Sarah Burke
- January 5, 2024
- Skier
Quick Facts
Sarah Burke Biography
| Name | Sarah Burke |
| Birthday | Sep 3 |
| Birth Year | 1982 |
| Place Of Birth | Barrie |
| Birth Country | Canada |
| Birth Sign | Virgo |
| Parents | Gordon Burke, Jan Phelan |
| Siblings | Anna Phelan |
| Spouse | Rory Bushfield |
Sarah Burke is one of the most popular and richest Skier who was born on September 3, 1982 in Barrie, Canada. Four-time X Games gold medalist who tragically died in 2012 training accident.
She was a pioneer in her Winter X Games events, which is also true for snowboarder Shaun White.
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.
Burke won first place in the 2001 US Freeskiing Open in the half-pipe event and finished second in slopestyle. She and Leskinen were the only women who competed against the men. In 2004, Burke lobbied ESPN to include a division for women skiers at its Winter X Games. In 2005, ESPN added women’s freeskiing to the X-Games.
She married Rory Bushfield in 2010.
Sarah Burke Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Skier |
| House | Living in own house. |
Sarah Burke is one of the richest Skier from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sarah Burke 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
She won her first Free-skiing Open event in 2001, at age nineteen.
She was awarded the 2007 ESPY award for Best Female Action Sports Athlete.
Sarah Jean Burke (September 3, 1982 – January 19, 2012) 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.
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Who is Sarah Burke Dating?
According to our records, Sarah Burke married to Rory Bushfield. As of December 1, 2023, Sarah Burke’s is not dating anyone.
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On January 10, 2012, Burke was seriously injured while training on the Park City Mountain Resort Eagle superpipe in Park City, Utah. This is the same superpipe where snowboarder Kevin Pearce was seriously injured in 2009. Onlookers reported that Burke had completed a trick fairly well yet fell onto her head, and the accident did not appear to be very severe. Moments later, however, she went into cardiac arrest while still on the ski slope. She was resuscitated and airlifted to the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, where she was reported to have been placed in a medically induced coma. The following day, she underwent neurosurgery to repair a tear in a vertebral artery. She died of her injuries on January 19, 2012. According to her publicist, Burke’s injuries had resulted in “irreversible damage to her brain due to lack of oxygen and blood after cardiac arrest.” Her organs and tissues were donated as she requested before her death. Because the event at which she fell was unsanctioned and hosted by Burke’s sponsor Monster Energy, Burke was not covered under the insurance policy that applied to her when she competed for the Canada Freestyle Ski Association. The day after Burke’s death, her agent established a website to raise $550,000 to help pay her estimated $200,000 hospital costs and create “a foundation to honour Sarah’s legacy and promote the ideals she valued and embodied.” On February 23, 2014, Sarah’s ashes were spread in the mountains over Sochi, Russia, during the 2014 Olympic Games. Her former coach, Trennon Paynter, spread them on the highest point at Rosa Khutor complex, and in the halfpipe.
Facts & Trivia
Sarah Ranked on the list of most popular Skier. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Sarah Burke celebrates birthday on September 3 of every year.
At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, the IOC refused permission for snowboarder Torah Bright to wear a tribute sticker to Burke during the Games. Before the finals of halfpipe started, the event volunteers paid tribute to Burke by skiing in a heart-shaped formation.
What happened to Sarah Burke?
His wife, Sarah Burke, the pioneering halfpipe skier, had fallen on a routine trick during some work in a halfpipe in the nearby mountains, which caused a cascade of disaster, a ruptured vertebral artery, a brain hemorrhage, cardiac arrest, a cessation of oxygen to the brain. Nine days later, she died, on Jan.
How old is Sarah Burke?
29 years (1982–2012)
Is Rory Bushfield married?
Sarah Burke
Who is Sarah Burke's husband?
Rory Bushfield
Has anyone died freestyle skiing?
Sarah Burke , a Canadian freestyle skiing pioneer and champion, has died from injuries she suffered in a fall after a training run last week in Park City, Utah. Burke, 29, suffered “irreversible damage to her brain due to lack of oxygen and blood after cardiac arrest,” her publicist said in a statement.