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Born | (1995-02-22) 22 February 1995 (age 29) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Home town | Todmorden, West Yorkshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jessica Leyden (born 22 February 1995) is a British rower.
In 2013, she won single sculls gold at the World Rowing Junior Championships, which made her the first British woman to win a global solo openweight rowing title at any level. At the time, she was a student at Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School. She won a bronze medal at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida, as part of the quadruple sculls with Bethany Bryan, Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne and Holly Nixon.
Leyden has twice won the Wingfield Sculls in 2016 and 2019 and also in 2019 it was announced she would represent Team GB at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
References
- Jessica Leyden at British Rowing
- Rachel Quarrell (12 August 2013). "Jessica Leyden claims gold for Britain at junior world rowing championship". The Telegraph. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- "Jess Leyden Rowing Success".
- "2017 World Championship" (PDF). 2017 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 October 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2020.
- "Three boats confirmed for Tokyo as GB eye medals at rowing worlds".
External links
- Jessica Leyden at World Rowing
- Jessica Leyden at Team GB (archived)
- Living people
- 1995 births
- Alumni of the Open University
- British female rowers
- European Rowing Championships medalists
- People educated at Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School
- People from Todmorden
- Sportspeople from Sheffield
- World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain
- 21st-century British sportswomen