Ashleigh Gentle (born 25 February 1991 in South Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian triathlete who was selected as part of the team for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She took second at the 2017 ITU World Triathlon Series World Championship.
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Biography
Ashleigh Gentle was born in South Brisbane, Queensland, on 25 February 1991, but now lives on the Gold Coast. She has two brothers. She attended St Vincent's Primary School and All Saints Anglican School. In 2009, she entered Griffith University, where as of 2016, she is studying for a Bachelor of Public Health degree in nutrition. She has trained with the Australian Institute of Sport and the Queensland Academy of Sport. Her partner is long distance triathlete Josh Amberger.
At school, Gentle participated in many different sports, including touch football, netball, athletics and cross country running. In 2004, a family friend persuaded her to take up triathlon. Initially this was to improve her running times, but she soon found that she enjoyed the swimming and cycling too. She won silver at the Junior World Championships in Hamburg in 2007 and Vancouver in 2008 before winning in Budapest in 2010.
In 2011, she ran in her first ITU World Triathlon Series (WTS) event, and was placed ninth. In 2012 and 2013, she ran in ten WTS events, and was placed in the top ten in all of them. She has been coached by Cliff English since 2014. She won silver in Yokohama in 2015 and 2016, and in Abu Dhabi in 2016. By May 2016, she was ranked third in the world. In May 2016, the Australian Olympic Committee announced Gentle's selection as one of six triathletes who would represent Australia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, her first Olympics.
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External links
- "Ashleigh Gentle". Personal blog. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
- Ashleigh Gentle at the International Triathlon Union
- Ashleigh Gentle at the International Olympic Committee
- Ashleigh Gentle at the Australian Olympic Committee
- Ashleigh Gentle at Sports Reference
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