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Seattle, WA
Profession: Mountaincross/BMX rider
Birth date: Oct 24, 1981
Hometown: Seattle, Washington, USA
Current Residence: Seattle, Washington, USA, and
Blue Mountains, AUS (Winter)
Post Olympic
After capturing the 2008 USA Cycling BMX
National Championship title, Jill Kintner went on
to win the bronze medal in BMX racing in the
sport¹s Olympic debut this summer in Beijing.
Kintner started racing BMX locally in Seattle at
age 8, and by 16 was competing professionally all
around the world. As a BMX racer, Kintner has an
estimated 70+ career wins, including, in 2002, the
National Bicycle League Women's pro title and
American Bicycle Association World Championship.
After accomplishing most of her goals with BMX
racing, owning nearly every major title, Kintner
decided to change course in 2002 and switched to
the larger wheeled sport of mountain bike racing,
mainly competing in the gravity event of
"mountaincross" aka "4x"‹where she is the
three-time U.S. national champion, two-time UCI
World Cup Overall Champion, and the three-time UCI
World Champion in '05, '06, and 2007.
Results
Jill Kintner Becomes First American Female
BMX Olympic Athlete
We’re not often talking about BMX Racing
but it is going to be in the Olympics so it’s
worth giving a little bit of play. The latest news
is that Jill Kintner has officially been selected
as the first American female on the BMX Racing
Olympic team.
Because of how the qualifying events have gone,
Kintner is currently the sole American woman
guaranteed a spot in the Olympics.
After a strong showing at the final BMX
women’s qualifying race in China this past
weekend, Jill Kintner, 26, earned a place on the US
Olympic team in the new discipline of BMX Racing.
Kintner is the only American woman with a
guaranteed spot to compete when the sport makes its
Olympic debut in August.
Kintner overcame two knee injuries while
training, first declining surgery after an ACL
rupture in order to stay on track to compete. A
second injury forced her to have arthroscopic
surgery to trim her meniscus and remove scar
tissue, just weeks before the final race. Kintner
was able to recover through physical therapy and
intensive training and successfully raced her way
to the Olympic team, just one point ahead of
training partner, roommate and competitor Arielle
Martin.
After clinching the spot, Kintner wrote on her
website, “I am proud of myself considering how
much I have had to overcome to make this happen. It
has been a rough journey and a little bitter sweet
even now, as Arielle and I have been working so
hard together.”
Kintner is a three time Mountaincross world
champion, which is a discipline of downhill
mountain biking that pits four racers against each
other on a technical course with jumps. Although
she maintained a successful BMX racing career as a
teenager, Kintner transitioned to mountain biking
in 2002 for a new challenge. With the induction of
BMX racing in the 2008 Olympics, Kintner made the
switch back to her childhood sport for the
potential to compete in Beijing.
Raised in Seattle, WA, Kintner has been living
at the Olympic Training Center near San Diego, CA
since January in order to have access to top
trainers and to practice on the race track that is
an exact replica of the BMX track that will be used
in the Beijing Olympics.
When not racing, Kintner pursues her passion for
graphic design and creates art and imagery for her
website www.jillkintner.com.
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