Georgia Nesbitt

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. In 2021 she again stroked the Tasmanian women's lightweight quad to a Victoria Cup victory and also won an Australian Championship title in the open lightweight women's single scull.

International representative rowing Nesbitt made her Australian representative debut in 2013 in an U23 lightweight double scull. She rowed with Georgia Miansarow to a fifth place at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Linz.

In 2015, she competed at the World Championships in Aiguebelette in a single scull where she finished in eight place. The double were looking for a top seven finish at the 2019 World Championships to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. They placed third in the B-final for an overall ninth-place finish and failed to qualify the boat for Tokyo 2020.

In March 2022, Nesbitt was selected in the Australian training team to prepare for the 2022 international season and the 2022 World Rowing Championships. She rowed the lightweight women's single scull at both of the World Rowing Cups in June and July 2022, winning a silver medal at WRC III. At the 2022 World Rowing Championships at Racize, Nesbitt represented as Australia's lightweight women's single sculler, made the C final and finished the regatta in overall seventeenth place.

Professional A qualified solicitor who practises in Hobart, in 2023 Nesbitt was appointed to the board of Rowing Tasmania.