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 wrestling 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[update], she lives in Adelaide[1] where she is a physiotherapist, and pilates instructor.[6][7] Her brother is former 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 wrestling.[7]
Stenson is 166 centimetres (65 in) tall and weighs 52 kilograms (115 lb).[1]
Athletics
Stenson's 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[update], she was coached by Adam Didyk,[4] prior to that was coached by Roger Pedrick.
Stenson 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 Championshipsmarathon in a time of 2:28:59. This was the best performance by an Australian woman in a World Championship.[14]
^"Women's Marathon". Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 7 August 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
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