Jessica Leyden, Great Britain’s first junior world champion in the single sculls.

The 2013 World Rowing Junior Championships in Trakai, Lithuania, ended today. This regatta was the main qualification regatta for new Youth Olympic Games, YOG, which will be rowed for the first time next year, 2014. To read more about the Junior Championships, FISA has race reports and results on their web site, here.

Read what Rachel Quarrell, of the Daily Telegraph, has to say about Leyden’s victory, here.