Jessica Trengove

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Jessica Trengove
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Trengove at the 2017 London Marathon
Personal information
Nickname(s)Jess
NationalityAustralian
Born (1987-08-15) 15 August 1987 (age 34)
Naracoorte, South Australia, Australia
Height1.66 m (5 ft 5+12 in) (2012)
Weight52 kg (115 lb) (2012)
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportAthletics
Event(s)1500 metres
5000 metres
10,000 metres
Half marathon
Marathon
Medal record

Jessica Trengove (born 15 August 1987) is an Australian long-distance runner who competes in distances from 5000 metres up to the marathon. She represented Australia at the 2012 London Olympics and 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in the marathon.

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Background

Nicknamed Trenny, Trengove was born on 15 August 1987 in Naracoorte, South Australia. [1] [2] She attended Naracoorte Primary School before going to Naracoorte High School and boarding school Annesley College, [1] [3] having moved to Adelaide to attend the school at the start of year 10. [3] She attended the University of South Australia from 2006 to 2009 where she earned a Bachelor of Physiotherapy. [1] She participated in netball from the age of nine to the age of twenty-one. She played netball for Contax in 2008. [4] [5] She also played basketball, competing in the South Australia 12–19 State Country U18s. [5] [6] As of 2012, she lives in Adelaide [1] where she is a physiotherapist, and pilates instructor. [6] [7] Her brother is Port Adelaide Football Club player Jack Trengove, [8] and has been influential in her running career by creating a sense of competition in her family. [3] [7] The family competition also included Trengove's sister Abbie, who represented their state in rowing. [7]

Jess is an ambassador for The Little Heroes Foundation, Jodi Lee Foundation and Bupa.

Trengove is 166 centimetres (65 in) tall and weighs 52 kilograms (115 lb). [1]

Athletics

Her running career started when she was in primary school, where she ran south east cross country. [3] In 2000, she was selected for the South Australia representative cross country team. [3] As of 2008, she was coached by Adam Didyk. [4] Prior to that was coached by Roger Pedrick.

She competed in the City to Bay Run in 2010, finishing first. [7] That year, she also competed at the Nanning, China hosted World Half Marathon Championships. [3] She ran her first marathon in March 2012, [9] where she set an Olympic A qualifying time of 2 hours, 31 minutes. [4] In 2012, her training regime included running up to 160 kilometres (99 mi) a week. [9] On her light training days, she ran 12 kilometres (7.5 mi). [9] Trengove was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's marathon. [1] [10] She was the third South Australian athletics competitor to qualify for the Games, [4] and prepared for them by training in Adelaide. [8] She finished the Olympic marathon in 39th place with a time of 2:31:17, 8 minutes and 10 seconds behind the first-place finisher Tiki Gelana. [11] At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, she won the bronze medal, running a then personal best of 2:30:12. [12] She came 22nd in the same event at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in a time of 2:31:44. [13] She finished ninth in the 2017 IAAF World Championships marathon in a time of 2:28:59. This was the best performance by an Australian woman in a World Championship. [14]

Personal bests

As of January 2019, [2] her personal best times are:

Results

Her results include:

Recognition

In 2016, Trengove won the People's Choice Award at the Advertiser/Channel 7 Sport Star of the Year awards. [18]

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