Sarah Burke

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Sep 03, 1982 (42 years old)
Death date
Jan 19, 2012

Sarah Burke

Known For

Push
Movie 2006

Push

Athletes are pushing the limits of the sport of skiing to new heights everyday, Push takes you around the world with the likes of Simon Dumont, Shane McConkey, Mark Abma, Rory Bushfield, and many others to such locations as Japan, China, Norway, Terrace B.C., Aspen CO, and Whistler B.C.

Yearbook
Movie 2004

Yearbook

School is in session, featuring the honor students of skiing performing at the top of their game. Classrooms include: Bella Coola, B.C., Aspen CO, and the Alps of Norway. Senior Class member Shane McConkey returns with a performance of a lifetime, ski basing across the Alps and absolutely schooling his home of Lake Tahoe, CA. Sophomores Tanner Hall, Mark Abma and Eric Pollard deliver the best all around segments in skiing. The freshmen class of Ingrid Backstrom and Tanner Rainville will open people’s minds to the next level of skiing. The class of 2004 proves to be the best in skiing’s history.

Exact Science
Movie 2003

Exact Science

The first Pléhouse skiing video ever! The whole project was started in 2001 by three well-known pro freeskiers - Phil Larose, Thomas Rinfret and Phil Bélanger. EXACT SCIENCE brings you the progression of freeskiing from another angle... The Pros angle. Pléhouse is proud to bring you something fresh and new - something you have been waiting for!

Salad Days (TGR)
0h 30m
Movie 2002

Salad Days (TGR)

Salad Days, noun: a time of youthful indiscretion and delinquency What really are the salad days? TGR answers with the tightest in jib style and culture. Check it: backcountry air, cliffs, rails, urban, pipe, and more. Witness skiing’s new generation experience the sessions they wish would last forever. These are the happy days, the salad days as they say, when the boys are green in judgment, cold in blood.

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.

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