Jessica Morrison

Jessica Morrison OAM (born 18 May 1992) is an

Jessica Morrison
Australian representative rower and dual Olympian.
OAM
She is an Australian national champion and won two
silver medals at the 2019 World Rowing Personal information
Championships. She competed in the Australian Nationality Australian
women's eight at the 2016 Summer Olympics[1] and in
Born 18 May 1992
two boats at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics doubling-up in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
the coxless pair and the coxless four.[2][3] In the four at
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
the Tokyo 2020 she won a gold medal and became an
Olympic champion. Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Country Australia
Club and state rowing Sport Rowing

Raised in Melbourne, Morrison's senior rowing was Event All sweep boats
from the Mercantile Rowing Club. Club Mercantile Rowing Club
Achievements and titles
Morrison was first selected to represent Victoria in the
2016 senior women's eight which won the Queen's Cup National finals Queen's Cup 2016-21, 23
at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Medal record
Championships.[4] She then rowed in the successful Women's rowing
Victorian Queen's Cup eights of 2017 and 2018.[5] She Representing Australia
was in the 2019 Victorian crew who were finally
Olympic Games
beaten in the Queen's Cup by New South Wales after a
fourteen year Victorian hold.[6] In 2021 and 2023 she
won further Queen's Cup victories in the Victorian
2020 Tokyo Coxless four
women's eight.[7][8]
2024 Paris Coxless pair
At the New South Wales State Championships in World Championships
February 2020 she rowed in crews which won the 2019 Ottensheim Coxless pair
women's elite pair and the women's elite coxless four.
2019 Ottensheim Eight
In 2021 rowing with Annabelle McIntyre she won an
2023 Belgrade Coxless pair
Australian Championship title in the open women's
coxless pair.[9]

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withdrawn from the Olympic regatta.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.[10]

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.[11] 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.[11] Morrison was selected in Australia's women's eight and also with McIntyre to
race Australia's coxless pair at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Linz, Austria.[12] The pair were
looking for a top eleven finish to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics and the eight was seeking a top five
finish.[13] In the pair they won their heat, quarter-final and semi-final, thereby qualifying the boat for
Tokyo 2020.[11] In the A-final they led the race through the 3 x 500m marks but were pipped by New
Zealand in a close finish and took the silver medal.[11] In the Australian women's eight they placed
second in their heat, came through the repechage and led in the final from the start and at all three 500m
marks until they were overrun by New Zealand by 2.7secs. The Australian eight took the silver medal and
qualified for Tokyo 2020.[11]

At the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 Morrison and McIntyre won their heat in the pair and two hours later
backed-up in the four with Rosie Popa and Lucy Stephan to hold out a fast finishing Irish crew for
another heat victory, setting a new Olympic best time in the process.[11] Four days later in the final of the
coxless four they led from the start, were challenged hard to the finish by the Dutch crew but took the
gold in another Olympic best time.[11] Two days rowing at the Olympic regatta were lost due to bad
weather and in the reshuffled schedule Morrison and McIntyre's semi-final in the pair started less than
two hours after the medal ceremony for the four. The girls were challenged in the semi and although they
finished less a second behind the winning Greek pair, they were in fourth place and missed the cut of the
A final.[11] Morrison and McIntyre won the petite final the next day for an overall seventh place in the
coxless pair at the Olympic regatta.[11]

At the Henley Royal Regatta in 2022 Morrison teamed up with American Meghan Musnicki and went
through to win the final of the Hambleden Pairs Challenge Cup over the British crew racing as
Leander.[14]

In March 2023 she was again selected with McIntyre in the Australian senior women's sweep-oar squad
for the 2023 international season.[15] 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.[11] They
backed up that performance three weeks later at the WRC III in Lucerne, winning their heat and semi-
final and comfortably taking gold in the W2- final.[11] Morrison and McIntyre contested the Australian
women's pair at the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia where they won their heat
and semi-final at which point they qualified the boat for the 2024 Paris Olympics.[11] In the A final they
were headed by the Dutch pair of Clevering and Meester off the start and that position remained
unchanged throughout the race. They had to settle for the silver medal and a second place world ranking
from the regatta.[11]
Accolades
In the 2022 Australia Day Honours Morrison was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.[16]

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External links
Jessica Morrison ([Link] at World Rowing
Jessica Morrison ([Link] at Rowing
Australia
Jessica Morrison ([Link] at Olympedia
Jessica Morrison ([Link] at [Link]
Jessica Morrison ([Link] at the
Australian Olympic Committee

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