Mark McMorris

Canadian professional snowboarder, nicknamed Sparky, McLovin', McRib or The Closer, who specializes in slopestyle and big air events. While filming for Transworld Snowboarding's "Park Sessions" video in March 2011, Mark McMorris became the first person to land a Backside Triple Cork 1440. More recently, on 28 April 2018, McMorris landed the world first Double Cork off of a rail, the Front-Board Double Cork 1170 with melancholy grab.

McMorris has also left his mark at X-Games and other events. In 2012 and 2013, he won back-to-back gold medals in Winter X Games in the slopestyle event.

He competed in the slopestyle event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, where he won a bronze medal, Canada's first medal in those Games. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, he won a bronze medal in the slopestyle event, only 11 months after a snowboarding accident with near-fatal internal injuries.

McMorris has also appeared in many videos for Transworld Snowboarding, Burton, Redbull, CBC, Shredbots.