Name Racquel Nugent | ||
Racquel Nugent (born 1968) 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. At the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap in Madrid, Spain, she won a bronze medal in the Women's Long Jump 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.
In 2010, she was recognized for her 20 years employment with Endeavour Foundation Industries in Gladstone.