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	Burka, Petra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Burka first skated when she was six, having come to Canada with her parents two years earlier.
		Coached by her mother, the former Dutch champion Ellen Burka, she became a superb figure skater and won the Canadian junior championships in 1961.
		Burka was chosen Canadian woman athlete of the year in 1964 and 1965, and was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's outstanding athlete of the year, 1965.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=J0001111 (186 words)

	Burka, Petra
		Burka, Petra, figure skater (b at Amsterdam, Netherlands 17 Nov 1946).
		While competing in the 1962 Canadian figure-skating championships at age 15, Burka became the first woman skater to complete the triple salchow jump in competition.
		In 1964 she won the Canadian championships and placed 3rd in the Olympics and the world championships.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001111 (104 words)

	burka \| TutorGig.co.uk - The Tutorial Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Burka is also an alternative spelling of Burqa, an all enveloping cloak worn by Muslim women of Central and South Asia.
		Burka, Burka born 17 November 1946 is a former world champion figure skating figure skater and now Coach sport coach.
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	www.tutorgig.co.uk /searchtgig.jsp?keywords=burka (387 words)

	Petra Burka -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Petra Burka is a former World Champion Figure Skater and now coach.
		She was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands on 17th November 1946 and came to Canada with her parents in 1951.
		Since her retirement she took on coaching as well as being a commentator on figure skating events for CBC and CBS for Olympic, World, European and Canadian championships.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/petra_burka.htm (152 words)

	Skate Canada: About Skate Canada: Hall of Fame: Honoured Members (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Described as a dynamo on ice, Petra Burka was initially coached by her mother, former Dutch champion, Ellen Burka.
		In 1962, when Petra was15 years old, she was the Junior Ladies Champion.
		Petra was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1966, the Canadian Olympic Association Hall of Fame in 1972 and the Ontario Sport Legends Hall of Fame in 1995.
	www.skatecanada.ca /en/about_skate_canada/hall_of_fame/honoured_members/1997.cfm?pm=true (2130 words)

	Women in Coaching - CAC recognizes legendary coaches in honour of Women’s History Month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At 81, Ellen Burka’s legendary skills as a coach are in high demand at the Granite Club.
		"I’ve retired many times but somebody always wants me back,’ said Burka, whose most famous pupils are her daughter Petra Burka, a world champion in 1965, and the legendary Toller Cranston.
		A national skating champion in her native Netherlands, Burka immigrated to Canada in the 1950s and joined the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club.
	www.coach.ca /WOMEN/e/whats_new/2002/10_7_burka.htm (431 words)

	Benchmarks: Ellen Burka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ellen Burka has coached a number of great Canadian Skaters -- 8 of her skaters became world champions.
		Some skaters she coached are: Petra Burka (her daughter), Jay Humphrey, Toller Cranston, Cathy Lee Urwin, Chris Bowman, Tracy Wainman
		Comments from Petra, Toller, Louis Stong, parents of some of her students, Astra Burka (daughter).
	webhome.idirect.com /~rkaye/ProfilesInterviews/Benchmarks_Ellen_Burka.htm (111 words)

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		So when news spread a few months ago that she was in a car accident pretty much everyone in the LA music scene was there to support her.
		Petra is such a hero to many of us here in Frisco and I was kind of shocked when I heard about the accident.
		It said Petra was in a car >accident last summer and sustained serious injuries.
	www.smoe.org /lists/ecto/2000/v06.n367 (2302 words)

	Skate Canada: News & Views: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The main purpose of the camp was to provide athletes with on and off-ice workshops that would reflect an optimum training environment.
		The teams were led by Louis Stong, Skate Canada Director of Skating Development, Skate Canada National Coach Consultants Petra Burka, Marijane Stong, and Skate Canada Coach Consultant Julie Brault.
		Off the ice, the skaters participated in various seminars led by Petra Burka.
	www.skatecanada.ca /en/news_views/news/2004_2005/04_jun29_2.cfm (632 words)

	Champ in great company
		Barbara Ann Scott, Karen Magnussen, Petra Burka, Elizabeth Manley, Lynn Nightingale, Wendy Griner...
		Robinson has ranked in the world's top 10 just twice in her career (eighth in 2000 being her best).
		Scott, Magnussen and Burka were all world champions.
	www.canoe.ca /Slam030109/ska_can1-sun.html (740 words)

	WROC TV NEWS 8 NOW ROCHESTER NEW YORK - News 8 Then (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The ladies singles crown went to Petra Burka, who was having quite a year for herself.
		She'd already won the Canadian title, she'd also go on to win the world championship that season, along the way becoming the first woman in history to land a triple salchow during competition.
		Now despite her success, even an ardent figure skating fan might not recognize Petra Burka, but they might well recognize the subject of this week's pop quiz.
	www.wroctv.com /features/story.asp?id=191&f=News_8_Then (524 words)

	SKTG-World-Women, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		After Scott won in 1948, Canada was without a women's singles medallist until 1962, when Wendy Griner won silver in Prague.
		Petra Burka won bronze in 1964 in Dortmund, gold in 1965 in Colorado Springs, Colo., and bronze in 1966 in Davos.
		Karen Magnussen won bronze in 1971 in Lyon, France, silver in 1972 in Calgary and gold in 1973 in Bratislava in what was then Czechoslovakia.
	www.cp.org /premium/online/commercial/skating/050311/l031108A.html (584 words)

	netherlands5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Born in Amsterdam, the largest and capital city of the Netherlands, 1946, Petra Burka came to Canada with her parents, 1951.
		Ten years later, she was the Junior Canadian Skating Champion and the Senior Canadian Champion, 1964-66.
		For her accomplishments as one of the world’s pre-eminent figure skaters, Petra was voted Canada’s Outstanding Athlete of the Year, 1965, and Canada's Outstanding Female Athlete of the Year, 1964 and 1965.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume7/countries/netherlands5.html (107 words)

	Archives - Coaching Association of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This week's feature is Ellen Burka, long-time figure skating coach and choreographer.
		At 81, Ellen Burka's legendary skills as a coach are in high demand at Granite Club in Toronto.
		She's led skaters to 24 world championships, seven Olympic Games and 26 national titles.
	www.coach.ca /e/archives/2002/100702_whm_burka.htm (453 words)

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		Also Petra Burka 1946-figure skater, was born on this day at Amsterdam Netherlands in 1946.
		Coached by her mother Ellen, Burka started skating at age 6 and won the Canadian junior figure skating title in 1961 at 14.
		A year later, she became the world's first woman skater to land a triple salchow in competition.
	www1.sympatico.ca /news/otd/otd.98.11.17.html (1053 words)

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		She was said to combine steel and crystal with a soft flow over the ice.
		In 1966 she dethroned the World champion, Petra Burka of Canada, who had lost her strength along with many pounds in a weight reduction programme.
		Fleming did not skate her best in the 1968 Winter Olympics at Grenoble, despite winning.
	www.iceskate-magazine.com /page94.html (707 words)

	Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As she moved up through the beginner stages, she was constantly improving.
		A year later, Signe decided to join the Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club to train with Petra Burka.
		After Petra accepted the position of Coach Consultant of Skate Canada, Signe had to switch coaches.
	members.fortunecity.com /sk88/biography.htm (183 words)

	Geriatric Figure Skating Crew - Member Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		She represented the Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society and was coached by Don Laws (for 8 years).
		She also trained with Richard Callaghan and Petra Burka (1965 Ladies World Champion).
		She was the South Atlantic Juvenile, Intermediate, Novice and Junior Ladies champion and came in 3rd in Senior Ladies.
	www.gerfsc.com /members/helros.htm (342 words)

	Leaders and dreamers \| Sports \| Skating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Jim Hunter, Dave Irwin, Dave Murray, Steve Podborski and Ken Read gave the world a new euphemism for lunatics who take the shortest, most death-defying route down a ski hill: Crazy Canucks.
		And in figure skating, Barbara Ann Scott, Petra Burka, Don Jackson and Vern Taylor were all first to land various jumps that raised the bar for everyone who followed.
		Likewise, Elvis Stojko threw down the gauntlet with his precedent-setting combination jumps--the first quadruple/double toe loop, in 1991, and his flawless first quad-triple at a Grand Prix event in Hamilton, in 1997.
	www.macleans.ca /leadersanddreamers/sports_1.htm (1428 words)

	Tryst Feature Writer: Sky Gilbert
		Petra Burka doesn’t do her programs at East York.
		That horrible board member told me they don’t allow divorced women at Curling Club functions.
		I’d like to have my own program one day like Petra Burka.
	www.tryst3.com /issue7/gilbert3.html (1043 words)

	Women's History Month 2002 Games \| Status of Women Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Cecil Smith (1920s), Barbara Ann Scott (1940s), Suzanne Morrow (1940s), Barbara Wagner (1950s), Petra Burka (1960s), Karen Magnussen (1970s), Elizabeth Manley (late 1970s and 1980s), Tracey Wilson (1980s), Isabelle Brasseur (late 1980s and 1990s) and Jamie Salé (mid-1990s and 2000s).
		Lela Brooks (1920s and 1930s), Sylvia Burka (1970s), Nathalie Lambert (1980s and 1990s), Sylvie Daigle (1980s and 1990s), Susan Auch (late 1980s, 1990s and 2000s), Catriona Le May Doan (1990s and 2000s) and Clara Hughes (1990s and 2000s).
		Betty Baxter, Ellen Burka, Debbie Muir, Molly Killingbeck, Bev Smith and Danièle Sauvageau.
	www.swc-cfc.gc.ca /dates/whm/2002/game_e.html (852 words)

	Torstar Electronic Publishing Ltd. - Sports Feature
		There's also a list of Canadian groundbreakers in international competition, some of which would be informative to even the most die-hard fan.
		For example, although it's rather well-known that Kurt Browning performed the first-ever quadruple toe loop at the 1988 world championships in Budapest, perhaps you weren't aware that Petra Burka was the first woman in the world to perform a triple jump.
		It was a salchow, by the way, and it came at the 1965 world championships.
	www.argonotes.com /Articles/Rubin.html (603 words)

	CANOE -- SLAM! Sports - Columnists: sts Jones - Rocket has some jump
		Karen Magnussen won that at Worlds in Bratislava in 1973.
		Before that, there was Petra Burka in 1965 and Barbara Ann Scott in 1947 and 1948.
		The match was made last year in Edmonton.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Columnists/Jones/2005/01/21/pf-905803.html (593 words)

	Tryst Feature Writer: Sky Gilbert
		(He goes into the centre of the room) I don’t care (he acts very effeminate, with a lisp) I don’t care if your name issss Petra Burka!.
		You won’t see Petra at East York anymore.
		I mean who knows she might even come back to him.
	www.tryst3.com /issue7/gilbert4.html (1184 words)

	Welcome to Quinte Figure Skating Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Variations: double Salchow, triple Salchow, quadruple Salchow, one foot Salchow.
		Neat fact: The 1965 World Champion and 1964 World and Olympic bronze medallist Petra Burka became the first woman to complete a triple jump in competition - the triple Salchow-performed at the 1962 Canadian Championships in Toronto, Ontario.
		Toe Loop Jump: A toe jump in which the skater takes off from the back outside edge of the skating foot with assistance of the toe of the free foot and turns one rotation in the air, landing or the back outside edge of the take-off foot.
	www.quintefigureskating.com /skatingterms.htm (985 words)

	The Cutting Edge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		First triple landed in competition: Richard Button, 1952 Olympics
		First triple jump(women): Petra Burka, 1962, Canadian Championships
		First triple toe loop: Thomas Litz, 1964 Worlds
	www.geocities.com /Colosseum/Arena/1805/firsts.html (98 words)

	CNNSI.com - Historic Medal Tracker - Petra Burka - Canada
		CNNSI.com - Historic Medal Tracker - Petra Burka - Canada
		HISTORIC MEDAL TRACKER - PETRA BURKA - CANADA
		Giving A.J. Burnett five years and $50 million would be a Chan Ho Park-like mistake.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /olympics/2002/historic_medal_tracker/contestants/33376 (57 words)

	Skating Firsts - jumps - plus historical time capsule
		Gillis Grafstrom (in practice only) - Cecelia Colledge,
		Ronnie Robertson, 1955 World championships - Petra Burka,
		Canadian championships (first triple jump by a woman)
	www.jacksonskates.com /html/jumphist.html (250 words)

	TAPE LIST K TO O
		OFF ICE" - * Jamie Sale and David Pelletier
		OFF ICE" - * Ellen and Petra Burka
		OFF ICE" - * Shae - Lynn Bourne
	karategirl0077.tripod.com /sk8ingtapes/id7.html (300 words)

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