Leon Chambers

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

Leon Chambers
Personal information
Born17 April 1998 (1998-04-17) (age 22)
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 U23 men's lightweight single scull and the lightweight double scull (with Matthew Curtin) title 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 were 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
  2. 2018 Austn C'ships
  3. Chambers at World Rowing
  4. 2019 WRC entry list
  5. 2019 World C'ship selections
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