Rory Bushfield (born May 30, 1983) is a Canadian professional
skier, filmmaker, and
reality show
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 19 ...
star.
Bushfield is a former member of Canada's World Cup team, skiing moguls. He has also competed in
slopestyle 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 were married in
Pemberton, British Columbia
Pemberton is a village municipality in the Squamish-Lillooet region of southwestern British Columbia. This Pemberton Valley community is on the southwest shore of the Lillooet River and northeast shore of Pemberton Creek. On BC Highway 99, the ...
on September 25, 2010. Burke was a five-time gold medalist at the
Winter X Games
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and won the world championship in
halfpipe 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
Squamish, British Columbia
Squamish (; Squamish language, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, ; 2016 census population 19,512) is a community and a district municipality in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of British Columbia, located at th ...
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
References
External links
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1983 births
Canadian freeskiers
Extreme skiers
Sportspeople from Alberta
Living people
People from Squamish, British Columbia
People from Rocky View County
Participants in American reality television series