him off the top. "We get along really well. We want to push each other and to do our best."

There is also a final Riders Cup race, a new competition this year created "by riders for riders" in which athletes can earn 25 percent as many Red Bull Crashed Ice points, in Sherbrooke, QC (CAN) on March 7, before the Ice Cross Downhill World Championship season finale in Edmonton, AB, on March 14.

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