Hunter Kemper

Hunter Kemper is an American triathlete, born on 4 May 1976, who competed at four Olympic Games. He studied business administration at Wake Forest University, where he was a four-year member of the cross country and track teams, and graduated in 1998. He won silver at the 1999 Pan American Games and gold at the 2003 edition. In the Olympic triathlon he placed seventeenth at Sydney in 2000, ninth at Athens in 2004, seventh at Beijing in 2008 and fourteenth at London in 2012, where he led the American team. He is one of only two American men ever ranked world number one by the International Triathlon Union, and in 2006 he won the Life Time Fitness Triathlon in Minneapolis, then the largest purse in professional triathlon.