A D V E R T I S E M E N T My Info| Name: | Cara Beth Burnside | | Lives In: | Encinitas, CA
United States | | Gender: | Male | | Description: | Cara-Beth Burnside is the foremost pioneer of women's competitive skateboarding. Cara-Beth began competing in professional men's contests in 1991 and helped put women's professional skateboarding on the map. In 2003 Cara-Beth was named Transworld Magazine's Female Skateboarder of the Year. As a skateboarder, Burnside has won more than 16 titles in competitions such as the X Games, All Girl Skate Jam, Vans Triple Crown, Slam City Jam and Soul Bowl, and in 2004 she was named Female Vert Skater of the Year by World Cup Skating.[1]As a snowboarder, she was on the first United States Olympic snowboarding team at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, where she placed 4th.[2] She has also won titles at the snowboarding Grand Prix, the X Games and the Vans Triple Crown.In 1998 she received gold medals for both the snowboarding halfpipe event in the 1998 Winter X Games and the skateboard vert event at the 2003 Summer X Games. She is the only woman to have received gold medals at both competitions.Burnside is sponsored by a number of clothing and gear manufacturers, including Vans and Hurley International. She is the first woman to have a signature skate shoe. |
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