Chris Leach

{{short description|Canadian rower}}

{{for|the American finance scholar|J. Chris Leach}}

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| sport = Rowing

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| birth_place = St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

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Chris Leach (born 10 February 1942) is a Canadian rower. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/le/chris-leach-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418091642/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/le/chris-leach-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Chris Leach Olympic Results |access-date=12 August 2018}}

Following his Olympic career, Leach and his friend Lach MacLean attended Trent University, where the pair founded the Trent University Rowing Club in 1970.{{cite book |last=Jenish |first=D'Arcy |date=2014 |title=Trent University: celebrating 50 years of excellence |url=https://archive.org/details/trentuniversityc0000jeni/page/135 |location=Peterborough, Ontario |publisher=Trent University |pages=[https://archive.org/details/trentuniversityc0000jeni/page/135 135–7] |isbn=978-1-77041-221-7 |author-link= }} One year later, Leach with the help of Trent University biology professor David Carlisle organized the first Head of the Trent rowing regatta on 23 October 1971.