Caitlyn Jenner

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Caitlyn Jenner in 2015

Caitlyn Marie Jenner (* 28. October 1949 in Mount Kisco , New York as William Bruce Jenner ) is an American sports and TV personality. At the Olympic Games in 1976 , when she was still a man, she won the gold medal in the decathlon and held the decathlon world record. Since 2007 she has been part of the reality TV series Keeping Up with the Kardashians .

In 2015, Jenner announced that she was a trans woman. Since June of the same year she has been using the female first name Caitlyn. She has since been the main character in the reality TV series I Am Cait .

Life

Athletic career

After Jenner had reached 10th place in the decathlon for men at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich with 7722 points in the decathlon , although she was 23rd after the first day, she improved steadily in the years that followed. In 1974 it exceeded the 8,000 point mark several times. With 8245 points she won the AAU championship . With 8308 points she won the all-around international competition against the Soviet Union and Germany. The 8308 points also secured her first place in the world's best list of the year.

On August 9 and 10, 1975 Jenner set up her first world record in Eugene in the international match against the Soviet Union and Poland with 8524 points. It exceeded the previously valid mark of Mykola Awilow by 70 points. Since electronic timekeeping had failed in Eugene, the actual improvement in the world record was only slight. At the end of the season she won the title at the Pan American Games in Mexico City with 8045 points .

Jenner (right) greets Liberian President William Tolbert (left), in the presence of US President Gerald Ford (center), at the White House on September 21, 1976.

At the AAU championship in 1976, which also served as Olympic qualification, Jenner improved her world record in Eugene on June 25th and 26th by 14 points, with some hand-timed times also being included in the rating for this performance. In the long jump, her second best distance was recorded in the world record record because she had too much tailwind on her best attempt. Her victory in the AAU championship was four points above the world record.

Jenner traveled to the Montreal Olympics as the clear favorite after setting two world records. After the first day, July 29th, she was 35 points behind Guido Kratschmer and defending champion Mykola Awilow in 3rd place. Only after the eighth discipline, the pole vault , did she take the lead. As a strong javelin thrower and 1,500 meter runner , she was able to significantly increase her lead in the last two disciplines. Jenner won with 8618 points ahead of Kratschmer (8411) and Awilow (8369). After the decathlon rating, which has been in effect since 1985, her third and last world record is rated with 8634 points.

In 1976 she was honored with the Associated Press Athlete of the Year award . In 1986 she was inducted into the US Olympic Hall of Fame .

Extra sports career

With her sporting successes, Jenner also achieved financial success: She got advertising contracts with Visa , MCI and Coca-Cola, among others .

After winning the gold medal, Jenner ended her sports career and began a career as a film actor. Well-known films are u. a. Supersound and brisk Sprüche (1979, OT: Can't Stop the Music with Village People ) and Grambling's White Tiger (1981) .

Private life

Jenner's first marriage to Chrystie Crownover was from 1972 to 1981. From this marriage come son Burt and daughter Casey.

The same week Jenner and Chrystie Crownover were divorced, Jenner married actress Linda Thompson . The sons Brandon and Brody come from this marriage.

Jenner began the process of gender reassignment in the 1980s , but then met Kris Kardashian (nee Houghton), whom she married in 1991 for the third time. With her, Jenner has daughters Kendall and Kylie as biological children , Kris brought daughters Kourtney , Kim and Khloé as well as her son Rob from her first marriage to the late lawyer Robert Kardashian . The marriage was divorced in December 2014 due to irreconcilable differences. Jenner appeared with Kris and their children in the family reality soap Keeping Up with the Kardashians . Her son Brody Jenner had a role on the MTV series The Hills .

On February 7, 2015, Jenner was involved in a traffic accident in Malibu , California , in which a woman was killed and seven other people were injured.

On April 24, 2015, she announced that she was a trans woman. In June 2015, 65-year-old Jenner was featured on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine as a woman, photographed by star photographer Annie Leibovitz . She announced her new first name Caitlyn at the same time . The response to the article was great and the White House under Barack Obama congratulated it. On September 25, a court granted her request to change her name and gender. The eight-part television series I Am Cait , which has been broadcast since summer 2015, documents her gender reassignment. She was the second most searched person on Google in 2015.

Political positions

She is a Republican and was a supporter of Donald Trump .

Works

  • Challenge: Bruce Jenner's story. 1977
  • Bruce Jenner's Viewers Guide to The Olympics. 1980

Filmography

Motorsport statistics

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1980 United StatesUnited States Jim Busby Industries March-BMW M1 United StatesUnited States Jim Busby United StatesUnited States Rick knoop failure Gearbox damage
1986 United StatesUnited States 7-Eleven Roush Racing Ford Mustang United StatesUnited States Scott Pruett 4th place and class win
1987 United StatesUnited States Roush Racing Ford Mustang United StatesUnited States Bobby Akin Rank 8

literature

  • Manfred Holzhausen: world records and world record holder. Decathlon. Grevenbroich 2004

Web links

Commons : Caitlyn Jenner  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Caitlyn Jenner reveals she had her boobs removed .
  2. ↑ Erin Clements: Caitlyn Jenner opens up about transitioning in the 1980s before marriage to Kris .
  3. ↑ Was Bruce Jenner texting in the accident? Report in 20 minutes from February 8, 2015 (accessed February 10, 2015).
  4. ^ Daniel E. Slotnik: Bruce Jenner Says He's Transitioning to a Woman. In: The New York Times. April 24, 2015, accessed on April 25, 2015 (also appeared in the print edition of April 25, 2015 on page B6 of the New York edition under the title “In Interview, Jenner Says He Identifies as a Woman”).
  5. ↑ Dawin Ennis: Bruce Jenner: 'I'm A Woman'. In: Advocate.com. April 24, 2015, accessed on April 25, 2015 (With the historical development of public comments and rumors).
  6. ^ Joanna Robinson: Annie Leibovitz Speaks for the First Time About Her Historic Caitlyn Jenner Cover .
  7. ↑ Introducing Caitlyn Jenner , at vanityfair.com, accessed June 1, 2015
  8. ↑ New identity for US star Jenner: The White House congratulates . 2nd June 2015.
  9. ↑ Jana Kasperkevič: Judge approves Caitlyn Jenner's formal request for name change. In: The Guardian. September 26, 2015, accessed September 27, 2015 .
  10. ↑ n-tv news television: Caitlyn Jenner escapes punishment .
  11. ↑ Felix Stephan : Caitlyn Jenner: Triumph of nudism . 3rd June 2015.
  12. ↑ Here Are the 10 Most Popular People of the Year According to Google. In: Cosmopolitan. December 16, 2015, accessed March 5, 2016 .
  13. ↑ mirror
personal data
SURNAME Jenner, Caitlyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jenner, William Bruce (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American athlete, writer, actress, and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Mount Kisco , New York