Racquel Sheath
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Born | 27 November 1994 | ||||||||||||
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Racquel Sheath (born 27 November 1994) is a New Zealand track cyclist. She represented her nation at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.[1]
Sheath competed for the New Zealand team in the women's team pursuit at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[2] There, she delivered the quartet of Lauren Ellis, Jaime Nielsen, and Rushlee Buchanan a New Zealand record of 4:17.592 to ensure the team's spot in the medal race, before narrowly losing the face-off to their Canadian rivals (4:18.459) for the bronze by a 3.8-second margin.[3][4]
Career Results
- 2014
- Oceania Track Championships
- 1st Team Pursuit (with Lauren Ellis, Jaime Nielsen and Georgia Williams)
- 2nd Omnium
- BikeNZ Classic
- 3rd Points Race
- 3rd Scratch Race
- 2016
- Oceania Track Championships
- 2nd Madison (with Michaela Drummond}
- 2nd Omnium
- 2nd Team Sprint (with Emma Cumming)
- 3rd Points race
- 2017
- 3rd Team Pursuit, World Track Cycling Championships
- 2nd Omnium, National Track Cycling Championships
References
- ↑ "Racquel Sheath". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- ↑ "New Zealand finalise 19-rider Rio Olympic squad". Cyclingnews.com. 8 July 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ↑ "Rio Olympics 2016: Women's pursuit team to ride for bronze". The New Zealand Herald. 14 August 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- ↑ "Rio Olympics 2016: Women's team pursuiters miss out on bronze". Stuff.co.nz. 14 August 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
External links
- Racquel Sheath at Cycling Archives
- NZ Olympic Team Profile
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