Racquel Sheath
# Racquel Sheath

Racquel Sheath (born 27 November 1994) is a retired New Zealand track and road cyclist. She represented her nation at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

Sheath competed for the New Zealand team in the women's team pursuit at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. 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.

Sheath retired from cycling in August 2020. Following her retirement, she became a financial adviser with her family's insurance company, and opened a nail salon in Cambridge.

## Major 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

### 2015

    6th Overall Tour of America's Dairyland

### 2016

    1st Criterium, National Road Championships
    Oceania Track Championships
       2nd Madison (with Michaela Drummond)
       2nd Omnium
       2nd Team sprint (with Emma Cumming)
       3rd Points race

### 2017

    Oceania Track Championships
       1st Omnium
       1st Team pursuit
    2nd Omnium, National Track Championships
    2nd Criterium, National Road Championships
    3rd Team pursuit, UCI Track Cycling World Championships
    6th White Spot / Delta Road Race

### 2018

    1st Criterium, National Road Championships
    2nd Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
