title: Racquel Sheath
text: # 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
  