Athletes

After capturing the 2008 USA Cycling BMX National Championship title, Jill Kintner went on to win the bronze medal in BMX racing in the sport’s Olympic debut this summer in Beijing. Kintner started racing BMX locally in Seattle at age 8, and by 16 was competing professionally all around the world. As a BMX racer, Kintner has an estimated 70-plus career wins, including, in 2002, the National Bicycle League Women’s pro title and American Bicycle Association World Championship. After accomplishing most of her goals with BMX racing, owning nearly every major title, Kintner decided to change course in 2002 and switched to the larger wheeled sport of mountain bike racing, mainly competing in the gravity event of "mountaincross" aka "4x"in which she is the three-time U.S. national champion, two-time Union Cyclist Internationale World Cup overall champion, and the three-time UCI World Champion in 2005, 2006 and 2007. (9/08)