Leah Saunders
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| Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 February 1993 New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Quadruple sculls, Eight | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Sydney Rowing Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| National finals | Queen's Cup 2015-18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Leah Saunders (born 7 February 1993) is an Australian former representative rower, a medallist at the 2018 and 2019 World Rowing Championships.
Saunders was raised in northern New South Wales and first rowed from the Lower Clarence Rowing Club before coming to Sydney in 2011 and taking up at the Sydney Rowing Club.
She was first selected to represent New South Wales in the women's youth eight which contested and won the Bicentennial Cup in the Interstate Regatta at the 2012 Australian Rowing Championships.[1] In 2013 she rowed again in a victorious New South Wales youth eight.[2] For five consecutive years from 2014 to 2019 she rowed in New South Welsh senior women's eights contesting the Queen's Cup at the Australian Interstate Regatta.[3] In 2019 that New South Wales Women's eight broke the 14 year Victorian stronghold and took a Queen's Cup victory.[4]
