Leon Chambers
American-born Australian rower

Leon Chambers

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American-born Australian rower
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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.

Club and state rowing

Chambers' senior club rowing in Australia is from the Sydney University Boat Club.

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.

International representative rowing

Chambers made his Australian representative debut at the 2018 World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne in a lightweight double scull .In 2019 with Hamish Parry, Chambers raced in Australia's lightweight double scull at both World Rowing Cups in Europeand was then selected to contest the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria. The double were looking for a top seven finish at the 2019 World Championships to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. They placed second in the B-final for an overall eighth place finish and failed to qualify the boat for Tokyo 2020.