Jessica Leyden
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| Born | 22 February 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Todmorden, West Yorkshire[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.[2] At the time, she was a student at Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School.[3] 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.[4]
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.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ 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
[edit]- Jessica Leyden at World Rowing
- Jessica Leyden at Team GB (archived)
Categories:
- 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