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Racquel Nugent (born 1968) [1] from Gladstone, Queensland is an Australian athlete with an intellectual disability. At the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap, she won a bronze medal.
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Racquel Nugent (born 1968) [1] from Gladstone, Queensland is an Australian athlete with an intellectual disability. At the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap, she won a bronze medal.
Competing at the 1st World Games for Athletes with an Intellectual Disability in Härnösand, 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's Long Jump T20 and a bronze medal in the Women's 200 m T20. [1]
In 2010, she was recognized for her 25 years employment with Endeavour Foundation Industries in Gladstone. [4]
By July 2019, Nugent had worked at the Endeavour Foundation in Gladstone for 34 years. She worked in the document destruction plant. [5]
Nugent's community involvement included volunteering for the Tannum Sands Seagulls Football Club. She helped in the canteen, refereed, and managed the women's team.[ citation needed ]
In 2019, Nugent was the third Gladstone resident selected to take part in the Great Endeavour Rally, in its 34-year history. This Queensland 3700 km motoring event raises money for charity while increasing awareness of disability. Nugent traveled to Bundaberg to join the team which stayed overnight in Theodore, Jericho, Kynuna, the Burke and Wills Roadhouse, Karumba, Einasleigh, Cardwell, and Townsville. [6]
Australia competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. It was Australia's 12th year of participation at the Paralympics. The team included 151 athletes. Australian competitors won 101 medals to finish fifth in the gold medal table and second on the total medal table. Australia competed in 12 sports and won medals in 8 sports. The Chef de Mission was Paul Bird. The Australian team was smaller than the Sydney Games due to a strict selection policy related to the athletes' potential to win a medal and the International Paralympic Committee's decision to remove events for athletes with an intellectual disability from the Games due to issues of cheating at the Sydney Games. This was due to a cheating scandal with the Spanish intellectually disabled basketball team in the 2000 Summer Paralympics where it was later discovered that only two players actually had intellectual disabilities. The IPC decision resulted in leading Australian athletes such as Siobhan Paton and Lisa Llorens not being able to defend their Paralympic titles. The 2000 summer paralympic games hosted in Sydney Australia proved to be a milestone for the Australian team as they finished first on the medal tally for the first time in history. In comparing Australia's 2000 Paralympic performance and their 2004 performance, it is suggested that having a home advantage might affect performance.
Australia competed at the 1992 Paralympic Games in Barcelona for physically and vision-impaired athletes. Immediately after the Barcelona Games, the city of Madrid held events for athletes with an intellectual disability. The Madrid results are not included in International Paralympic Committee Historical Results Database. Australia finished 7th in the total medal count winning 76 medals. Australia competed in 13 sports and won medals in 3 sports – swimming, athletics and weightlifting. Australia finished first in the medal tally at the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap in Madrid.
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