She is 180 cm tall, weighs 80 kg and currently resides in Napier, New Zealand. In 2002, she broke the indoor 2000 m rowing world record, recording a time of 6 minutes and 28.5 seconds beating the previous record by 2.1 seconds. In January 2009, Evers-Swindell married Sam Earl, himself a former New Zealand rower.
Since then, she has styled herself Georgina Earl.
She competed in the double sculls with her identical twin sister Caroline Evers-Swindell, and is a double Olympic gold medallist, having won at Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008. In 2001, she won silver at the World Championships in both the double and quadruple sculls. Together with her sister she won gold at both the 2002 and 2003 Rowing World Championships in the double sculls. In the 2005 New Year Honours, she was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to rowing. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, she and her sister won gold medals in the women"s double sculls, beating the German double by 1/100 of a second, 7:07.32 versus 7:07.33. In December 2008, she and her sister won the Lonsdale Cup which is awarded by the New Zealand Olympic Committee to the athlete/s who make the most outstanding contribution to an Olympic sport. They previously won the cup in 2003.
This was the first time in history that the women"s double scull title had successfully been defended.
