Hunter Kemper, 4-time United States Olympic Triathlete
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Episode 323
Hunter Kemper is one of the most decorated U.S. triathletes in history. A four-time member of the U.S. Olympic triathlon team, he was one of only two men in the world to qualify for the first four Olympic triathlons (2000-2012).
His best finish at an Olympics was seventh in the 2008 Beijing Games. In 2005, he was ranked No. 1 in the International Triathlon Union world rankings, one of only two American male triathletes to earn such a ranking. He ended 2005 by being named the U.S. Olympic Committee Sportsman of the Year. In 2003, Kemper won a gold medal at the Pan American Games, becoming the first U.S. male to do so.
Last year in 2018, Kemper was inducted into the USA Triathlon Hall of Fame. At the ceremony, he also announced his retirement from competition.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Kemper about the difficult adjustment to retirement, competing in four Olympic Games, what faith looked like at the Olympics, how he came to know Christ in college at Wake Forest, his favorite moment at the Olympics, and the tension he wrestled with in sharing his faith as an elite athlete.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
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| 0:56.0 | Today's guest on the podcast is Hunter Kemper. |
| 0:59.8 | Hunter is a former United States Olympic triathlete from 1998 to 2016. |
| 1:07.0 | He's a 2018 USA Triathlon Hall of Fame inductee. And he's a winner of the gold medal at the Pan Am Games in 2003 and a silver medal at the 1999 Pan Am Games. |
| 1:19.0 | He's a four-time Olympian, the 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012 Olympic Games, Hunter was a part of. |
| 1:27.4 | At one time, the number one ranked triathlete in the |
| 1:31.8 | world in 2005 and 2006. And listen, he's the most decorated U.S. triathlete in history. |
| 1:41.5 | This was a fun podcast talking to Hunter about his journey, about just the crazy |
| 1:46.5 | training that is involved in being a triathly. And even what is a triathlon, you know, I kind |
| 1:53.5 | of had to learn that myself from him and learning that it's swimming and biking and running. |
| 1:58.6 | But there's so much more to Hunter's story. |
| 2:01.2 | Certainly his faith is strong. |
| 2:03.2 | But he has a wonderful ability to share stories and make them, I should say, intertwine |
| 2:11.3 | them into a podcast. |
| 2:13.1 | And he shared a lot of great stories, including swimming in front of 700,000 people in Sydney, Australia at the 2000 Olympic Games and being protected by the potential for sharks to come into the area where he was swimming at, which is just nuts. |
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