Leon Chambers

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.

Leon Chambers
Personal information
Born17 April 1998 (1998-04-17) (age 25)
Years active2018-current
Sport
SportRowing
ClubSydney University Boat Club

Club and state rowing

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

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
  1. "Chambers at Rowing Australia". Archived from the original on 11 January 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  2. 2018 Austn C'ships
  3. "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 C'ship selections
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