Jamieson Leeson

Jamieson Leeson (born 18 March 2003) is an Australian boccia player. She represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. She won a gold and silver medal at the 2022 World Championships.

Early life She was born on 18 March 2003 with spinal muscular atrophy. She uses a wheelchair and her mother, Amanda, is her primary carer. The rugby league's Men of League Foundation provided her family with a customised van with specialist wheelchair lift to help her daily transport. She grew up in Dunedoo, New South Wales and attended Dunedoo Central School. In 2024, she is studying a Bachelor of Economics full-time at the University of New South Wales.

Boccia She began playing in 2018 where she was scouted in a school's knock out competition in Orange, New South Wales and trains in Sydney under Australia's Boccia Head Coach Ken Halliday. In 2021, she received a Tier 3 Scholarship within the Sport Australia Hall of Fame Scholarship & Mentoring Program.

She competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris with her ramp assistant Jasmine Haydon. She won silver in the Women's Individual Bc3, Australia's best ever performance in boccia. Leeson and Daniel Michel lost in the Mixed pairs BC3 quarter-finals.

Recognition In 2023, Leeson with Daniel Michel was awarded the Sport NSW Team of the Year with a Disability and Australian Institute of Sport Performance Awards Team of the Year.