{{Short description|British rower (born 1995)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2017}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Jessica Leyden | image = Jessica Leyden (GBR) 2022.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1995|2|22|df=y}} | birth_place = | hometown = Todmorden, West Yorkshire<ref>[https://www.britishrowing.org/athlete/jessica-leyden/ Jessica Leyden at British Rowing]</ref> | headercolor = lightsteelblue | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Women's rowing}} {{MedalCountry|{{GBR2}}}} {{MedalComp|World Championships}} {{MedalBronze|2017 Sarasota|Quadruple sculls}} {{MedalBronze|2022 Račice|Quadruple sculls}} {{MedalComp|European Championships }} {{MedalGold|2022 Munich|Quadruple sculls}} {{MedalBronze|2017 Račice|Quadruple sculls}} }} '''Jessica Leyden''' (born 22 February 1995) is a British rower.
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.<ref>{{cite news|title=Jessica Leyden claims gold for Britain at junior world rowing championship|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/rowing/10237208/Jessica-Leyden-claims-gold-for-Britain-at-junior-world-rowing-championship.html|date=12 August 2013|author=Rachel Quarrell|publisher=The Telegraph|accessdate=6 June 2017}}</ref> At the time, she was a student at Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brgs.org.uk/news/2012-10-25-jess-leyden-rowing-success|title=Jess Leyden Rowing Success|access-date=30 August 2019|archive-date=22 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922154138/https://www.brgs.org.uk/news/2012-10-25-jess-leyden-rowing-success|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldrowing.com/assets/pdfs/WCH_2017/ROW042101_C73.pdf |work=2017 World Rowing Championships |title=2017 World Championship|publisher=World Rowing |accessdate=16 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171001032137/https://www.worldrowing.com/assets/pdfs/WCH_2017/ROW042101_C73.pdf |archive-date=1 October 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.teamgb.com/news/three-boats-confirmed-for-tokyo-as-gb-eye-medals-at-rowing-worlds|title=Three boats confirmed for Tokyo as GB eye medals at rowing worlds}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{World Rowing}} * {{Team GB|jessica-leyden|archive=20140316024845}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Leyden, Jessica}} Category:Living people Category:1995 births Category:Alumni of the Open University Category:British female rowers Category:European Rowing Championships medalists Category:People educated at Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School Category:People from Todmorden Category:Sportspeople from Sheffield Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain Category:21st-century British sportswomen