Robyn Selby Smith

Robyn Selby Smith (born 26 November 1980 in Melbourne) is an Australian former rower. She is a national champion, a three-time world champion and an Olympian whose international success came in sweep-oared heavyweight crews.

Club and state rowing Selby Smith's senior rowing was from the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne.

She was selected in representative Victorian state eights to compete for the Queen's Cup in the Interstate Regatta at the Australian Rowing Championships on ten occasions between 2002 and 2012. Those Victorian eights were victorious on seven of those occasions. In 2005 and 2006 she was also Victoria's senior sculling representative contesting the Nell Slatter Trophy at those same Australian championships.

International representative rowing Selby Smith made her first international representative appearance as stroke of Australia's women's coxless four at the 2004 World Rowing Championships in Banyoles, Spain. That crew finished eighth.

2005 was Selby Smith's year. She rowed in the Australian coxless pair and the eight to success at both Rowing World Cups that year in Europe and then was selected in both the eight and the coxless four for the 2005 World Rowing Championships in Gifu, Japan. Both crews were victorious and Robyn Selby Smith finished 2005 as a dual World Champion. It was Selby Smith last international outing in a stellar representative career.

Post competitive rowing Selby Smith has been club captain of the Mercantile Rowing Club since 2012. She was an Australian national rowing junior selector in 2013 to 2014. She is a solicitor in Melbourne.