Leon Chambers

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Leon Chambers
Personal information
Born17 April 1998 (1998-04-17) (age 26)
Years active2018-current
Sport
SportRowing
ClubSydney University Boat Club

Leon Chambers (born 17 April 1998) is an American-born Australian representative rower. He was twice an Australian U23 national champion and represented in the lightweight double-scull at the 2019 World Rowing Championships.

Club and state rowing[edit]

Chambers' senior club rowing in Australia is from the Sydney University Boat Club.[1]

In 2018 in SUBC colours, Chambers contested and won the U23 men's lightweight single scull and the lightweight double scull title (with Matthew Curtin) at the Australian Rowing Championships.[2]

International representative rowing[edit]

Chambers made his Australian representative debut at the 2018 World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne in a lightweight double scull .[3] In 2019 with Hamish Parry, Chambers raced in Australia's lightweight double scull at both World Rowing Cups in Europe[3] and was then selected to contest the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria.[4] The double was looking for a top seven finish at the 2019 World Championships to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.[5] They placed second in the B-final for an overall eighth place finish and failed to qualify the boat for Tokyo 2020.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Chambers at Rowing Australia". Archived from the original on 11 January 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  2. ^ 2018 Australian Championships
  3. ^ a b c "Chambers at World Rowing". Archived from the original on 27 April 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  4. ^ "2019 WRC entry list" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 August 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  5. ^ 2019 World Championship selections

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