Jessica Stenson (née Trengove; born 15 August 1987) is an Australian athlete who won the gold medal in the marathon at the

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in Birmingham. As a

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, she competes in distances from

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up to the

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. She represented Australia at the 2012 London Olympics and 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in the

Background

Nicknamed Trenny, Trengove was born on 15 August 1987 in Naracoorte, South Australia. She attended Naracoorte Primary School before going to Naracoorte High School and boarding school

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, having moved to Adelaide to attend the school at the start of year 10. She attended the University of South Australia from 2006 to 2009 where she earned a Bachelor of Physiotherapy. She participated in wrestling from the age of nine to the age of twenty-one. She played netball for

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in 2008. She also played basketball, competing in the South Australia 12–19 State Country U18s. , she lives in Adelaide where she is a physiotherapist, and pilates instructor. Her brother is former

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player

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, and has been influential in her running career by creating a sense of competition in her family. The family competition also included Trengove's sister Abbie, who represented their state in wrestling. Stenson is an ambassador for The

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, Jodi Lee Foundation and

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. Stenson is tall and weighs .

Athletics

Stenson's running career started when she was in primary school, where she ran south east cross country. In 2000, she was selected for the South Australia representative cross country team. , she was coached by Adam Didyk, prior to that was coached by Roger Pedrick. Stenson competed in the City to Bay Run in 2010, finishing first. That year, she also competed at the Nanning, China hosted

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. She ran her first marathon in March 2012, where she set an Olympic A qualifying time of 2 hours, 31 minutes. In 2012, her training regime included running up to a week. On her light training days, she ran . Trengove was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's marathon. She was the third South Australian athletics competitor to qualify for the Games, and prepared for them by training in Adelaide. 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. At the

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, she won the bronze medal, running a then personal best of 2:30:12. She came 22nd in the same event at the

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in a time of 2:31:44. She finished ninth in the

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in a time of 2:28:59. This was the best performance by an Australian woman in a World Championship.

Personal bests

As of July 2024, her personal best times are: *Long Jump: 3.68m, Adelaide, 1998 *1,500 metres: 4:26.9, Adelaide, 2013. *5,000 metres: 15:35, Adelaide, November 2016. *10,000 metres: 32:17, Stanford, April 2015. * half marathon: 1:10:08, Gold Coast July 2024. *

: 2:24:01, Daegu, 7 April 2024.

Results

Her results include: * Gold Medal st, 2:27:31 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games Marathon *1st, 2:27:45, 2015 Melbourne Marathon *24th, 1:14:21, IAAF / SINOPEC World Half Marathon Championships, Nanning, 16 October 2010 *14th, Nagoya International Women's Marathon, Nagoya, 11 March 2012 *71st, IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Punta Umbría, 20 March 2011 *Winner, 2011 City2Surf, Sydney, 2011

Recognition

* 2016 - People's Choice Award at the Advertiser/Channel 7 Sport Star of the Year awards. * October 2022 - Awarded the Australian Sports Medal for her achievements at the Commonwealth Games. * 2022 - Australian Institute of Sport Female Athlete of The Year

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