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JACKIE NARRACOTT

Sport: Skeleton
DOB: 05/11/1990

OWIA Athlete Performance Contract Commenced: 2018
Institute/Academy: Queensland Academy of Sport

​Personal Best Results: 
Olympic Winter Games - 2nd, Beijing, CHN
World Championships - 11th, St Moritz, SUI, 2023
World Cup -  1st, St Moritz, SUI, 2022

Note: current as @ 30/06/2022

Olympic Winter Games Attended
  • 2018 - PyeongChang, Korea
  • 2022 - Beijing, China

BIOGRAPHY

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Jackie Narracott’s Olympic dream came from stories about her uncle Paul Narracott who was the first Australian to compete at both a Summer and Winter Olympic Games. He ran in the men’s 100m and 200m at the Los Angeles Games in 1984 before participating in the two-man bobsleigh at Albertville 1992.

34 years after her uncle’s debut, Narracott made her own Olympic dreams come true as she represented Australia in the women's skeleton event where she finished in 17th place. Narracott showed incredible consistency at the 2018 Games with run times of 52.53, 52.76, 52.62 and 52.82 down the Alpensia Sliding Centre. The gold medal was claimed by Great Britain’s Lizzy Yarnold, Germany’s Jacqueline Loelling claimed silver while GB’s came in third.

The Queenslander has a strong athletics background; favouring the 100m, 200m, long jump and triple jump. She originally thought her Olympic dream would be fulfilled at the Summer Games, however she joined the Australian bobsleigh squad in Europe in 2011 where she met the national skeleton coaches who convinced her to make the switch.

Narracott took her first ride on a skeleton sled in 2012, she made her skeleton World Cup debut at the end of 2014 and her best result has been a 7th place finish at the Lake Placid World Cup in January 2016. Narracott has had several top-10 finishes at North American Cup events, including winning silver in Calgary in November 2016.

At the 2017 World Championships in Königssee, Germany, Narracott placed 17th followed by a 15th place finish at the Olympic Test Event and World Cup event in PyeongChang in March 2017. January 2018 saw Narracott record her best result in two years, finishing 7th at the St Moritz World Cup just weeks out from her Olympic debut.
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The highlight of Narracott's 2018-2019 season was a top-10 finish at the Winterberg World Cup, before her season was cut short after competing in Innsbruck.

Narracott made a successful return to sport in 2019-2020, highlighted by a ninth place World Cup finish in Lake Placid, USA.

In a COVID impacted year, Narracott focused on training, basing herself for the international season at the 2018 Olympic Region in Korea. Before she headed to Korea, Narracott did compete in one World Cup event, performing well to finish in eighth place.

At the St Moritz World Cup in January 2022, Narracott created history to become the first Australian to win a World Cup gold medal in skeleton.

The breakthrough win smashes Narracott’s previous personal best World Cup finish of seventh place, which she achieved in Lake Placid, USA, in 2016, and will no doubt give Narracott plenty of confidence ahead of her second Olympic Winter Games in Beijing.

Competing on the spectacular hand cut ice on the natural St Moritz track, the 2018 Olympian had an amazing first run breaking the track record with a time of 1:08.72 seconds to shock the field.
 
In the final run, Narracott put down another amazing performance with the second fastest run of the round to cross the line in first place with a two run combined time of 2:17.56 seconds, 0.06 seconds ahead of second place finisher and new World Cup champion Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands

At her second Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, Narracott made sporting history, thanks to an incredible silver-medal performance to records Australia's first ever sliding sport medal at an Olympic Games.

Narracott showed nerves of steel over the two days of competition to make Australia proud in a performance for the ages.

Q & A

Proudest moment: standing on the block at the Olympics for the first time
 
I began my sport in March 2012 
 
When I am not training or competing I am: drinking coffee, working or somewhere in the sun 
 
I enjoy my sport because I get to go faster than I can legally drive a car. The adrenaline rush when it goes well is amazing!
 
Education: Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science at University of Qld
 
Favourite international competition/track: St Moritz coz it's the only natural track in the world and Whistler coz it feels like home 
 
Favourite Food: Italian
 
Favourite Music: Classic rock
 
Favourite other sport to watch or play: to watch: AFL, athletics, the Olympics; to play: athletics, beach volleyball
 
Childhood Ambition: to be an Olympic Champion 
 
My Hero is. I don't really have one but my inspiration is definitely my Uncle Paul
 
Sponsors:  Qld Academy of Sport, Rocktape
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