Persona
Sarah Burke
- Specialità
- Recitazione
- Nascita
- 3 settembre 1982 · 29 anni
- Decesso
- 19 gennaio 2012
- Origine
- Canada
Percorso Professionale
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.
