Rory Bushfield (born May 30, 1983) is a Canadian professional

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, filmmaker, and

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star. Bushfield is a former member of Canada's World Cup team, skiing moguls. He has also competed in

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skiing before focusing on backcountry skiing and filmmaking.
Bushfield was a contestant on the reality diving competition '' Splash (U.S. TV series), Splash'' beginning in March 2013. He won the competition, defeating Nicole Eggert, on May 7, 2013.

Personal life

Bushfield and fellow freeskier

Sarah Burke 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 s ...

were married in

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on September 25, 2010. Burke was a five-time gold medalist at the

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and won the world championship in

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in 2005. She died after a training accident in Utah on January 19, 2012. He started the Sarah Burke Foundation in her memory. Bushfield lives in

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with his dog, Dexter. He is also a single-engine pilot.

Filmography

* ''Strike Three'' – Level 1 2002 * ''Forward'' – Level 1 2003 * ''Yearbook'' – Matchstick Productions 2004 * ''The Hit List'' – Matchstick Productions 2005 * ''Push'' – Matchstick Productions 2006 * ''Seven Sunny Days'' – Matchstick Productions 2007 * ''Claim'' – Matchstick Productions 2008 * ''In Deep'' – Matchstick Productions 2009 * ''The Way I See It'' – Matchstick Productions 2010 * ''One for the Road'' – Teton Gravity Research 2011 * ''Attack of La Niña'' – Matchstick Productions 2011 * ''All.I.Can.'' – Sherpa 2011 * ''Super Heroes of Stoke'' – Matchstick Productions 2012 * ''The Dream Factory'' – Teton Gravity Research 2012 * ''Into The Mind'' – Sherpas Cinema 2013 * The Crash Reel - Documentary by Julian Cautherley & Lucy Walker 2013

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bushfield, Rory 1983 births Canadian freeskiers Extreme skiers Skiing people from Alberta Living people People from Squamish, British Columbia People from Rocky View County Participants in American reality television series