After finishing middle school in 1962 she was trained as a bank clerk and passed the exam as banker in 1969.
From 1972 to 1974 she continued her education in evening classes and passed the university entrance exam.
After her Diploma in Physical Education in 1978, she was hired as non-permanent lecturer in gymnastics by the Kopenhagen Sports Institute.
Else Trangbæk has internationalized the Scandinavian experience and research in the history of women sports.
She started very early in interviewing active sports women of the first generation by means of Oral History.