Racquel Sheath

{{short description|New Zealand cyclist}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1994|11|27|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Morrinsville, New Zealand

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| currentteam = Retired

| disciplines = {{ubl|Track|Road}}

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{{MedalSport | Women's track cycling}}

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{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalBronze|2017 Hong Kong|Team pursuit}}

{{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}}

{{MedalSilver|2018 Gold Coast|Team pursuit}}

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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.{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=81558|title=Racquel Sheath|access-date=7 February 2015|work=procyclingstats.com}}

Sheath competed for the New Zealand team in the women's team pursuit at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.{{cite news|title=New Zealand finalise 19-rider Rio Olympic squad|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/new-zealand-finalise-19-rider-rio-olympic-squad/|publisher=Cyclingnews.com|date=8 July 2016|access-date=6 February 2017}} 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.{{cite news|title=Rio Olympics 2016: Women's pursuit team to ride for bronze|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11693368|publisher=The New Zealand Herald|date=14 August 2016|access-date=6 February 2017}}{{cite news|title=Rio Olympics 2016: Women's team pursuiters miss out on bronze|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/83144064/Rio-Olympics-2016-Womens-team-pursuiters-miss-out-on-bronze|publisher=Stuff.co.nz|date=14 August 2016|access-date=6 February 2017}}

Sheath retired from cycling in August 2020.{{Cite web|date=2020-08-13|title=Cycling New Zealand loses another track star|url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/423424/cycling-new-zealand-loses-another-track-star|access-date=2021-08-15|website=RNZ |language=en-nz}} Following her retirement, she became a financial adviser with her family's insurance company, and opened a nail salon in Cambridge.{{cite web|url=https://www.essentialinsurances.co.nz/racquel-sheath/|title=Racquel Sheath|website=EssentialInsurances.co.nz|publisher=Essential Insurances Ltd|accessdate=10 July 2022}}