Bruce jenner biography olympics swimming

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American decathlete

Bruce Jenner won a gold medal in say publicly decathlon in the 1976 Athletics Games. He also set on the rocks new world record for greatness decathlon, with 8,176 points. Aft the Olympics, he used excellence fame he had won turn over to develop a new career thanks to an entrepreneur, product spokesperson, bracket motivational speaker.

Jenner was born topmost grew up in Mt.

Kisco, New York, the second near four children of William Medico, a tree surgeon, and Estelle Jenner. William Jenner had competed in the U.S. Army Olympiad in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1945, and won a silver medallion in the 100-yard dash. Pile addition, Jenner's grandfather had hit in several Boston Marathons. Medico inherited their athletic ability significant high energy level.

Despite government athletic talent, Jenner soon grew to hate school because without fear had a reading disability stroll caused him to fail in a tick grade (a big embarrassment). Fiasco would do anything to train out of reading in head start of the class, and intent his energy on sports instead.

When he was in fifth educate, Jenner's teacher had all picture students run, timing them revere see who was the outrun.

Jenner was the fastest messenger in the school. This happiness encouraged his interest in exercises. According to Mike Downey pimple the Los Angeles Times, "On a field of play operate would challenge anyone he knew to be a good schoolgirl, just so he could drub that kid and then disclose, 'Read that.'" Jenner told Downey that because nothing came readily to him, he had go up against work harder, and that on condition that everything had been easy unmixed him, "I never would accept realized the way you level ahead in life is laborious work." Thus, he credited monarch learning disability for giving him his intense drive to pierce and succeed.

Jenner's family moved tell off Newtown, Connecticut before he began high school.

While in big school, he was a tallness vault and high jump titleist. He also won the Habituate States water-skiing competition three period and was a member regard his school's football and hoops teams.

Jenner wanted to go purify college, mainly because the Warfare War was raging, and academy students were exempt

from the combatant draft.

He also wanted shut play football. He won great football scholarship for $250 a- year to Graceland College happening Lamoni, Iowa, but during consummate freshman year he was sidelined by an injury. Bored, operate turned to the decathlon. Put down his first meet, in 1970, he not only won however set a school record, research 6,991 points. From that stop on, he decided to allocate all his energy to leadership decathlon.

The decathlon involves ten manipulation, jumping, and throwing events, engaged over two days: on greatness first day, the events embrace the 100-meter run, long hurdle, shot put, high jump, dispatch 400-meter run.

On the subordinate day, they include the 110-meter hurdles, discus, pole vault, puncture, and 1500-meter run. The actions are scored and athletes debris points for each performance; blue blood the gentry athlete with the highest accurate score after all the fairytale are completed is the protector. Of the events, the extremity challenging is the 1,500 prosody run; British gold-medalwinning decathlete Daley Thompson once described the decathlon as "nine Mickey Mouse exploits and the 1,500," according do Downey.

When Jenner went to rectitude trials for the 1972 Olympiad he was not expected appeal do well enough to set up the team.

Only the match up top athletes would be permissible on the team, and because of the end of the pull it off day of the trials, Physician was in 11th place. Saving the second day, with unite events left, he was control tenth place, and still frank not look like a fair to middling prospect for the team. Yet, he moved up to 7th place after the pole leap, and to fifth place later his javelin throw.

If bankruptcy could beat the athlete who was currently in third bloomer by 18 seconds in position 1500 meters, he would constitute the team. Jenner beat top competitor by 21 seconds. Balanced the 1972 Olympic Games unexciting Munich, Germany, Jenner finished extract tenth place. His finish was disappointing to him, and pacify vowed to train harder topmost do better.

In December of 1972, Jenner married Chrystie Crownover, trim minister's daughter whom he esoteric met in college.

For nobility next four years, he practised while she supported the team a few by working as a journey attendant. Jenner also sold circumspection part-time. In 1974 and 1976, Jenner won the Amateur Able-bodied Union decathlon. In 1975, flair won the Pan-American Games decathlon. These wins made him dexterous sure member of the U.S.

Olympic team for 1976.

In donkey-work for the Olympics, Jenner abandoned eight hours a day. Recognized was so intense about top training that he put a-one hurdle in his living period, and jumped over it excellent than 25 times each offering. He told Downey, "It was not a well-rounded life. On the other hand it was [going to be] my last decathlon.

I knew that I would have 60 or 70 years to recover."

At the 1976 Olympic Games hinder Montreal, Jenner was expected decide win. He planned to survive within 200 points of authority leader's score by the consign of the first day. Delight in fact, he ended the time off with 4,298 points, only 35 points behind the leader. Explode by the eighth event nightmare the second day, he was so far ahead that with reference to was no way anyone added could catch up with him.

He did so well sieve the first nine events wander he only needed to clasp third in the 1,500 make out order to win a funds medal for the entire not pass. He came in first, delectable gold and setting a pristine world record for the decathlon, with 8,176 points. Jenner designed to retire after the 1976 Olympics, and he even unattended to his vaulting poles behind squeeze up the Olympic stadium because recognized had already decided he would never compete again.

Chronology

1949	Born in Mt. Kisco, NY
1970	Enters first decathlon, and wins
1972	Competes in Metropolis Olympics; comes in tenth
1972	Marries Chrystie Crownover
1974	Wins Uneducated Athletic Union decathlon
1975	Wins Pan-American Games decathlon
1976	Wins Dilettante Athletic Union decathlon
1976	Wins gold medal dense Montreal Olympic decathlon
1980	Jenner and Crownover divorce
1981	Jenner marries Linda Thompson
1986	Jenner and Thompson divorce
1991	Marries Kris Kardashian

Jenner was named Associated Press Messenger offshoot of the Year for 1976, and also received the Host Award for best amateur runner in the United States assimilate 1976.

He was inducted meet the National Track and Sphere Hall of Fame in 1980 and into the Olympic Appearance of Fame in 1986.

After charming the decathlon, Jenner wanted emphasize buy a house, but esoteric no assets. At the in advance, he was making $9,000 adroit year by selling insurance. Elegance put up his Olympic money medal as collateral.

He got the loan; perhaps the public servant foresaw that Jenner would orbit his performance into more amber, through personal appearances and endorsements, than any athlete had devious made before.

Jenner's success in loftiness decathlon received intense publicity with the addition of was a source of mass pride for Americans.

It was the year of the Bicentenary, an occasion of patriotic show ad circumstance; and Jenner, block off American, had beaten a State athlete during a period gradient great tension between the Land Union and the United States. In addition, he had movie-star good looks and a undisturbed deal of personal charm. Medico told Jason Swancey in integrity Sarasota Herald Tribune, "I event to be the right taunt in the right place associate with the right time."

Jenner's face nowadays appeared on the Wheaties busybody as an example of hearty prowess and health, and proceed has made his living at all since by riding on king success as an Olympic runner, promoting various products.

He was one of the first athletes to do this, and said Swancey, "Sports marketing has turn very big and I would like to think I was one of the guys who kind of got that started." Jenner also told Brian Cazeneuve in Time, "Nobody's worked singular performance better than I enjoy. I was in that ground 48 hours and now cheer up can't get rid of me."

Jenner's schedule soon became so grueling that he learned to take to the air in order to get total all his appearances on put on ice.

He bought a 1978 Beechcraft Bonanza airplane, learned to soar, and got his ratings although a pilot. But his fierce schedule hurt his family make an inventory. Jenner and Crownover divorced hoard 1980. In 1981, Jenner wed Linda Thompson, an actor, on the other hand they divorced in 1986. Archaeologist told a reporter for People that the reason was Jenner's frequent absences from home at long last he pursued his career though a product spokesperson, actor, status television commentator.

Jenner also rode enthrone reputation into television and peel roles.

Although he appeared prosperous a movie, Can't Stop representation Music, the film was well-organized flop. Jenner jokingly told Pull something Weiner in the MinneapolisStar Tribune, "What 'Can't Stop the Music' proved is that you glare at stop the music." According feign Downey, Michael Sauter, author friendly the book The Worst Pictures of All Time, wrote avoid the film has scenes turn this way "you find yourself wanting take back see a second time, as you can't quite believe what you think you just saw." Jenner also appeared in a-one forgettable episode of the push drama "CHiPs." He was hotelkeeper of a celebrity sports information, "Star Games," and occasionally delegated for anchor David Hartman judgment the television program "Good Dayspring America."

Jenner told a reporter lay out People that the late Decennium were a difficult period aim him.

"I was drifting. Farcical had worked really hard add-on didn't have much to put it on for it." He also sonorous a reporter on the Permanence Network Web site that forever being in the public proficient was making him nervous. "I found myself thrown into top-hole glass fish-bowl as a idol and an American hero. What I was hiding was zigzag I had the same mentality as the nervous schoolboy beating from my teacher." He likewise said that his public self-possessed as a celebrity did whimper match the reality of empress private life: "In 1990 prickly would have found me extant in a one-bedroom Los Angeles bungalow, my sink piled lofty with dirty dishes and vindicate living room decorated with well-organized dried-out Christmas tree." He voiced articulate that at his public pro formas, he always wore his superlative suit: "an out-of-style 1976 tuxedo."

Related Biography: Decathlete Daley Thompson

Daley Archeologist is one of the utter decathletes in history.

Born Francis Ayodele Thompson in London, England in 1958, Thompson was concerned in sports and highly ambitious from early childhood. He entered his first meet at rank age of 14, in 1973, and by 1976, was great enough to make the Athletics team. He came in 18th, but gold medal decathlete King Jenner predicted that Thompson would one day win gold trim the event.

Jenner was right.

Physicist won the gold medal contest the 1980 Olympics, held fluky Moscow, and was prevented give birth to setting a new world slant only by foul weather. Sand did set an Olympic make a notation of, with a point total robust 8,798, which was not precarious until 1996. Thompson won in the opposite direction gold medal at the 1984 Olympics, but his dream all but winning three Olympic gold medals was crushed when he insolvent his pole during the standard vault, injuring his adductor muscle.

After retiring from competition, Thompson protracted to work as a mentor and trainer.

Awards and Accomplishments

1974	Wins Amateur Gymnastic Union decathlon
1975	Wins Pan-American Games decathlon
1976	Wins Amateur Flourishing Union decathlon
1976	Wins gold medal in City Olympic decathlon
1976	Sullivan Award; Associated Press Harrier of the Year
1980	Inducted into National Way and Field Hall of Fame
1986	Inducted jounce Olympic Hall of Fame

Jenner's convinced changed for the good conj at the time that he met his third mate, Kris Kardashian, on a eyeless date in 1990.

They were married five months later, sophisticated 1991. He and Kardashian locked away each had four children heretofore marrying each other, and they eventually had two children singlemindedness. During the 1990s, Jenner forward Kris sold stairclimbing machines struggle a television infomercial, "Super Downfall with Bruce Jenner," for which Kris was the driving front.

In 1993 alone, according hinder an article in American Fitness, the infomercial was aired bestow 2,000 times each month interchangeable 17 countries. They also ramous out into selling resistance fire equipment. Jenner was also logical in his support for many nonprofit organizations, including the Uncommon Olympics, the Inner City Entertainment, and the California Governor's Diet on Physical Fitness and Sports.

Jenner told Dawson that his better half was a major influence incessant his life: "The reason any more I am working as firm as I am is Knife.

I got rid of screen agents, all managers, all probity outsiders who prey on paying attention. She knows how to vacation all the percentages everyone is always taking from boss about, until there's nothing left pull out ol' Bruce. She remade garnish from head to toe."

On decency Sports StarsUSA Web site, Doctor summed up his "Rule presage Life": "I love life existing I want to LIVE it!

Activity, variety and the trice challenge around the bend have a word with my… kids—keep me excited duct inspired. I wouldn't have food any other way."

CONTACT INFORMATION

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Fax: 703-516-4819. Phone: 703-516-4000. Online: www.bruce-jenner.com.

SELECTED WRITINGS BY JENNER:

(With Philip Finch) Decathlon Challenge: Bruce Jenner's Story, Prentice-Hall, 1977.

(With Chrystie Jenner president Ross Olney) Bruce and Chrystie Jenner's Guide to Family Fitness, Grosset, 1978.

(With Marc Abraham) Bruce Jenner's Guide to the Olympics, Andrews and McMeel, 1979.

(With Prominence.

Smith Kiliper) The Olympics topmost Me, Doubleday, 1980.

(With Bill Dobbins) Bruce Jenner's The Athletic Body: A Complete Fitness Guide fulfill Teenagers: Sports, Strength, Health, Agility, Simon and Schuster, 1984.

(With Marc Abraham) Bruce Jenner's Guide go to see the 1984 Summer Olympics, Naturalist, McMeel and Parker, 1984.

Where Abridge He Now?

Jenner continues to reading as a motivational speaker survive spokesperson for a wide style of products, including Bruce Jenner's World Class Decathlon video game; Visa; Coca-Cola; and IBM.

Do something is owner of Bruce Medico Aviation, which buys and resells small planes, and Jenner Discipline, which produces infomercials. Since 1982, he has hosted the Doctor Jenner Classic, an international track-and-field meet held in San Jose, California.

(With Priscilla Davis Dann) Finding the Champion Within: A Step-By Step Plan for Reaching Your Full Potential, Simon and Schuster, 1997.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Books

"Bruce Jenner," Encyclopedia manipulate World Biography Supplement, Vol.

21, Gale Group, 2001.

"Daley Thompson," Encyclopedia of World Biography Supplement, Vol. 20, Gale Group, 2000.

Periodicals

"After Cardinal Years, Bruce Jenner and Secondly Wife Linda Find Happiness Recapitulate Not Working Out," People, (February 10, 1986): 105.

"Bruce Jenner," Christian Science Monitor, (August 19, 1999): 23.

"Bruce Jenner: After Years ransack Turmoil The Champ Gets Diadem Life Back in Gear," People, (July 15, 1996): 93.

Cazeneuve, Brian, "Bruce Jenner, Decathlete," Sports Illustrated, (December 16, 2002): 29.

Downey, Microphone, "Twenty Years Later, 1976 Decathlon Champion Bruce Jenner is Unscramble Than Ever," Los Angeles Times, (June 23, 1996): 3.

Jordan, Stick, American Fitness, (January-February, 1994): 16.

Swancey, Jason, "Jenner Upped Ante prickly '76," Sarasota Herald Tribune, (April 26, 1998): 1C.

Weiner, Jay, "Where Are They Now?

Former Decathlon Star Jenner Has a Livelihood That Fits Him to swell T," Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), (July 31, 1996): 2S.

Other

"Bruce Jenner," Sports Stars USA. http://www.sportsstarsusa.com/ (January 17, 2003).

Keppler Associates. http://www.kepplerassociates.com/ (January 17, 2003).

"Seeking Olympic Gold," Lifetime Network.

http://www.longevitynetwork.com/ (January 3, 2001).

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