Jill Kintner

Jill Kintner

Cyclist infobox
ridername = Jill Kintner


image_size = 270
image_caption = At the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
fullname = Jill Kintner
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age |1981|10|24
height = 1.7m (5'7" Imperial) [http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=755/bio/index.html nbcolympic.com Kintner biography.] ]
weight = 61.24kg (135lbs. Imperial)
country = USA
currentteam = GT Bicycles
discipline = Bicycle Motocross (BMX)
role = Racer
ridertype = Off Road
protourrank =
europetourrank =
amateuryears =
amateurteams =
proyears = 1999
2000
2000-2001
2002
2002-2003
2004-2007
2007-Present
proteams = Clayborne
Team Burien
CC Racing
Sharp Sprockets
Staats Bicycles
Retired
GT Bicycles
majorwins =
updated = September 5, 2008
medaltemplates =

Jill Kintner (born October 24, 1981, from Burien, Washington, [ [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/olympics/2004437029_olynotes25.html Seattletimes.com May 25, 2008 article] ] USA) is a professional American "Mid School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) and professional mountain cross (four-cross or 4X) racer whose prime competitive years were 1995-2002 in BMX; 2004-present in mountain cross. She switched to the mountain cross discipline full-time after her BMX retirement early in the 2004 season (many sources have her retiring after the 2002 season, but this is incorrect [ [http://www.kidssportsnet.com/bmxracing/bmxchica/standings.htm Kidssportnet.com ABA and NBL 2003 national standings.] ] [ [http://www.bmxonline.com/article.jsp?ID=21027089 bmxonline.com points standings listings. Search for "Kintner" (without quotation marks)] ] ).

Biography

Kintner is from Burien, Washington. She began riding BMX in July 1989 at seven years of age ["American BMXer" September 1989 Vol.11 No.8 pg.56 (points table for district washington 01. It is the first time her name appears in the points tabulations)] and claimed her first national win in the combined 7-8 Girls Class at the American Bicycle Association (ABA) Great Northwest Nationals in Sumner, Washington, on August 17, 1990 (Day 1). ["BMX Plus!" January 1991 Vol. 14 No. 1 pg. 56 (results)] It was her very first national-level race, she also won on Day 2. At the age of nine in 1990, she received her first sponsorship from the Bike Factory and turned professional in 1995 at 14 years of age. [ [http://www.jillkintner.com/profile.html Jill Kinter Profile page.] ]

Jill Kintner is at the forefront of a relatively small worldwide group of professional female racers in BMX and mountain bike racing. She began riding BMX while growing up, as her father owned his own BMX track in Washington. She began competing professionally at age 14 [ [http://www.jillkintner.com/profile.html Jill Kintner's Profile.] ] and ended up capturing more than 70 BMX wins. [ [http://www.bikemag.com/features/onlineexclusive/kintner_olympic_ambition/ bikemag.com article.] ] However by 2002 BMX racing was wearing, as Jill had to work hard over and over again to find sponsorship money, and sponsors did not always come through or were slow to come through.Fact|date=September 2008 At a race in Chico, California, in 2002, Jill ran out of determination to continue.Fact|date=September 2008 After that she came to love riding rugged mountain trails as opposed to the constructed courses of BMX. She found mountain biking and the more stable bikes used in that sport were for her and saw mountain cross as the summer version of skiing. It was easier to find money for this activity, as well.Fact|date=September 2008 Despite this she continued racing BMX practically full time for approximately another season and a half until April 2004. At that time she made the switch to full time Mountain Bike racing competition. BMX apparently faded from her thoughts (albeit she would race BMX at least once after that), until a phone call came as she sat in her mom's kitchen in the fall of 2006.Fact|date=September 2008 Mike King, a former BMX and mountain bike racer in his own right and presently the director of BMX for USA Cycling, urged her to come back. At first she was reluctant. Her father, Peter Kintner, whom she considered her wingman for mountain cross, had recently died of heart failure at age 62. She said in an interview at the Olympic Training Center that she had a really hard time coming back to BMX and felt that she did not want to be in the sport she had left and left for a reason.Fact|date=September 2008 She at first had a lukewarm response to the news that BMX had become an Olympic sport but had a change of heart:

She did not, however, doubt her ability to win. After concentrating on mountain cross racing for three years, she did came out of BMX retirement beginning in early 2007 obstensively to supplement her mountain cross training. [ [http://www.velonews.com/article/12232 May 11, 2007 Velonews.com article.] ] She won her first BMX race the first time back. [ [http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=755/bio/index.html nbcolympics.com Kintner biography] ] Eventually, feeling that she might need the Summer Olympics or that perhaps that the US needed her, and despite the need to rehab her injured knee, she went forward. [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/sports/olympics/27kintner.html nytimes.com May 27, 2008 article.] ] She made the switch to racing BMX full-time to try to make the 2008 USA BMX Olympic team. On June 2, 2008, she won a spot on the team after coming in in sixth place at the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) World Championships held in Taiyuan, China, out of a field of 32 racers, making the top 16. [ [http://outside-blog.away.com/blog/2008/06/jill-kintner-ma.html Outside-blog.away.com Olympic BMX team article] ] Kintner resided in San Diego, California, so that she could train at the Olympic Training Center. [ [http://www.redbullusa.com/jillkintner#page=ArticlePage.1132618601022-120382841.0 Redbullusa.com article.] ] She did not participate in the opening ceremonies of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad like the Parade of Nations. She joined her fellow Olympians in Beijing just before her events were held on August 19, 2008. Her efforts paid off and her Olympic dream led her to winning the Bronze medal in BMX racing. Since the women's division main final was run before the men's, and since this was the sport's debut in the Olympics, she is the first American to win a medal in that sport. It is perhaps unlikely that Kintner will return to Olympic competion for the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London in 2012 since she has stated that it is an almost certainty that 2008 was a one time thing. [ [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/olympics/2004437029_olynotes25.html Seattletimes.com May 25, 2008 article] ]

Retirement

Kitner retired early in the 2004 season at age 22 to pursue a career in Mountaincross racing fulltime because she was burned out on BMX competition, [ [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/olympics/2004437029_olynotes25.html Seattletimes.com May 25, 2008, article] ] was "bored" and had reached her "potential". [ [http://www.daleholmes.com/interviews/jill.shtml 2002 DaleHolmes.com interview at his website.] ] Some sources have her retiring after the end of the 2002 season, but this is incorrect. She raced BMX during the 2003 season including the 2003 ABA Grandnational. She came in 5th in Pro Girls. ["Moto Mag" January/February 2004 Vol. 3 No. 1 pg. 28] Indeed, she raced well into 2004 as she concentrated on Mountaincross. Her last regular BMX race was possibly The NBL Gator Nationals in Avon Park, Florida, on April 4, 2004. She finished in second place in Elite Women. ["Moto Mag" May/June 2004 Vol. 2 No. 3 pg. 26 {results}] Her last race before her comeback seems to have been the ABA Silverdollar Nationals in Reno, Nevada, on January 8, 2005, in which she came in in eighth place. [ [http://www.fatbmx.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=163 fatbmx.com Race report] ] She had previously raced MTB cross country parttime since 1997.

BMX career milestones

Note: Professional firsts are on the national level unless otherwise indicated.
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Career factory and major bike shop sponsors

Note: This listing only denotes the racer's primary sponsors. At any given time a racer could have numerous ever-changing co-sponsors. Primary sponsorships can be verified by BMX press coverage and sponsors' advertisements at the time in question. When possible exact dates are used.
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Amateur/Junior Women

*Bike Factory: Early 1990-September 1990
*Northwest BMX: April 1991-thru Summer 1994

Professional/Elite Women

*Clayborne: -December 1999
*Team Burien: January 2000-Early 2000
*CC Racing: Early 2000-2001
*Sharp Sprockets: -October 2002
*Staats Bicycles: December 2002-December 2003. The NBL Christmas Classic in Columbus, Ohio, in December 2002 was her first race on Staats Bicycles.
*TLD (Troy Lee Designs):January 2004-Mid 2004
*"Retired from fulltime BMX competition for two-and-a-half years." (Mid 2004-2007)
*GT Bicycles: January 1, 2006 [ [http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140334 announcement of GT signing Kintner in 2006] ] -Present. Kintner was sponsored by GT as a mountain bike racer since 2006. She returned to BMX on a parttime basis sponsored by GT in early 2007. She returned fulltime at the beginning of 2008.

Career bicycle motocross titles

Note: Listed are District, State/Provincial/Department, Regional, National and International titles. "Defunct" refers to the fact of that sanctioning body in question no longer existing at the start of the racer's career or at that stage of his/her career. Junior Women division is for 17-18 year old women, Elite Women for 19 and over regardless of her being amateur or professional in the UCI. In that light, a amateur would be racing professionals as well as other amateurs, her placing therefore will be listed in the professional section even if she is still an amateur.
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Amateur/Junior Women

American Bicycle Association (ABA)
*"1990 8 Girls Gold Cup West Champion"
*1990 8 Girls Race of Champions Champion
*"1991 9 Girls US Open West Champion"
*"1991 9 Girls Gold Cup West Champion"
*"1991 Washington-1 (WA-01) Girls District No.1"
*"1994 12 Girls Washington State Champion"
*"1994 12 Girls US Open West Champion"
*"1994 12 Girls Gold Cup West Champion"
*1995 14-16 Girls Cruiser Grandnational Champion
*"1996 Girls Cruiser Washington-1 (WA-01) District No. 1".
*1996 13 Girls Grandnational Champion

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*
*"1997 16 Girls World Challenge Champion"

*See note in professional section

Professional/Elite Women

National Bicycle League (NBL)
*"2002 Pro Girl National No. 1"American Bicycle Association (ABA)
*2002 Pro Girls Race of Champions Champion
*"2002 Pro Girls World Champion"

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*

*At the World Championships held in Taiyuan, China, on June 2, 2008, Kintner came in in sixth place; however, it was enough to guarantee her the lone automatic women's spot on the US BMX Olympic Team and she edged out her friend and roommate (at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California), Arielle Martin, who crashed in the quarter-finals, by only one point in USA Cycling's 17-race points series; she had 129 points to Martin's 128. Kintner had made up and exceeded a 13-point deficit with her sixth place and Martin's crash. [ [http://www.fatbmx.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4753 fatbmx.com June 6, 2008 article.] ] Kintner is the sole US Women's representative in the BMX racing event. USA Cycling
*"2008 Elite Women National Champion" International Olympic Committee (IOC)
*"Games of the XXIX Olympiad (2008 Summer Olympics)":USA BMX Teammates: Kyle Bennett, Mike Day, Donny Robinson:Discipline: Women's BMX:Location: Laoshan BMX Field Beijing, China:Number of competitors: 16:Positions::"Event Results Wednesday, August 20":"Women's First Seeding Run†:" 39.031secs:"Women's Second Seeding Run:" 37.913secs:"Seconds behind leader:" +1.253sec (7th place):"Seeding Run leader:" Anne-Caroline Chausson FRA 36.660secs:Kintner advances to Semi Finals. :"Event Results Thursday, August 21" :Postponed due to rain. Rescheduled.
:"Event Results Friday August 22" :"Women's Semi Finals: (Overall after three heats of Run 2)" Second place.
:"Semi Finals Run 2 winner‡:" Laëtitia Le Corguillé FRA:Kintner advances to Final.:"Women's Final (Medal Round one run of Main*):" Third-place Bronze medal.:"Silver medal winner:" Laëtitia Le Corguillé FRA:"Gold medal winner:" Anne-Caroline Chausson FRA

:† [http://www.nbcolympics.com/cycling/resultsandschedules/rsc=CBW001900/index.html Time Trial data from www.nbcolympic.com] :‡ [http://www.nbcolympics.com/cycling/resultsandschedules/rsc=CBW001200/index.html Semi Final data from www.nbcolympic.com] :* [http://www.nbcolympics.com/cycling/resultsandschedules/rsc=CBW001100/index.html Final (Medal round) data from www.nbcolympic.com]
Independent Pro Series Championships and Invitational Races
*2003 RM59 Tropical BMX Challenge 16 & Over Money Open Champion

The Robbie Miranda 59 (RM59) Tropical BMX Challenge is a Invitational BMX exhibition race created and promoted by professional BMX racer Robbie Miranda (whose father is Puerto Rican"Moto Mag" January/February 2004 Vol.3 No.1 pg.20] ) in Baceloneta, Puerto Rico. It is sanctioned by the Puerto Rican BMX Association (PRBMXA) for the local amateur racers who come out to race and see the BMX stars they only see in the BMX Press since no nationals are held by any major sanctioning body in Puerto Rico. What is particularly notable in Kintner's victory in this instance was it came against the men. Not common in that age group.

BMX Racing traits and habits

*She was reputedly the most aggressive pro in the Girl Pro class. Reflecting this, she was disqualified for prompting a collision with Kim Hayashi in the last turn of the Pro/Am 14 & Over Girl's Open at the NBL Christmas Classic in Columbus, Ohio, in December 2002. ["Moto Mag" January/February 2003 Vol.2 No.1 pg.29] In a interview with fellow BMX Pro Dale Holmes on his website she gave a response to her alleged aggressiveness:

That aggression helped her when she went up against the men in male pro classes. While it is not at all unusual for a girl to beat a boy in child classes of age 5 and under up to age 10 or 11, and not so uncommon anymore for them to beat the boys in the 12-14 boys classes. (Cheri Elliott and Melanie Cline were famous for it when it "was" unusual.) It is still rare for a woman to defeat males 16 years and older. It is thought that the strength and size difference is too great. Jill Kintner is one female who demonstrates that it is possible, as she did it in a 2003 Robbie Miranda 59 (RM59) Tropical BMX Challenge race held in Barcelonta, Puerto Rico. The then-22-year-old Kintner defeated seven professional males in the 16 & Over Money Open main. She started in lane eight, the far outside lane on tracks with a left-hand bending first turn, usually a clear disadvantage to all but the most powerful and/or aggressive racers. She overcame this disadvantage by aggressively cutting over into the other lanes after the gate fell. She ended up in second by the first turn and then overtook the first-place racer before the finish line, winning the event. ["Moto Mag" January/February 2004 Vol.3 No.1 pg.29] She is not the only female racer who has had some success against male competitors. Pro British professional racer Shanaze Reade when she won the 19 & Over British Elite "Men" National No. 1 in 2006, despite being only 17 at the time. [ [http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2006/12/30/brightest_hopes_primed_to_make.html December 30, 2006, guardian UK blog.] ] [ [http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/nmsruntime/saveasdialog.asp?lID=3664&sID=3576 2006 British Cycling results] ] She was the British Women's representatives in BMX racing in the 2008 Beijing, China Olympic games, Kintner's direct competitor. In the competition's Main, the Medal Round, Reade, who was most favored to win the Gold medal, was in second behind the French leader Anne-Caroline Chausson, tried to overtake her on the inside in the final turn. Instead, she collided with her rear wheel and fell with most of the rest of the field passing her. Chausson went on to victory with her countrymen Laëtitia Le Corguillé, taking the Silver. Kintner, who was in fourth at the time of the crash, inherited the third position and received the Bronze medal.

Mountain Bike Career Record

Kitner started racing mountain bikes part-time in 1997 alongside her BMX career. She raced full-time in 2003 at 21, specializing in the 4X Mountain cross discipline.Supplemental Cyclist infobox
secondtype = Mountain Bike Racing


nickname =
height = height|m=1.7 [http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=755/bio/index.html nbcolympic.com Kintner biography.] ]
weight = convert|61.24|kg|lb|abbr=on|lk=on)
country = USA
currentteam = GT Bicycles
discipline = Mountaincross (4x)
role = Racer
ridertype = Off Road
protourrank =
europetourrank =
amateuryears =
amateurteams =
proyears = 2002
2002-2003
2003-2005
2006-Present
proteams = Intense/Troy Lee Designs
Staats Bicycles
Yeti Cycles
GT Bicycles
majorwins =
updated = June 12, 2008

Started racing: Part-time in 1997 alongside her BMX career. Full-time in 2003 at 21

Sub Discipline: 4X Mountain cross

Career MTB factory and major Non-factory sponsors

Note: This listing only denotes the racer's primary sponsors. At any given time a racer could have numerous co-sponsors. Primary sponsorships can be verified by MTB press coverage and sponsor's advertisements at the time in question. When possible exact dates are given.
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Amateur

No amateur status.

Professional

*Intense Cycles/Troy Lee Designs: ?-December 2002
*Staats Bicycles/Fox Shox: December 2002-September 2003 Staats Bicycles sponsored both her BMX and MTB racing in 2003.
*Fox Shox: September 2003-December 2003. She was largely a privateer (i.e., privately funding herself on the MTB circuit), for the entire first season of her MTB racing career. [http://www.transcendmagazine.com/archives/2003/12/kintner-signs-with-yeti-for-2004.html transcendmagazine.com announcement of December 12, 2003 signing.] ]
*Yeti Cycles: December 12, 2003-December 2005
*GT (Gary Turner) Bicycles: January 1, 2006-present.

Career Mountain Bike Racing (MTB) titles

Note: Listed are Regional, National and International titles.
----Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)
*"2003 Bronze Medal Women's 4-Cross World Champion"
*"2004 Silver Medal Women's 4-Cross World Champion"
*"2005, 2006, 2007 Gold Medal Women's 4-Cross World Champion"
*"2007 Women's 4-Cross World Cup Champion"National Off Road Bicycle Association (NORBA)
*"2003, 2005 U.S. National Women's Mountain Cross Championships Champion"USA Cycling

Independent Championship races and series
*2005, 2006 Jeep King of the Mountain Women's Champion

ignificant injuries

Kintner Ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in a December 2007 crash. [ [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/olympics/2004437029_olynotes25.html Seattletimes.com May 25, 2008 article] ] She reinjured the chronically problematic knee during a training crash in late April 2008. [ [http://hosted.stats.com/olympics/story.asp?i=20080531123545330196304&ref=hea&tm=&src=OLYMPICS_PREMIUM Hosted-Stats May 31, 2008, Associated Press article post.] ] She underwent surgery on her right knee on May 4, 2008, to repair her meniscus. [ [http://www.nbcolympics.com/newscenter/news/newsid=127026.html nbcolympics.com May 5, 2008 news article] ] [ [http://www.stanton-company.com/2008/06/03/congratulations-to-jill-kintner-on-olympic-qualification/ Stanton-Company.com article] ] She is wearing a leg brace and has put off major surgery until after the 2008 Summer Olympics, [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/sports/olympics/27kintner.html May 27, 2008, New York Times article.] ] possibly in September or October 2008. [ [http://www.kidzworld.com/article/13704-jill-kintner-interview Kidz World Summer 2008 interview] ]

Images

* [http://assets.loopd.com/RFS/1/0719b389-d516-4adf-8d79-621677c365aal.jpgCurrent image of Kintner]
* [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2008/05/23/2004435449.jpgCurrent image of Kintner]
* [http://www.nbcolympics.com/mm/photo/athletes/general/11/91/75/119175_m03.jpgCurrent image of Kintner]

Miscellaneous and Trivia

According to her mother, Jill is a brilliant artist and has amazing talent for graphic design; her design work can be seen on her personal site. [www.jillkintner.com] She was in a fine arts and design program at the California College of Arts before resuming her BMX career. [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/olympics/376090_olybmx22.html]

Retired

Kintner retired from mountain biking at the beginning of 2008 to resume her BMX career full-time to pursue a Gold Medal in BMX at the Beijing, China, 2008 Summer Olympic games. In those games she came in in third place in the BMX Finals winning a Bronze Medal.

Notes and references

External links

* [http://www.ababmx.com/ The American Bicycle Association (ABA) Website]
* [http://www.nbl.org/ The National Bicycle League (NBL) Website]
* [http://www.jillkintner.com/home.html Jill Kintner's Official Website]
* [http://olympics.gtbicycles.com/rt_Jill_Kintner.html GT Bicycles.com profile of Kintner]
* [http://www.bikemag.com/features/onlineexclusive/kintner_olympic_ambition/ December 6, 2007, bikemag.com article]
* [http://outside-blog.away.com/blog/2008/06/jill-kintner-ma.html Outside-blog.away.com June 2, 2008, Olympic BMX team article]
* [http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140334 announcement of GT's signing of Kintner in 2005]
* [http://expn.go.com/expn/story?id=3303980 Dual May 21, 2008, EXPN.go.com interview with fellow BMX racer Mike Day]
* [http://www.usacycling.org/results/index.php?compid=186217 USA Cycling Career race results for Jill Kintner]
* [http://www.velonews.com/article/12232 May 11, 2007, Interview with Kintner about the future of Mountaincross and BMX Olympic thoughts]


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