Jill Kintner

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Jill Kintner
Personal information
Full name Jill Kintner
Date of birth October 24, 1981 (1981-10-24) (age 26)
Country Flag of the United States United States
Height 1.7m (5'7" Imperial)
Weight 61.24kg (135lbs. Imperial)
Team information
Current team GT Bicycles
Discipline Bicycle Motocross (BMX)
Role Racer
Rider type Off Road
Professional team(s)
1999
2002
2002-2003
2004-2007
2007-Present		 Clayborne
Sharp Sprockets
Staats Bicycles
Retired
GT Bicycles
Infobox last updated on:
June 8, 2008

Jill Kintner (b. October 24, 1981 from Burien, Washington[1] USA) is a professional American "Mid School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) and Professional Mountaincross racer whose prime competitive years were from 1995-2002 in BMX; 2004 to Present in Mountaincross. She switched to the Mountaincross discipline full time after her BMX retirement after the 2003 season (many sources has her retiring after the 2002 season but this is incorrect[2][3]). Jill Kintner is at the forefront of a relatively small world wide 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 State. She began competing professionally at age 14[4] and ended up capturing more than 70 BMX wins.[5] Concentrating on Mountaincross racing for three years she came out of BMX retirement beginning in early 2007 to supplement her Mountain cross training.[6] 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 comeback. At first reluctant she did comeback and won her first BMX race the first time back.[7] Then she made the switch to racing BMX full time to try to make the 2008 USA BMX Olympic team. On June 2, 2008, she was accepted on the team after coming in sixth place in the round of 32 racers making the top 16.[8] Ironically, she at first had a lukewarm response to the news of it becoming a Olympic sport but had a change of heart:

"I was really over it and burned out," she said. "At first, I didn't really care at all" about the Olympics." She added, "I did not want to do it for the longest time."[9]

Kintner is currently living in San Diego, California so she can train at the Olympic Training Center.[10]

Contents

[edit] Racing career

Note: Professional first are on the national level unless otherwise indicated.

Started Racing: In 1989 at 8 years old.

Sanctioning Body: [[]] ()

First race result:

First win (local):

First sponsor:

First national win:

Turned Professional: In 1995 at 14 years old.[11]

First Professional race result:

First Professional win:

First Junior Women Pro* race result:

First Junior Women Pro win:

First Senior Women Pro** race result:

First Senior Women Pro win:

Retired: After the 2003 season at 22 years old to pursue a career in Mountaincross racing full time because she was burned out on BMX competition,[12] was "bored" and had reached her "potential"[13] . 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.[14] Inddeed, she raced well into 2004 as she concentrated on Mountaincross like her competing in the ABA Silverdollar Nationals on January 8, 2005 coming in 8th place.[15] She had previously raced MTB Crosscountry part time since 1997.

Height & weight at height of her career (2008): Ht:5'7" Wt:135lbs.[16]


*In the NBL Junior Women; No comparible level exist in the ABA.
**In the NBL it was/is Supergirls/Elite Women; in the ABA it is Pro Girls.

[edit] 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 sponsor's advertisements at the time in question. When possible exact dates are used.

[edit] Amateur

[edit] Professional

  • Clayborne: 1999
  • 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): 2004
  • Retired from full time BMX competition for three years. (2004-2007)
  • GT Bicycles: January 1, 2006[17]-Present. Kintner was sponsored by GT as a mountain Bike racer since 2006. She returned to BMX on a part time basis sponsored by GT in early 2007. She returned full time at the beginning of 2008.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Amateur

National Bicycle Association (NBA)

  • None (defunct)

National Bicycle League (NBL)

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

  • 1991 Washington-1 (WA-01) Girls District No.1
  • 1995 14-16 Girls Criuser Grandnational Champion
  • 1996 Girls Cruiser Washington-1 (WA-01) District No.1.
  • 2002 Girls Pro Race of Champions Champion

United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)

  • None (defunct)

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

  • None (defunct)

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*

  • 1997 16 Girls World Champion

*See note in professional section

[edit] Professional

National Bicycle Association (NBA)

  • None (defunct)

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

United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)

  • None (defunct)

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

  • None (FIAC did not have a strictly professional division during its existence) (defunct).

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*

USA Cycling:

  • 2008 Elite Women National Champion

*Note: Beginning in 1991 the IBMXF and FIAC had been holding joint World Championship events as a transitional phase in merging which began in earnest in 1993. Beginning with the 1996 season the IBMXF and FIAC completed the merger and both ceased to exist as independent entities being integrated into the UCI. Beginning with the 1997 World Championships held in Brighton, England the UCI would officially hold and sanction BMX World Championships and with it inherited all precedents, records, streaks, etc. from both the IBMXF and FIAC.
Pro Series Championships

[edit] Notable accolades

[edit] BMX Product Lines

[edit] Significant injuries

  • Ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in a December 2007 crash.[18]
  • She reinjured the chronically problematic knee during a training crash in late April 2008.[19] She underwent surgery on her right knee on May 4, 2008 to repair her meniscus.[20][21] She is wearing a leg brace and has put off major surgery until after the 2008 Summer Olympics.[22]

[edit] Peccadilloes

  • 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.[23] In a interview with fellow BMX Pro Dale Holmes on his website she gave a response to her alleged aggressiveness:
Dale Holmes: "You don't seem to hang out to much with the other girls you race with, how come?"
Jill Kintner: "Im not really into all the drama that goes along with hanging out. In BMX, girls take everything really personal, so when you hit them in a turn they automatically hate you. Im not one to back down, so if they want to hate me, it doesn't really matter. Im not there to stir anything up, I am just really competitive."[24]

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 5 & under up to 1o or 11 boys, and not so uncommon to beat the boys in the 12 to 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 was too great. Jill Kintner is one female that demonstrates that it is possible as she did in a 2003 Robbie Miranda 59 Tropical BMX Challenge (RM59) race held in Barcelonta, Puerto Rico in which 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. She over came 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 by the finish line wining the event.[25]

[edit] Post BMX career

[edit] Mountain Bike Career Record

Mountain Bike Racing
Personal information
Country Flag of the United States United States
Height 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 61.24 kg (135.0 lb)
Team information
Current team GT Bicycles
Discipline Mountaincross (4x)
Role Racer
Rider type Off Road
Professional team(s)
2002-2003
2003-2005
2006-Present		 Staats Bicycles
Yeti Cycles
GT Bicycles
Infobox last updated on:
June 6, 2008

Started racing: Partime in 1997 along side her BMX career. Full time in 2003 at 21

Sub Discipline: 4X Moutaincross

First race result:

Sanctioning body:

Retired: Beginning 2008 she is on hiatus from Moutain Bike Racing as she resumed her BMX career full time to persue a Gold Medal in BMX at the Beijing, China 2008 Summer Olympic games.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Amateur

No amateur status.

[edit] Professional

  • 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.[26]
  • Yeti Cycles: December 12, 2003[26]-December 2005
  • GT (Gary Turner) Bicycles: January 1, 2006-Present.

[edit] Career Mountain Bike Racing (MTB) titles

Note: Listed are Regional, National and International titles.

[edit] Amateur

  • No amateur status.

[edit] Professional

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)

  • 2005, 2006, 2007 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 Womens Mountain Cross Championships Champion

USA Cycling

Independent Championship races and series

  • 2005, 2006 Jeep King of the Mountain Women's Champion

[edit] Notable MTB accolades

[edit] MTB Product Lines

[edit] Significant MTB injuries

[edit] Miscellaneous and Trivia

[edit] BMX magazine covers

Note: (defunct) denotes that the magazine was out of business before the career of the racer started.

Bicycle Motocross News:

  • None (defunct)

Minicycle/BMX Action & Super BMX:

  • None (Defunct)

Bicycle Motocross Action & Go:

  • None (defunct)

BMX Plus!:

Total BMX

  • None (defunct)

Bicycles and Dirt:

  • None (defunct)

Ride BMX Magazine:

Snap BMX Magazine & Transworld BMX:

BMX World

NBA World & NBmxA World (the official membership publication of the NBA):

Bicycles Today & BMX Today (the official membership publication of the NBL under two names):

ABA Action, American BMXer, BMXer (the official membership publication of the ABA under three different names):

[edit] BMX press magazine interviews and articles

[edit] Miscellaneous and Trivia

[edit] End Notes

  1. ^ Seattletimes.com May 25, 2008 article
  2. ^ Kidssportnet.com ABA and NBL 2003 national standings.
  3. ^ bmxonline.com points standings listings. Search for "Kintner" (without quotation marks)
  4. ^ Jill Kintner's Profile.
  5. ^ bikemag.com article.
  6. ^ May 11, 2007 Velonews.com article.
  7. ^ nbcolympics.com Kintner biography
  8. ^ Outside-blog.away.com Olympic BMX team article
  9. ^ Seattle Times May 25, 2008 article
  10. ^ Redbullusa.com article.
  11. ^ Jill Kinter Profile page.
  12. ^ Seattletimes.com May 25, 2008 article
  13. ^ 2002 DaleHolmes.com interview at his website.
  14. ^ Moto Mag January/February 2004 Vol.3 No.1 pg.28
  15. ^ fatbmx.com Race report
  16. ^ nbcolympic.com Kintner biography.
  17. ^ announcement of GT signing Kintner in 2006
  18. ^ Seattletimes.com May 25, 2008 article
  19. ^ Hosted-Stats May 31, 2008 Associated Press article post.
  20. ^ nbcolympics.com May 5, 2008 news article
  21. ^ Stanton-Company.com article
  22. ^ May 27, 2008 New York Times article.
  23. ^ Moto Mag January/February 2003 Vol.2 No.1 pg.29
  24. ^ 2003 DaleHolmes.com interview at his website.
  25. ^ Moto Mag January/February 2004 Vol.3 No.1 pg.29
  26. ^ a b transcendmagazine.com announcement of December 12, 2003 signing.

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