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| I wouldn't say it was that unusual to use it as a noun
"I've attended the training"
"I distributed the information"
"I've reviewed all the information that I got at the training"
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I think a native speaker, even a yankee, would be more likely to say "...training course/seminar" as 'training' is just to vague, using it as an adjective rather than a noun especially in this context, though I'm old school and hang with the pedantic kind who also use complete words and sentences in texting so I may be biased.
However, just because it has the "-ing" suffix doesn't make it a verb necessarily. It can be both, depending on how it's used.