Sarah Burke (freestyle skier)

Sarah Burke
Full name	Sarah Jane Burke
nation	Canada
birthday	3rd September 1982
place of birth	Barrie , Ontario
date of death	January 19, 2012
Place of death	Salt Lake City
Career
discipline	halfpipe
society	Whistler Mountain Ski Club
Medal table
World championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Freestyle Skiing World Championships gold Ruka 2005 halfpipe
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
Debut in the World Cup March 17, 2006  World Cup victories 5  Overall World Cup 4th ( 2007/08 )  Halfpipe World Cup 1. (2007/08, 2010/11 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  halfpipe 5 1 0
last change: January 14, 2012

Sarah Jane Burke (born September 3, 1982 in Barrie , Ontario , † January 19, 2012 in Salt Lake City , Utah ) was a Canadian freestyle skier . She specialized in the halfpipe discipline and became the first female world champion in this discipline at the 2005 Freestyle Skiing World Championships .

biography

Burke grew up in Midland , Ontario . On September 25, 2010, she married the Canadian freeskier Rory Bushfield in Pemberton , British Columbia . The couple lived and trained in Whistler , British Columbia.

In 2001 Burke took first place at the US Freeskiing Open in the halfpipe and came second in slopestyle . In 2005 she won the first halfpipe world championship title in Ruka . In the years that followed, she won gold medals four times in the Superpipe competition at the Winter X Games . In addition, in the 2007/08 and 2010/11 seasons she won the halfpipe discipline of the Freestyle World Cup .

Burke commented for US sports television broadcaster ESPN and had her own clothing line at Roxy, a Quiksilver fashion brand for women. She also played in various ski films. One of her best known works was Propaganda , in which she presented her skills on the great rainbow rail; here it showed a 540-degree turn in a pipe and impressed with its lightness with backflips. Burke's lobbying contributed significantly to the inclusion of the halfpipe and slopestyle disciplines in the program of the 2014 Winter Olympics .

On January 10, 2012, Burke fell while training in the superpipe at Park City Mountain Resort and suffered severe traumatic brain injury despite having a crash helmet . She was reanimated and flown to the University Hospital in Salt Lake City , where she died on the morning of January 19, 2012. Since the fall happened during training as part of a sponsorship event outside of association competitions, she should not have been insured. For this reason fans and relatives called on the Internet for donations to cover hospital costs of 550,000 US dollars (around 425,000 euros).

Sarah Burke was an organ donor .

“It is what our lives are, being on the hill, and there is a reason for that. It is where we met, where we play, where we live and hopefully where we will die. "

“(Roughly :) These are our lives of being on the hill, and there is a reason. That's where we met, where we play, where we live and where we will hopefully die. "

- Sarah Burke on skiing and her relationship with her husband Rory Bushfield

Canadian snowboard trainer Trennon Paynter and Burke's husband scattered their ashes on the halfpipe in the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park in Krasnaya Polyana on the last day of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi .

successes

World championships

• Ruka 2005 : 1st halfpipe
• Deer Valley 2011 : 4th halfpipe

World cup

• 6 podium places, including 5 wins:

date	place	country
March 17, 2006	apex	Canada
January 13, 2008	Les Contamines	France
February 15, 2008	Inawashiro	Japan
March 20, 2011	La Plagne	France
March 20, 2011	La Plagne	France

Winter X Games

year	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009		2010		2011
discipline	SuperPipe	SuperPipe	SuperPipe	SuperPipe	Slopestyle	SuperPipe	Slopestyle	SuperPipe	SuperPipe
placement	2.	2.	1.	1.	7th	1.	6th	6th	1.

Awards

After her first successes in 2001, Burke was named Skier of the Year by ESPN TV at the Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Awards . In 2007 she was named the best action sports athlete. Since the ESPY Awards were first broadcast in 1993, she was the first to win a prize from skiing .

Burke was voted number 91 on the 2006 US FHM 100 Sexiest women in 2006 .

Web links

• Sarah Burke in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Profile X Games (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Freestyle skier Sarah Burke dies. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, January 19, 2012, accessed January 21, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke in coma after serious crash. (No longer available online.) National Post , Jan. 11, 2012, archived from the original on Jan. 14, 2012 ; accessed on January 21, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Andrea Woo, Gary Kingston: Whistler ski star Sarah Burke in coma after crash during training. In: The Vancouver Sun. January 11, 2012, accessed January 21, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Michael Brehme (dpa): Freestyle star after falling in a coma. In: Yahoo! Eurosport. January 11, 2012, accessed January 21, 2012 . 
5. ^ Morning briefing. In: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. March 18, 2005, p. D9 , accessed January 20, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Sarah Burke Biography. (No longer available online.) In: roxy.com. Archived from the original on July 20, 2012 ; accessed on January 21, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ Propaganda. (No longer available online.) In: Sportpantoffel.de. Archived from the original on May 14, 2012 ; Retrieved January 21, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ^ Burke in critical condition after fall. In: ESPN.com. January 12, 2012, accessed January 21, 2012 . 
9. ↑ No lessons were learned from Sarah Burke's death. Retrieved January 18, 2013 . 
10. ↑ Ski Freestyle: Canadian Burke dies. (No longer available online.) In: Zeit Online . January 19, 2012, archived from the original on April 25, 2012 ; Retrieved January 21, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ^ Raise Money For Medical Expenses To Support Rory Bushfield. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 21, 2012 ; accessed on January 21, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Ski freestyler Burke dies from the effects of a fall . Spiegel Online , January 19, 2012
13. ↑ Joe O'Connor: Sarah Burke: Too young, too smart, to go that way. (No longer available online.) In: National Post. Postmedia Network, January 19, 2012; archived from the original on January 21, 2012 ; Retrieved January 21, 2012 (English, message updated January 20, 2012). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ^ Rachel Axon: Sarah Burke's ashes spread in the Sochi mountains by Olympic coach. In: USA Today. February 22, 2014, accessed February 23, 2014 . 
15. ↑ Female Skier of the Year Nominee Bios: Sarah Burke. (No longer available online.) In: www.espneventmedia.com. Archived from the original on February 4, 2016 ; accessed on January 21, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ↑ Past Winners: 2007. ESPN, accessed January 21, 2012 (English). 
17. ↑ Freestyle Skier Sarah Burke Adds "Game Designer" to Resume. In: theskichannel.com. June 18, 2009, accessed January 21, 2012 .