Racquel Sheath

Racquel Sheath

To person
Date of birth	November 27, 1994
nation	New Zealand
discipline	train
Driver type	Bahn: perseverance
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 2017 - team pursuit Oceanic Cycling Championships 2014 - team pursuit
Last updated: August 10, 2019

Racquel Sheath (born November 27, 1994 in Morrinsville ) is a New Zealand cyclist.

Racquel Sheath comes from a cycling family and started cycling at a young age. In 2012 she won two medals at the Junior World Track Championships in Invercargill, New Zealand . In 2014 she moved to the elite and has been part of the team pursuit since then ; in the same year the team won the Oceania Championship.

At the UCI Track World Championships 2016 in London, the team finished fourth with Sheath, Lauren Ellis , Jaime Nielsen and Rushlee Buchanan . In the same year Racquel Sheath was nominated for the start in the team pursuit at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . Together with Jaime Nielsen, Rushlee Buchanan and Georgia Williams , she finished fourth. At the 2017 UCI Track World Championships in Hong Kong , she won the bronze medal in the team pursuit with Rushlee Buchanan, Kirstie James , Jaime Nielsen and Michaela Drummond .

successes

2012

• Junior World Championship - Team Pursuit (with Cassie Cameron and Alysha Keith )
• Junior World Championship - Team Pursuit (with Cassie Cameron and Alysha Keith)

2014

• Oceania Champion - Team Pursuit (with Lauren Ellis , Jaime Nielsen and Georgia Williams )
• Oceania Championship - Omnium

2017

• World Championship - Team Pursuit (with Rushlee Buchanan , Kirstie James , Jaime Nielsen and Michaela Drummond )
• Track Cycling World Cup in Santiago de Chile - two-man team driving (with Michaela Drummond), team pursuit (with Bryony Botha , Annie Foreman-Mackey and Allison Beveridge )
• Pan American Championship - Omnium, two-man team driving (with Michaela Drummond), team sprint (with Emma Cumming )
• Pan American Championship - points race
• New Zealand Champion - two-man team driving (with Michaela Drummond), team pursuit (with Rushlee Buchanan, Jaime Nielsen and Bryony Botha)

2017/18

• Oceania Champion - Omnium, Team Pursuit (with Bryony Botha, Rushlee Buchanan, Michaela Drummon and Kirstie James)
• Oceania Championship - Two Team Driving (with Rushlee Buchanan)

2018

• Commonwealth Games - Team Pursuit (with Bryony Botha, Michaela Drummond, Kirstie James and Rushlee Buchanan)

2019

• World Cup in Cambridge - Team Pursuit (with Bryony Botha, Rushlee Buchanan and Kirstie James)
• New Zealand Champion - Team Sprint (with Ellesse Andrews )

Web links

• Racquel Sheath in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Racquel Sheath in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Racquel Sheath - New Zealand Olympic Team. In: olympic.org.nz. July 9, 2016, accessed August 7, 2016 .