Caitlyn Jenner

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Caitlyn Jenner

Jenner at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games prior to her gender transition
William Bruce Jenner
Born
October 28, 1949 (age 66)
Mount Kisco, New York, U.S.
Residence
Malibu, California, U.S.
Alma mater Graceland University
Years active 1970present
Net worth
US$100 million (2014 estimate)[1][2]
Television
Keeping Up with the Kardashians, I Am Cait
Religion
Christianity
Chrystie Crownover (m. 197281)
Spouse(s)
Linda Thompson (m. 198186)
Kris Jenner (m. 19912015)
Children
6, including Brandon Jenner
Brody Jenner
Kendall Jenner

Kylie Jenner
Sports career
Country
Sport
Event(s)
College team
Coached by

United States
American football, automobile racing and track and field
Decathlon
Graceland Yellowjackets
L. D. Weldon
Bert Bonanno
Randy Trentman
Medal record[hide]

Men's athletics
Competitor for the
United States
Olympic Games
1976 Montreal
Decathlon
Pan American Games
1975 Mexico City
Decathlon
Caitlyn Marie Jenner (born William Bruce Jenner, October 28, 1949), formerly Bruce
Jenner, is an American television personality and retired athletic champion. In 1976, Jenner
won the gold medal fordecathlon at the Montreal Summer Olympics. Since 2007, Jenner has
been appearing on E!'s reality television program Keeping Up with the Kardashians and is
currently starring in the reality show I Am Cait, which focuses on her gender transition.
Jenner was a college football player for the Graceland Yellowjackets before incurring a knee
injury requiring surgery. Coach L.D. Weldon, who had coached Olympic decathlete Jack
Parker, convinced Jenner to try the decathlon. After intense training, Jenner won the 1976
Olympic decathlon title (after a Soviet athlete had won the title in 1972) during the Cold War,[3]
[4][5] gaining fame as "an all-American hero".[6][7] A third successive world record led to the
unofficial title of "world's greatest athlete", which traditionally goes to the winner of the
Olympic decathlon.[8] Jenner subsequently established a career in television, film, authoring,
as a Playgirl cover model, auto racing and business.[9]
Jenner has six children from marriages to Chrystie Crownover, Linda Thompson and Kris
Jenner. A few months after divorcing Kris, Jenner revealed her gender identification as a trans
woman in an April 2015 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer and publicly announced her name
change from Bruce to Caitlyn in a July 2015 Vanity Fair cover story. Her name and gender
change became official on September 25, 2015. [10] She is now one of the most famous
openly transgender people in the world.[11][12][13]

Contents
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1 Early life
2 Olympic career
3 Post-Olympic career
3.1 Capitalizing on Olympic fame
3.1.1 Wheaties spokesperson
3.2 Television and film career
3.3 Motorsports career
3.4 Business
4 Personal life
4.1 Marriages
4.2 Fatal car crash
4.3 Coming out as a transgender woman
5 Gender transition
5.1 General media attention
5.2 LGBT community
5.3 I Am Cait
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Early life
Jenner was born on October 28, 1949, in Mount Kisco, New York[14] to Esther R.
(ne McGuire) and William Hugh Jenner. Her father was an arborist.[15][16] Her father and
paternal grandparents were from Canada. [17] She has two sisters, Lisa and Pam.[18] Her
younger brother, Burt, was killed in a car accident in Canton, Connecticut, in 1976, shortly
after Jenner's success at the Olympics.[19][20]
As a young child, Jenner was diagnosed with dyslexia.[21] She attended Sleepy Hollow High
School inSleepy Hollow, New York for freshman and sophomore years[22][23] and Newtown

High School in Newtown, Connecticut for junior and senior years, graduating in 1968.
[24] Jenner earned a footballscholarship and attended Graceland College (now Graceland
University) in Lamoni, Iowa, but was forced to stop playing football and switch to
the decathlon because of a knee injury.[25] Jenner's mentor, Graceland track
coach L. D. Weldon, was the first to recognize Jenner's potential and encouraged her to
pursue the decathlon.[26] Jenner debuted in the decathlon at the Drake Relays in Des
Moines, Iowa in 1970, placing fifth.[27]Jenner graduated from Graceland College in 1973 with
a degree in physical education.[28]

Olympic career
At the 1972 men's decathlon U.S. Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon, Jenner was in fifth place
behind Steve Gough and Andrew Pettes. Needing to make up a 19-second gap on Gough in
the men's 1500 meters, Jenner ran a fast last lap, separating from the other runners by 22
seconds to make the Olympic team, leading the Eugene Register-Guard to ask "Who's
Jenner?"[29][30] A tenth-place finish in the decathlon event at the 1972 Summer
Olympics in Munich followed.[31] Watching Soviet Mykola Avilov win inspired Jenner to start an
intense training regimen. "For the first time, I knew what I wanted out of life and that was it,
and this guy has it. I literally started training that night in midnight, running through the streets
of Munich, Germany, training for the Games. I trained that day on through the 1976 Games,
6-8 hours a day, every day, 365 days a year." [32]
After graduating from Graceland, Jenner married girlfriend Chrystie Crownover and moved
to San Jose, California. Chrystie provided most of the family income working as a flight
attendant for United Airlines.[33] Jenner sold insurance at night (earning US$9,000 a year),
[34] while training during the day. [35] In the era before professionalism was allowed in athletics,
this kind of training was unheard of. During this period, Jenner trained at theSan Jose City
College (SJCC) track.[36] Centered around Bert Bonanno, the coach at SJCC, San Jose was
at the time a hotbed for training which was called the "Track Capital of the World", [35] and
included many other aspiring Olympic athletes, such as Millard Hampton, Andre Phillips, John
Powell, Mac Wilkins, and Al Feuerbach.[36][37] Jenner's most successful events were the skill
events of the second day.[6][38]
Jenner was the American champion in the men's decathlon event in 1974, and was featured
on the cover of Track & Field News's August 1974 issue.[39][40] While on tour in 1975, Jenner
won the French national championship. [41] This was followed by new world records of 8,524
points at the U.S.A./U.S.S.R./Poland triangular meet in Eugene, Oregon on August 910,
1975, breaking Avilov's record, and 8,538 points at the 1976 Olympic trials, also in Eugene. [30]
At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Jenner achieved five personal bests on the first day
of the men's decathlon, a "home run." Despite finishing the first day in second place
behind Guido Kratschmer of West Germany, "The second day has all my good events. If
everything works out all right, we should be ahead after it's all over." On the second day,
Jenner had a strong showing in the hurdles and discus, and personal bests in the pole vault
and javelin.[42] By that point, victory was virtually assured, but it remained to be seen by how
much Jenner would improve the record. In the final event, the 1500 meters seen live on
national television, Jenner looked content to finish the long competition. Then Jenner sprinted
the last lap, making up a 50 meter deficit and nearly catching the event favorite Soviet Leonid
Litvinenko who was already well out of contention for the overall title but whose personal best
had been 8 seconds better than Jenner's before the race. Jenner set a new personal best

time, taking the gold medal with a world-record score of 8,616 points. [43][6][30][32]