Bruce Jenner Biography

NAME: Bruce Jenner

OCCUPATION: Film Actor, Television Actor, Reality Television Star

BIRTH DATE: October 28, 1949 (Age: 62)

EDUCATION: Graceland College

PLACE OF BIRTH: Mount Kisco, New York

Track athlete, motivational speaker. Born William Bruce Jenner on October 28, 1949 in Mount Kisco, New York. As a boy, Bruce Jenner struggled with dyslexia and sought success through sports. In high school, he excelled in water skiing, football, basketball and track. He accepted a football scholarship from Graceland College in Iowa, but after a knee injury took him out of the game, he switched to track and field. His college track coach, L.D. Weldon, was the one who convinced Jenner to train for the Olympic decathlon.

In 1972, Jenner placed third in the Olympic trials and tenth at the Munich games. Four years later, he won a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, scoring a world record-setting 8,634 points in the decathlon. After his win, a bystander handed him an American flag, which he enthusiastically grabbed for a victory lap, a gesture that has been repeated in Olympic games ever since.

He pulled away from the spotlight during the late 1980s, but resurfaced in the 2000s, his career in part rejuvenated by his third wife, Kris Kardashian. Jenner found a new career on fringe television, from I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! to Pet Star and Dancing with the Stars . His sons from a previous marriage, Brandon and Brody Jenner, starred in a short-lived 2005 TV show, The Princes of Malibu, and Jenner himself became a regular in a reality series highlighting one of his step-daughters, Kim Kardashian (2007's Keeping Up with the Kardashians).

Kardashians wrapped its fifth season on October 24, 2010 with an audience of 4.1 million viewers, short of the series-record 4.8 million viewers for its fourth-season finale on February 28, 2010. The latter episode featured the birth of Kourtney's child with Scott Disick.