Ashleigh Gentle

0 Ashleigh Gentle
Ashleigh Gentle at the ITU World Triathlon Edmonton, 2015
Personal information
Date of birth	25th February 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Brisbane, Australia
size	171 cm
Weight	52 kg
societies
Current	Metz triathlon
Since 2018	Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team
successes
2007, 2008	2 × Vice World Champion Triathlon Juniors
2010	Junior world champion triathlon
2017	World Champion Mixed Relay
2013-2017	5 × winner of the Noosa Triathlon
2017	Vice world champion triathlon
status
active

Ashleigh Gentle (born February 25, 1991 in Brisbane ) is an Australian triathlete . She is junior world champion (2010) and runner-up on the short-distance triathlon (2017).

Career

Triathlon since 2005

Ashleigh Gentle started her first triathlon in 2005 at the age of 14.
In 2007 she became vice world champion in triathlon in Hamburg and in 2008 she was able to repeat this success.

Junior world champion triathlon 2010

In 2010 she became World Junior Champion in Beijing.

In July 2014 Ashleigh Gentle started together with Emma Moffatt , Emma Jackson , Aaron Royle , Dan Wilson and Ryan Bailie for Australia at the Commonwealth Games and finished ninth in Glasgow .

At her first start in the World Championship racing series, she finished second in Japan in May 2015 on the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running).

2016 Summer Olympics

Ashleigh Gentle competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics for Australia in Rio de Janeiro on August 20 - together with Erin Densham and Emma Moffatt . After a fall on her bike, she came in 26th.
In the 2016 ITU World Championship racing series , Ashleigh Gentle finished tenth as the second best Australian, behind Charlotte McShane (8th).

Vice-World Champion Triathlon 2017

In July 2017 she became world champion in mixed relay (mixed relay) in Hamburg with the Australian team and in August she won her first victory in the world championship series in Montreal. In the ninth and final race of the 2017 ITU racing series season, the then 26-year-old finished sixth in Rotterdam in September, making it runner-up on the short distance world championship.

She has been part of the Bahrain Elite Endurance Triathlon Team since 2018 . At the 2018 World Championship racing series, she finished sixth in the annual ranking as the best Australian when she won the last race in September.

Ashleigh Gentle is in a relationship with the triathlete Joshua Amberger (* 1989).

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish)

Web links

Commons : Ashleigh Gentle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ashleigh Gentle's blog page
• Ashleigh Gentle's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on March 14, 2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ashleigh Gentle, Emma Jackson, Dan Wilson, Ryan Bailie added to Commonwealth Games triathlon team (April 17, 2014)
2. ↑ Beijing International Triathlon - BROWNLEE WINS BEFORE BLUMMENFELT AND SCHOEMAN (September 24, 2018)
3. ^ Oceania: Gemmell wins, Hewitt fails
4. ↑ Vicky Holland, Kris Gemmell triumphs in Wellington
5. ↑ Perterer sensationally World Cup third in Edmonton (July 11, 2011)
6. ^ Oceania: Gemmell wins, Hewitt fails
7. ↑ Vicky Holland, Kris Gemmell triumphs in Wellington