Arielle Martin

Arielle Martin

Arielle Martin (aka Arielle Verhaaren) (age 22 in 2008) of Pleasant Grove, Utah, a US BMX cyclist, [http://www.active.com/actionsports/Articles/Arielle_Martin_Races_Toward_Beijing.htm] crashed in the quarter-finals at the World Championships held in Taiyuan, China, on June 2, 2008, with the result that Jill Kintner, her friend and roommate (Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California), came in in sixth place, which was enough to guarantee Jill the only automatic women's spot on the US BMX Olympic Team. USA Cycling has a 17-race points series, and Jill had 129 points to Martin's 128. Kintner made up and went beyond a 13-point deficit with her sixth place and Martin's crash, became the one US Women's representative in the BMX racing event, and received a bronze medal, a medal she says was half won by Martin, who, after crashing, returned to the training center to help Kintner train. [http://www.fatbmx.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4753] The two say that living together in the training center just made them able to push each other, as they remained neck and neck until Martin's accident. [http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/kyle-bennett-jill-kintner-win-usa-bmx-nationals-15390] They had worked so hard together that Kintner characterized her win as bittersweet, at first more bitter than sweet. [http://expn.go.com/expn/story?id=3423935] Martin finished a degree in exercise science in 2007 at Brigham Young University. She was married in December 2007 to Michael Verhaaren and has taken his name except for when she is involved in bike competitions. They left their Utah home on separate missions, she to train for the Beijing Olympics, he to spend a year deployed in Afghanistan with the US Army. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/sports/othersports/30bmx.html] Martin's father was a BMX racer. As a tiny girl, she watched him, then started riding a BMX bike at the age of two. At 15 she turned pro and in October, 2007, became the third woman in the world to do a backflip on a BMX bike. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/sports/othersports/30bmx.html] Martin has said that missing the Beijing Olympics made her more determined than ever to remain at the top in BMX and to compete at the 2012 London Games. [http://www.sltrib.com/sports/ci_10274362]

References

See also

* List of cyclists
* List of Brigham Young University Alumni
* Jill Kintner
* BMX racing


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