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Georgia Nesbitt

Australian rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ47346644 ↗
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Georgia Nesbitt (born 8 May 1992, in Tasmania) is an Australian former representative lightweight rower who made 10 representative appearances for Australia between 2013 and 2022. She was a seven-time national champion (winning three titles at the 2019 Australian Championships) and she won a silver medal at the 2017 World Rowing Championships. In 2022, prior to a serious cycling accident, she competed in Australian Road National championships and had qualified to participate in her age group at the 2023 Ironman World Championships in Helsinki.

Club and state rowing

Nesbitt's senior rowing has been from the Huon Rowing Club in southern Tasmania.

Nesbitt first made state selection for Tasmania in 2011 in the women's lightweight quad scull contesting the Victoria Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. She made five consecutive Victoria Cup appearances for Tasmania from 2011 to 2015, was in victorious Tasmanian quads in 2014 and 2015 and she stroked the 2014 crew. Tasmania did not enter a Victoria Cup quad in 2017 but in 2018 Nesbitt was back in the stroke seat for their third placing at the Interstate Regatta. In 2022, she again stroked the Tasmania women's lightweight quad to a Victoria Cup victory.

At the Australian Championships in 2015 she won the national lightweight single sculls title. At the 2019 Australian Championships she won three national titles - the women's lightweight single scull, the lightweight double scull (with her Huon clubmate Eve Mure) and she stroked the Tasmanian lightweight women's quad to victory for the Interstate Championship.

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