backdrop_path

    2012-01-19

    1982-09-0344 years, 2 months, and 4 days old

    1

    Place of birth:

    Canada

    Adult:

    No

    Gender:

    Female

    Biography

    Sarah Jean Burke was a Canadian freestyle skier who was a pioneer of the superpipe event. She was a five-time Winter X Games gold medallist, and won the world championship in the halfpipe in 2005. She successfully lobbied the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to have the event added to the Olympic program for the 2014 Winter Olympics. She was considered a medal favourite in the event. Burke died following a training accident in Utah in 2012.

    Images Gallery

    Best Credits: 6

    Title
    Redtape
    Self
    0
    2004-07-16
    0.4567
    Whiteshine
    Self
    0
    2005-11-01
    0.5837
    Exact Science
    Self
    0
    2003-09-01
    1.0789
    Salad Days (TGR)
    Herself
    0
    2002-10-01
    0.5604
    Yearbook
    Sarah Burke
    3.7
    2004-01-01
    1.0408
    Push
    Self
    4.6
    2006-09-01
    1.0613
    0 of 6 row(s) selected.