Sarah Burke is a world famous Canadian freestyle skier. Sarah was born in 1982 and grew up in Midland in Ontario, Canada. Sarah now lives in Whistler, British Columbia. Whistler was made internationally famous when it played host to the Winter Olympics.

In 2001 Sarah placed first in the US Freeskiing Open in the half-pipe competition and second in the slope style competition. Sarah won the first ever world championships in the half-pipe event. She has also won three Winter X Games gold medals for freestyle skiing. In 2001 Sarah won the ESPN’s Award for the female skier of the year. 2007 saw Sarah voted in as the best female action sports athlete at the ESPY awards. The ESPY awards are an annual award event held by the American cable television network ESPN.

Sarah has won gold and silver at the Winter X Games in the Superpipe event. In 2005 she achieved the silver medal and in 2007, 2008 and 2009 she won the gold medal for her efforts. Sarah has also participated in skiing films including Propaganda. In Propaganda she performs many of her trade mark moves. You can see her sliding huge rainbow rails and she performs a huge spin in the pipe as well as completing back flips with grace and ease.

As well as the many sporting achievements that Sarah has achieved she was voted onto the top one hundred of the FHM (United States) sexiest women list for 2006. Sarah has many other interests when not on the slopes which include mountain bike riding, working out at the gym, as well as some quieter activities including knitting, baking and cooking and painting.