Hunter Kemper

0 Hunter Kemper
Hunter Kemper at the Hyvee Triathlon, 2014
Personal information
Date of birth	4th May 1976 (age 44)
place of birth	Charlotte, North Carolina , USA
societies
successes
1998-2011	7 × national champion triathlon short distance
2000	17th place at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2004	9th place at the 2004 Summer Olympics
2005	Winner ITU Triathlon World Cup
2008	7th place at the 2008 Summer Olympics
2012	14th place Olympic Summer Games 2012
status
inactive

Hunter Craig Kemper (born May 4, 1976 in Charlotte , North Carolina ) is an American triathlete and four-time starter at the Summer Olympics (2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012).

Career

Hunter Kemper has started as a triathlon professional since 1998. In 2000, he started at the Olympic Games in Sydney at the age of 24.

Between 1998 and 2011 he won the title of national champion on the short distance triathlon seven times.

Winner Triathlon World Cup 2005

In 2005 he became the first US American to win the ITU Triathlon World Cup. He was the first ever triathlete to be named Athlete of the Year by the United States National Olympic Committee in 2005 ( USOC Athlete of the Year ).

As the only triathlete so far besides the German Anja Dittmer and the Canadian Simon Whitfield , he has competed four times at the Olympic Games (2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012). He achieved his best ranking in 2008 as the best American with seventh place. He was also aiming for a qualification for 2016, which he did not achieve. He has not appeared internationally since 2016.

Hunter Kemper lives in Longwood, Florida with his wife Valerie Kemper and their four children .

Awards

• USOC Athlete of the Year 2005

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Hunter Kemper at the Olympic Games (2012)

Web links

• Official homepage of Hunter Kemper
• Hunter Kemper in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Profile for Hunter Kemper at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed June 21, 2014
• Hunter Kemper's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on August 1, 2018 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No triathlon for old men: Hunter Kemper, 4-time Olympian, ponders his place (August 7, 2012)
2. ↑ Battle of the sexes: Alexander achieves first men's victory . In: tri2b.com . July 18, 2005.
3. ↑ 2000 Sydney Results: Triathlon  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the LA84 Foundation (PDF; 2.53 MB)