Jessica Morrison

Jessica Morrison (born 18 May 1992) is an Australian representative rower and dual Olympian. She is an Australian national champion and won two silver medals at the 2019 World Rowing Championships. She competed in the Australian women's eight at the 2016 Summer Olympics and in two boats at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics doubling-up in the coxless pair and the coxless four. In the four at the Tokyo 2020 she won a gold medal and became an Olympic champion.

Club and state rowing Raised in Melbourne, Morrison's senior rowing was from the Mercantile Rowing Club.

Morrison was first selected to represent Victoria in the 2016 senior women's eight which won the Queen's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. She then rowed in the successful Victorian Queen's Cup eights of 2017 and 2018. She was in the 2019 Victorian crew who were finally beaten in the Queen's Cup by New South Wales after a fourteen year Victorian hold. In 2021 and 2023 she won further Queen's Cup victories in the Victorian women's eight.

At the New South Wales State Championships in February 2020 she rowed in crews which won the women's elite pair and the women's elite coxless four. In 2021 rowing with Annabelle McIntyre she won an Australian Championship title in the open women's coxless pair.

International representative rowing Morrison was in the Australian women's eight which initially missed qualification for the 2016 Rio Olympics but received a late call up following the Russian drug scandal. WADA had discovered Russian state sponsored drug testing violations and the IOC acted to protect clean athletes and set strict entry guidelines for Russian athletes resulting in most of their rowers and nearly all of their crews being withdrawn from the Olympic regatta. The crew had dispersed two months earlier after their failure to qualify but reconvened, travelled at the last minute to Rio and borrowed a shell. They finished last in their heat, last in the repechage and were eliminated.

In 2019 Morrison was back in representative contention and picked in the Australian women's sweep squad for the 2019 international season. With Annabelle McIntyre she was selected to race the coxless pair and they took a silver medal at Rowing World Cup II in Poznan and won the gold in that event at RWC III in Rotterdam. Morrison and McIntyre also secured seats at the pace-setting end of the Australian women's eight and rowing at seven behind Molly Goodman, Morrison won gold in Poznan and silver in Rotterdam. The pair were looking for a top eleven finish to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics and the eight was seeking a top five finish. In the pair they won their heat, quarter-final and semi-final, thereby qualifying the boat for Tokyo 2020.

In March 2023 she was again selected with McIntyre in the Australian senior women's sweep-oar squad for the 2023 international season. At the Rowing World Cup II in Varese, Italy Morrison and McIntyre raced as Australia's 2- entrant. They dominated the field in the A final and won the gold medal.