Ashleigh Gentle

Ashleigh Gentle, born on 25 February 1991 in South Brisbane, Queensland, is an Australian triathlete who lives on the Gold Coast and is married to the long distance triathlete Josh Amberger. A family friend persuaded her to take up triathlon in 2004 to improve her running, and she won junior world silver in 2007 and 2008 and gold in 2010. She finished second overall in the 2017 ITU World Triathlon Series, her career best, and was selected for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, her first Olympics, where she placed 26th. In 2018 she won the Grand Final race on the Gold Coast, and she won the Escape from Alcatraz triathlon in 2015 and again in 2019. She trained with the Australian Institute of Sport and the Queensland Academy of Sport and studied public health at Griffith University.