Jamie Barrow
Jamie Barrow (born 1991) is a British snowboarder. In 2018, at the speed of 93.2 mph, he broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest speed on a snowboard while being towed by a vehicle (a Maserati Levante) in St. Moritz, Switzerland.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] In 2022, Barrow broke his record for the fastest speed on a snowboard while being towed by a vehicle (an Audi e-tron GT) with a two-way average of 117.15 mph and a top speed of 131.11 mph.[8]
In 2022 emails between Barrow and zipline manufacturing company Terra Nova were featured in several news articles about the death of a zipline guide at Stowe Mountain Resort, which is owned by Vail Resorts. The employee was killed after a lanyard connecting him to the zipline at Stowe failed and emails showed that Barrow, who was working as the Director of Operations Training and Risk Management for Vail Resorts, had previously argued against Terra Nova's recommendation of replacing the zip lanyards on an annual basis. The Vermont Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that the employee "would not have been killed if the primary attachment lanyard had been replaced." and fined Vail $27,306.[9][10][11]
References[edit]
- ^ "British Snowboard sensation Jamie Barrow breaks Guinness World Record for fastest speed on a snowboard, towed by a vehicle (Maserati Levante)". www.prnewswire.com.
- ^ "Snowboarder's new world record of 150km/h behind a Maserati!". Sunshine Coast Daily.
- ^ "New world speed record on a snowboard; towed by Maserati Levante - Times of India". The Times of India.
- ^ "Snowboarder towed by Maserati breaks speed record". UPI.
- ^ "Maserati Levante tows Jamie Barrow to set Guinness World Record for fastest speed on snowboard". The Financial Express. 20 February 2018.
- ^ "Jamie Barrow Breaks World Record For Fastest Speed on Snowboard While Towed by Vehicle". TransWorld SNOWboarding. 23 May 2018.
- ^ "Maserati Levante Helps Set a New Guinness World Record » AutoGuide.com News". AutoGuide.com. 20 February 2018.
- ^ "World Record by Jamie Barrow: Fastest speed on a snowboard of 211kph". AWE365. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
- ^ Brouwer, Derek. "A Stowe Zip-Line Guide Was Killed When a $26 Piece of Equipment Failed. Will His Death Spur Change?". Seven Days. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
- ^ Cutler, Calvin. "Investigation: Stowe zip line death was preventable". www.wcax.com. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
- ^ "Vail Resorts fined $27,000 for safety violations after Stowe zip line death". Burlington Free Press. Associated Press. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
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