Hunter Kemper
Hunter Craig Kemper (born May 4, 1976 in Charlotte, North Carolina) is a triathlete from the United States. He won the silver medal at the 1999 Pan American Games, behind Venezuela's Gilberto González, followed by the gold four years later in Santo Domingo.
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He attended Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he was a 4-year member of the Men's Cross Country and Track & Field teams. Hunter graduated in 1998 with a degree in Business Administration.
Kemper competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took seventeenth place with a total time of 1:50:05.56.
Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Kemper competed again. He moved up to ninth place with a time of 1:52:46.33 on the more rigorous course.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he finished in seventh place with a time of 1:49:48.75.
At the ITU San Diego Triathlon in 2012, he placed 5th with a time of 1:49:18 qualifying him for the London 2012 USA Olympic team. He placed fourteenth in those games to lead the U.S. triathlon team.[1]
Kemper is one of only two American male triathletes to ever be ranked world #1 by the International Triathlon Union (ITU) (American Mark Fretta also held the world #1 rank for 4 months in 2006). In July 2006, he won the Life Time Fitness Triathlon in Minneapolis, MN, winning what was at the time the largest purse in professional triathlon competition.
References
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-31.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)