Hunter Craig Kemper is a triathlete

Triathlon

A triathlon is a multi-sport event involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance events. While many variations of the sport exist, triathlon, in its most popular form, involves swimming, cycling, and running in immediate succession over various distances...

 from the United States

United States

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. He won the silver medal at the 1999 Pan American Games

1999 Pan American Games

The 1999 Pan American Games, officially the XIII Pan American Games or the 13th Pan American Games, was a major international multi-sport event that was held from July 23-August 8, 1999 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Approximately 5,000 athletes from 42 nations participated at the games. The 1999...

, behind Venezuela's Gilberto González

Gilberto Gonzalez

Gilberto Carlos González Parra is a triathlete from Venezuela.González competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took thirty-seventh place with a total time of 1:52:13.03. Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics, González again competed. He placed thirty-sixth...

, followed by the gold four years later in Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo

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.

He attended Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University

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 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

2000 Summer Olympics

The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

. He took seventeenth place with a total time of 1:50:05.56.

Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

, 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

Triathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics

The Triathlon competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics, in Beijing, were held on Monday, August 18 and Tuesday, August 19 , on the Triathlon Venue at the Ming Tomb Reservoir in Shisanling....

 in Beijing

Beijing

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, he finished in seventh place with a time of 1:49:48.75.

Kemper is the only American male triathlete to ever be ranked world #1 by the International Triathlon Union (ITU). In July 2006, he won the Lifetime Fitness Triathlon in Minneapolis, MN, winning what was at the time the largest purse in professional triathlon competition.