Jessica Leyden
British rower (born 1995)
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Jessica Leyden (born 22 February 1995) is a British rower.
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| Born | 22 February 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Todmorden, West Yorkshire[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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]
