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| Full name | Jill Kintner | ||||||||||||
| Born | October 24, 1981 Burien, Washington, United States |
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| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 135 lb (61 kg)[1] | ||||||||||||
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| Current team | Transition Racing | ||||||||||||
| Discipline | Bicycle motocross (BMX) Mountain bike racing (MTB) |
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| Role | Racer | ||||||||||||
| Rider type | BMX: Off road MTB: Downhill, four-cross |
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| 1999 2000 2000-2001 2002 2002 2002-2003 2003-2005 2006-2008 2010-Present |
Clayborne Team Burien CC Racing Sharp Sprockets Intense/Troy Lee Designs Staats Bicycles Yeti Cycles GT Bicycles Transition Bike Co. |
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Jill Kintner (born October 24, 1981, from Burien, Washington,[2] 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[3][4]).
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Kintner is from Burien, Washington. She began riding BMX in July 1989 at seven years of age[5] 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).[6] 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.
She began riding BMX while growing up, as her father owned his own BMX track in Washington. She began competing professionally at age 14 and captured more than 70 BMX wins.[7] In April 2004 she made the switch to full time Mountain Bike racing competition. In 2006, Mike King, a former BMX and mountain bike racer then director of BMX for USA Cycling, urged her to come back, and in 2007 returned to BMX racing, with the added prospect of possibly participating in the 2008 Summer Olympics[8]
Jill came out of BMX retirement in early 2007 ostensibly to supplement her mountain cross training.[9] She won her first BMX race the first time back,[10] despite an injured knee, she went forward.[11] 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 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.[12] Kintner resided in San Diego, California, so that she could train at the Olympic Training Center,[13] and won the bronze medal on August 19, 2008, in BMX racing.<refhttp://www.seattlepi.com/olympics/376090_olybmx22.html</ref> Kintner has stated that it is an almost certainty that she will not return for the 2012 Olympics.[2]
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,[14] was "bored" and had reached her "potential".[15] 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.[16] 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.[17] 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 eighth place.[18] She had previously raced MTB cross country parttime since 1997.
Note: Listed are District, State/Provincial/Department, Regional, National and International titles. 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, an 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. Only sanctioning bodies that existed during the racer's career are listed.
American Bicycle Association (ABA)
Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)
National Bicycle League (NBL)
American Bicycle Association (ABA)
Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*
Games of the XXIX Olympiad (2008 Summer Olympics)
Independent Pro Series Championships and Invitational Races
An aggressive rider in the Girl Pro class, 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.[19]
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.
Started racing: Part-time in 1997 alongside her BMX career. Full-time in 2003 at 21
Sub Discipline: 4X Mountain cross
Note: Listed are Regional, National and International titles.
Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)
National Off Road Bicycle Association (NORBA)
Independent Championship races and series
Kintner Ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in a December 2007 crash.[2] She reinjured the chronically problematic knee during a training crash in late April 2008.[20] She underwent surgery on her right knee on May 4, 2008, to repair her meniscus.[21][22] She wore a leg brace and had put off major surgery until after the 2008 Summer Olympics,[23] eventually having that surgery on October 2, 2008.[24]