Jake Burton Carpenter, Who Ushered in Snowboarding as a Sport, Dies at 65

Jake Burton Carpenter, Who Ushered in Snowboarding as a Sport, Dies at 65

The New York Times-Business·2019-11-22 16:39

Jake Burton Carpenter, whose once-modest plan to make 50 snowboards a day turned into something far bigger — a global business that helped drive snowboarding into a popular Olympic sport — died on Wednesday in a hospital in Burlington, Vt. He was 65.

The cause was complications of testicular cancer, his company, Burton Snowboards, which is based in Burlington, said.

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