Leah Saunders
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| Born | 7 February 1993 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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 in New South Wales) is an Australian national representative rower, a medallist at the 2018 World Rowing Championships.
Club and state rowing
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 2018 she rowed in New South Welsh senior women's eights contesting the Queen's Cup at the Australian Interstate Regatta.[3]
International representative rowing
Saunders made her Australian representative debut in 2011 at the World Junior Rowing Championships at Eton Dorney. She raced in the quad scull which finished in overall tenth place.[4] In 2014 and 2015 she rowed in Australian quads at the U23 World Rowing Championships.[4] They placed seventh at Varese 2014 and took a silver medal at Plovdiv 2015.[4] Saunders first made the Australian senior women's squad in 2017 and raced in the women's quad at the World Rowing Cups II and III in Europe before contesting the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota USA. At those World Championships the quad made the A final and finished in sixth place.[4]
The women's eight with Saunders at bow started their 2018 international campaign with a bronze medal win at the World Rowing Cup II in Linz, Austria.[4] Then at the WRC III in Lucerne they finished fifth. At the 2018 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv the Australian women's eight with Saunders in the bow seat, won their heat and placed third in the final winning the bronze medal.[4]
References
- Leah Saunders at FISA WorldRowing.com