After three location changes and unusually cool weather, the Ultimate Showdown has officially come to a close.

Three Guinness World Record holders, Arvid Loewen of Winnipeg and Australians Reid Anderton and Andrew Hilinga, went head-to-head in a last-man-standing competition to raise funds for hungry children.

"I came up with this concept of simply riding until we can no longer ride," Arvid explained. "The reality is, we are trying to create a platform where all of us are able to raise funds for our respective organizations with the people who have supported us over the years."

Loewen was raising funds for Mully Children's Family, a street children rescue mission in Kenya, Africa, where he has been using his ultra-marathon cycling platform for the past 19 years. 

Reid and Andrew were promoting Eagles Wings, a children's ministry in Zambia, Africa.

The trio started at Bird's Hill Park, and in the middle of the morning on Wednesday, due to traffic issues in the park, relocated to a church on Henderson Highway before officially ending in a parking lot further up the road. 

Despite the last-minute changes and a few flat tires, all the cyclists powered through, with Reid Anderton coming in first at 830 kilometres. He ran out of steam at 4:17 p.m. on Wednesday, riding 32 hours and 17 minutes. 

Arvid came in second at 800 kilometres, riding 33 hours and 5 minutes. He was followed up by Andrew Hilinga, who rode 720.1 kilometres. 

"Adding up all three riders, that’s 2350.1km ridden to support two incredible charities doing amazing work," said Loewen's family in a post on Facebook. 

The first-place winner will receive $15,000 to give to their charity, second-place $10,000 and third-place $5000.

Although each rider will receive a monetary prize for their charity, Arvid hoped to raise $500,000 for Mully Children's Family to provide 1 million meals to hungry kids.

"Charles Mully has 6500 kids that he cares for, Loewen explained. "In addition to that, he is reaching out to the most impoverished community schools around their 11 centres, and at times he feeds an extra 30,000 kids from these community schools."

Those interested in helping can visit Arvid Loewen's Facebook page or mcfcanada.org.