Career accomplishments
2005: Nominated for Laureus World Sport Award - World Alternative Sportsperson Of The Year, ranked #1 in Powder Magazine's Reader Poll and won Powder Magazine Full Throttle Award
2004: Ranked #2 again in Powder Magazine Reader Poll, won Powder Magazine Full Throttle award, won Powder Magazine Best Helmet Cam award, went ski BASE jumping all over Europe, double front flip off the Eiger and got married in Thailand
2003: Ranked #2 in Powder Magazine Reader Poll, completed his first of over 700 BASE jumps
2002: Ranked #1 in Powder Magazine Reader Poll and invented a revolutionary powder ski; The Volant Spatula with reverse camber and reverse sidecut
2001: ESPN Action Sport Awards Skier of the Year, Red Bull Ultra Cross Big Air Comp - 1st and Ranked #1 in Skiing Magazine Top 25 skiers in North America
Competition results
2000:
Nea Award Winner - Freeskiing Male
Bridge Day Championships - 5th.
3rd Exit Style Winner of Judges Choice Award
Gravity Games Big Mtn. Champion, Gravity Games Skiercross - 6th
Gravity Games Big Air - 7th
X-Games Skiercross - 5th
Japan Core Games Skiercross Champion- 3rd.
Johnny Moseley Invitational - 3rd.
1999:
ESPN X-Games Skier Cross - 2nd.
IFSA World Tour of Freeskiing - 5th.
US Freeskiing Nationals - 5th
World Tour event at Andermatt - 3rd.
1998:
IFSA World Tour of Freeskiing Champion- 2nd.
European Freeskiing Champion- 2nd.
U.S. Freeskiing Nationals - 2nd.
Canadian Freeskiing Championships-4th.
Nagano Winter Olympics Moguls 1998 - 5th
1996:
IFSA Overall World Tour Champion - Unofficial tour- 4th.
European Freeskiing Champion
U.S. Freeskiing Championships-4th.
World Extreme Skiing Championships-6th.
1995:
U.S. National Freeskiing Champion
South American Freeskiing Champion
Pro Mogul Tour Overall - 16th.
1st seed and Japan Super Mogul - 7th.
1994:
South American Freeskiing Champion
World Extreme Skiing Championships-2nd
Pro Mogul Tour Overall-8th
1st seed and Pro Mogul Tour Event at Copper Mtn. - 1st.
Filmography
In Deep: The Skiing Experience (2009)
Claim (2008)
Seven Sunny Days (2007)
Steep (2007)
Push (2006)
Yearbook (2005)
The Hit List (2005)
Warren Miller's Higher Ground (2005)
Focused (2004)
Ski Movie III: The Front Line (2002)
Ski Movie 2: High Society (2001)
Ski Movie (2000)
There's Something About McConkey (2000)
1999
Global Storming (1999)
Sick Sense (1998)
Pura Vida (1997)
Walls of Freedom (1995)
TGR's The Realm (1994)
Immersion (2002)
Nick Nixon's Alpine Rapture (1993)
Nick Nixon's Ski Theater (1992)
Death
On March 26, 2009, Shane McConkey died while skiing in the Dolomite Mountains in Italy. After performing a double back flip, McConkey intended to glide away in his wingsuit, "a stunt he's executed a number of times," according to a statement from Matchstick Productions, the company whose films McConkey often starred in. But McConkey struggled to release his skis. By the time he got them off, he'd been free-falling for 12 seconds and was too close to the ground for his wingsuit or parachute to do him any good. His parachute did not malfunction; it was never deployed. He died on the scene.
References
^ Vancouver Sun obituary
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^ Casimiro, Steve (March 26, 2009). "Skier Shane McConkey Killed BASE-Jumping in Italy". the adventure life. Steve Casimiro. http://www.theadventurelife.org/2009/03/skier-shane-mcconkey-killed-in-base-jumping-accident. (Steve Casimiro is the West Coast Editor of National Geographic Adventure.)
^ McConkey's friend and ski-BASE partner provides an account of accident
External links
d* Article on Freeskier's Snowpedia
Shane McConkey interview in The Ski Journal
Mental Floss - A guide to the Volant Spatula, the world greatest powder ski
Shane McConkey March 2009 Interview - Raw Video
Article on the death of Shane McConkey
Shane's last blog post with pictures of where he died
A Ski Channel video of Shane at Squaw a couple of days before he died
A Tribute To Shane McConkey on SuperStoker
Complete coverage of Shane McConkey on The Adventure Life
Dying to Fly- Article in Men's Journal
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