Personne
Sarah Burke
- Spécialité
- Interprétation
- Naissance
- 3 septembre 1982 · 29 ans
- Décès
- 19 janvier 2012
- Origine
- Canada
Parcours Professionnel
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.
