- Sarah Burke
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Medal record Competitor for 
CanadaWomen's Freestyle skiing FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships Gold 2005 Ruka Halfpipe X Games Medal Record Gold 2007 Aspen Superpipe Gold 2008 Aspen Superpipe Gold 2009 Aspen Superpipe Gold 2011 Aspen Superpipe Silver 2005 Aspen Superpipe Sarah Burke (born 1982) is a Canadian freestyle skier who grew up in Midland, Ontario, Canada. She now resides in Whistler, British Columbia.
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Skiing career
Burke won first place in the 2001 US Freeskiing Open in the half-pipe and second place in slopestyle. She won the first ever world championship half-pipe event.[1] Burke is also a four-time Winter X Games gold medalist in freestyle skiing.[2][3]
She won ESPN's 2001 Award for female skier of the year and was voted 2007's Best Female Action Sports Athlete at the ESPY awards as well as BERT, the first skier to be so honored.
She regularly participates in skiing films, including Propaganda, in which she showcased her skills by sliding huge rainbow rails, spinning a huge 540 in the pipe and throwing back-flips with ease.[4]
Off the Slopes
She was voted number 91 on the FHM-U.S.'s 100 Sexiest Women 2006 list.[5]
Burke also enjoys knitting, cooking and baking, mountain biking, going to the gym, painting, and climbing.[6][7]
On September 25, 2010 Burke married fellow freeskier Rory Bushfield in Pemberton, B.C. [8]
Sources
- ^ [1]
- ^ Sarah Burke Captures Third Straight Gold in Superpipe SI.com, January 23, 2009
- ^ "Women's Ski SuperPipe Results". Winter X Games Fifteen. ESPN.com. January 27, 2011. http://espn.go.com/x-games/winter/2011/results/?page=womens-ski-superpipe-results. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
- ^ [2]
- ^ "FreeJose.com". FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2006. http://www.freejose.com/lists/fhm/2006/. Retrieved January 23, 2007.
- ^ [3]
- ^ [4]
- ^ [5]
External links
- Official Website
- Sarah Burke, Game Designer - The Ski Channel wrote a story on 06/18/09 about Sarah's new video game, LittleBigPlanet.
- EXPN Profile
- Interview by Powdermag.com
- Sarah Burke on Go211.com Exclusive photos, videos and blogs submitted by Sarah.
References
- ^ [1]
- ^ Sarah Burke Captures Third Straight Gold in Superpipe SI.com, January 23, 2009
- ^ "Women's Ski SuperPipe Results". Winter X Games Fifteen. ESPN.com. January 27, 2011. http://espn.go.com/x-games/winter/2011/results/?page=womens-ski-superpipe-results. Retrieved January 28, 2011.
- ^ [2]
- ^ "FreeJose.com". FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2006. http://www.freejose.com/lists/fhm/2006/. Retrieved January 23, 2007.
- ^ [3]
- ^ [4]
- ^ [5]
Categories:- Living people
- 1982 births
- People from Midland, Ontario
- Sportspeople from Vancouver
- X-Games athletes
- Canadian freeskiers
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