Kim Hayashi

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Kim Hayashi
Personal information
Full name Kimberly M. Hayashi
Nickname "Lil Kim", "Shorty", "Midget"
"Kim Woo", "Lil Sushi"
"Krashin' Kim" "Tenacious K"
Date of birth January 27, 1986 (1986-01-27) (age 22)
Country Flag of the United States United States
Height 1.473m (4'10" Imperial)
Weight 58.1kg (128lbs. Imperial) (2004)
Team information
Current team Redline Bicycles
Discipline Bicycle Motocross (BMX)
Role Racer
Rider type Off Road
Amateur team(s)
1998-2000

2000-2001		 Gordy's Bike Shop
Enigima Factory Team
Redline Bicycles
Professional team(s)
2001-Present
 Redline Bicycles
Infobox last updated on:
March 21, 2008

Kimberly M. Hayashi (b. January 27, 1986 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States) is an American professional "New/Current School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years are from 2000-Present. Her many nicknames include: "Lil Kim", "Shorty", "Midget", "Kim Woo", Lil Sushi, et al.[1] all references to her diminutive 4' 10", 128lbs.[2] stature. She is also known as "Krashin' Kim"[3] for her penchant to crash in races. Indeed, she would crash in her first lap in her very first professional race in 2002 colliding with another rider.[4]. Despite this she would become the National Bicycle League (NBL)'s five consecutive number one professional women's racer from 2002 to 2007, which caused her to pick up yet another descriptive nickname: "Tenacious K".[5]

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[edit] Racing career

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

Started Racing: 1998 at age 12 in Chandler, Arizona at the Chandler BMX track. Her brother introduced her to the sport.[6]

Sanctioning Body: American Bicycle Association (ABA)

First race result:

First race bike: Gary Fisher[7]

First win (local):

First sponsor: 1999 Gordy's Bike Shop.

First national win:

Turned Professional: November 2001 at age 15 immediately after the American Bicycle Association (ABA) Grand Nationals. Redline teammate Bubba Harris also turns pro on this occasion.[8]

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: Still active. She had plans to retire after paticipating in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics[9] but her Olympic bid was quashed when she failed to make it out of the qualifying rounds at the UCI World Championships in Taiyuan, China. Jill Kintner qualified as the United States sole female BMX Olympic participant.[10]

Height & weight at height of her career (2002-Present): Ht: 4'10". Wt:128lbs.

[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

  • Gordy's Bike Shop: 1999
  • Gordy's 2000
  • Enigma Factory Team:
  • Redline Bicycles: October 2000-Present. Kim Hayashi would turn professional with this sponsor.

[edit] Professional

  • Redline Bicycles: October 2000-Present

[edit] Career bicycle motocross titles

Note: Listed are District, State/Provincial/Department, Regional, National, and International titles in italics. "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. Depending on point totals of individual racers, winners of Grand Nationals do not necessarily win National titles. Series and one off Championships are also listed in block.

[edit] Amateur

National Bicycle Association (NBA)

  • None (defunct)

National Bicycle League (NBL)

  • 1999, 2000 Arizona State Girls Champion.

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

  • 2001 15 Girls World Cup Champion
  • 2001 15 Girls Race of Champions (RoC) Champion.
  • 2001 14-16 Cruiser Grandnational Champion
  • 2000 & 2001 National Amateur Girl's Cruiser No.1

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

  • None (defunct)

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

  • None (defunct)

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*

  • 2002 18 & Under Women Cruiser Challenge World Champion**

*See note in professional section
**Even though she was a professional racer in the ABA by the time the 2002 UCI World Championships were held on July 27th-29th, she was still only 16 years old at that time and per UCI rules had to race in the youth and/or amateur division of the cruiser classes as part of the Challenge Championships the championship races that were held the day before the Adult and/or Professional classes in the UCI World Championships.

[edit] Professional

National Bicycle Association (NBA)

  • None (defunct)

National Bicycle League (NBL)

  • 2003 Girls Pro Grandnational Champion
  • 2004 Elite Women and 14 & Over Girls Open Grandnational Champion (Doubled)
  • 2003, '04, '05, '06, '07 Elite Women National No.1

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

  • 2006 Pro Girls Grandnational Champion

United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)

  • None (defunct)

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

  • None (defunct)

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

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

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*

  • 2004 Junior Women's Pro World 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] Significant injuries

  • Broke her arm in early 2008.[11]

[edit] Peccadilloes

Tended to crash under high pressure situations in particular during the first main (out of three scored to decided the winner and runner ups of the day), earning the moniker "Krashin' Kim". She had a four year annual first main crash streak during the ABA Grand Nationals until the 2006 edition in which she not only didn't crash in the first main, but was the Grand National winner. She achieved this it is said because she was all but mathematically out of contention for the No.1 Pro Girl title (she didn't win the title despite winning the event), hence, no real pressure.[12]

[edit] Post BMX career

Still active as of June 2008 but she had plans on retiring after the 2008 Beijing Olympics if she makes the US Olympic team. She plans to focus on Dental School and become a orthodontist from then on.[13] However her Olympic bid ended when she failed to make it out of the qualifying rounds at the UCI World Championships in Taiyuan, China. Jill Kintner qualifed as the United States sole female BMX Olympic participant.[14]

[edit] Miscellaneous and Trivia

  • She good naturely jokes about her diminutive stature. According to Hayashi she could qualify as a midget due to her 4' 10" height:
Redline interviewer: You ride a stock Flight Expert frame-which the specs are listed in the back of theis catalog. What are YOUR specs?
Kim: I'm 128 and 4 foot 10. Not quite the 5 foot mark. I could be classified as a legal mdget. I could get one of those handicap plates and get good parking spaces, but i won't (laughter).[15]

[edit] BMX press magazine interviews and articles

  • "Factory Redline Pros" Transworld BMX November 2004 Vol.11 Iss.11 No.97. It is page 17 of the imbedded Redline catalog included in the magazine along with interviews of teamates Bubba Harris and Jason Carne$.

[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)

Snap BMX Magazine & Transworld BMX:

Moto Mag:

  • July/August 2003 Vol.2 No.3 (5) ahead of three unidentifieds. At bottom stylized photo of racer Dale Holmes.

BMX World:

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

ABA Action, American BMXer, BMXer (The ABA official membership publication under three names):

[edit] End Notes

  1. ^ BMXstars.com Profile.
  2. ^ Transworld BMX November 2004 Vol.11 Iss.11 No.97. It is page 17 of the imbedded Redline catalog inside the magazine
  3. ^ BMXonline.com article plus video.
  4. ^ Martjin Scherpen Interview
  5. ^ Google *.html rendition of www.istv.com *.pdf document file.
  6. ^ BMXstars.com Profile.
  7. ^ sarahwalker96.com 2006 interview.
  8. ^ Redline website history section.
  9. ^ sarahwalker96.com 2006 interview.
  10. ^ June 2, 2008 azcentral.com article
  11. ^ June 2, 2008 azcentral.com article
  12. ^ Redline Bicycles.com site. Word search for "Girl Pro"
  13. ^ 2008 inteview with Kim Hayashi.
  14. ^ June 2, 2008 azcentral.com article
  15. ^ Transworld BMX November 2004 Vol.11 Iss.11 No.97. It is page 17 of the imbedded Redline catalog included in the magazine.

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