Racquel Nugent

Racquel Nugent
Medal record
Athletics
Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap
1992 Madrid Women's Long Jump
IPC Athletics World Championships
1994 Berlin Women's Long Jump T20
1994 Berlin Women's 200 m T20

Racquel Nugent (born 1968) [1] from Queensland is an Australian athlete with an intellectual disability. At the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap, she won a bronze medal.

Career

Competing at the 1st World Games for Athletes with an Intellectual Disability in Harnosand, Sweden, she won two gold medals in the Women's 100 m and Women 4 × 100 m Relay and two silver medals in the Women's 200 m and Women's Long Jump.[2] At the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap in Madrid, Spain, she won a bronze medal in the Women's Long Jump [3] At the 1994 IPC Athletics World Championships in Berlin, Germany, she won a gold medal in the Women Long Jump T20 and a bronze medal in the Women's 200 m T20.[1]

In 2010, she was recognized for her 20 years employment with Endeavour Foundation Industries in Gladstone.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Racquel Nugent". Athletics Australia Historical Results. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "Sport results and detail". Canberra Times. 13 July 1989. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "Madrid 1992 Paralympic Medallists". paralympicanorak. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "Worker celebrates 35 years". Gladstone Observer. 18 November 2010. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
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