The 27-year-old recorded the fastest qualifying time in Sunday's semi-finals giving her one of the favoured middle lanes for the lightweight women's single sculls A-final in Poznan.

With barely half a second separating the top five boats at the midway point, Nesbitt picked up the pace and took the lead.

Canada's Jill Moffatt, who had finished second to Nesbitt in the semi-final, responded to hit the front by the 1600-metre mark and as the Huon sculler tired, Fang Chen, of China, raced up the outside to pinch silver on the line.

Having won bronze and gold medals in the lightweight double (with fellow Tasmanian Ella Flecker) and quad at world cups in 2014 and 2017 respectively and also claimed a world championship quad silver medal, Nesbitt was delighted to land an individual medal.

"It was a good race but tough conditions," she said.

"The weather has been changing all week. Everyone wants to win so I'm stoked to come away with a medal.

"It's been a really good regatta here in Poznan."

Coached by Paul Newbon at Huon, Nesbitt has relocated to the women's National Training Centre in Penrith where she is under the guidance of Launceston-raised head coach John Keogh.

New South Welshman Sean Murphy, 23, completed a good day for Australia's single scullers by claiming gold in the men's final, picking up his first senior medal having not lost a race throughout the regatta.

Australia secured 10 A-final berths following semi-finals and repechages and will contest 11 Olympic boat class A-finals.

These include the women's four in which Huon's Sarah Hawe, 31, helped the Aussie crew win their semi.

World championships silver medallists in 2018, the crew has had one new addition with Olympia Aldersey coming in to join Hawe, Katrina Werry and Lucy Stephan who moved into the stroke seat.

The crew had won its heat to go straight to the semi-finals.

A working veterinarian, Hawe was selected for her first senior Australian rowing team at the age of 29 but has since been a part of four successful world cup gold medal triumphs plus a 2017 world title with Stephan, Werry and Molly Goodman.

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