Amanda Reid

Amanda Reid OAM (formerly Amanda Fowler;[1] 12 November 1996) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer and cyclist. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming.[2][3][4] At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, she won a silver medal in the Women's 500 m Time Trial C1–3[5][6] and at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics a gold medal in the 500 m Time Trial C1–3.[7] In 2023, she won a gold medal at the 2023 World Para Snowboard Championships.

This article is about the sportsperson. For the taxonomist, see Amanda Reid (taxonomist).

Amanda Reid
OAM
Reid in 2019
Personal information
Nationality Australia
Born (1996-11-12) 12 November 1996
Blaxland, New South Wales, Australia
Sport
SportSwimming
ClassificationsS14, SB14, SM14 and S8 (Swimming); C2 (Cycling) ; SB-LL1 (Snowboarding)
ClubSt George Cycling Club
Medal record
Women's cycling
Representing  Australia
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place2020 Tokyo500 m Time Trial C1–3
Silver medal – second place2016 Rio500 m Time Trial C1–3
UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships
Silver medal – second place2016 Montichiari500 m Time Trial C2
Gold medal – first place2017 Los Angeles500 m Time Trial C2
Gold medal – first place2017 Los Angeles3 km Individual Pursuit Trial C2
Silver medal – second place2017 Los AngelesScratch Race C1–3
Silver medal – second place2018 Rio500 m Time Trial C2
Gold medal – first place2019 Apeldoorn500 m Time Trial C2
Silver medal – second place2019 ApeldoornScratch Race C1–C2
Gold medal – first place2020 Milton500 m Time Trial C2
Gold medal – first place2020 MiltonOmnium C2
Gold medal – first place2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines500 m Time Trial C2
Gold medal – first place2022 Saint-Quentin-en-YvelinesOmnium C2
Gold medal – first place2022 Saint-Quentin-en-YvelinesScratch Race C2
Silver medal – second place2022 Saint-Quentin-en-YvelinesIndividual Pursuit C2
Gold medal – first place2023 Glasgow500 m Time Trial C2
Gold medal – first place2023 GlasgowOmnium C2
Silver medal – second place2023 GlasgowScratch Race C2
Bronze medal – third place2023 GlasgowIndividual Pursuit C2
Snowboarding
World Para Snowboard Championships
Gold medal – first place2023 La MolinaSnowboard Cross SB-LL1
Bronze medal – third place2023 La MolinaSnowboard Dual Banked SB-LL1

Personal

Reid was born on 12 November 1996 with spastic quadriplegia and an intellectual disability.[1][4][8] She is from the Blue Mountains town of Blaxland in New South Wales.[9][10] She has heritage from the Wemba-Wemba and Guringai people.[11] She attended Blaxland High School and Endeavour Sports High School.[12][13]

Career

Speed skating

At around the age of nine she won national titles in able-bodied short-track speed skating competitions, becoming the first person to win Australian, New Zealand, and all-Australian state titles for her age in one year.[14][15]

Swimming
Fowler swimming at the 2011 Oceania Paralympic Championships

Reid (who competed as Amanda Fowler) was an S14 classified swimmer.[4] She was classified as an S8 swimmer for the 2015 New South Wales Multi-Class Championships.[16] She was a member of Woy Woy Swim club.[17][18] At the 2010 Australian All Schools Swimming Championships, she won ten medals,[10] eight of which were gold.[19] She competed at the 2011 Global Games as a fourteen-year-old.[20] She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming[4] competing in the S14 100-metre breaststroke event.[17]

Cycling

After the 2012 London Paralympics, she changed her surname to Reid and transferred to cycling. At her first major international competition, she won a silver medal in the Women's C2 500 m Time Trial at the 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Montichiari, Italy.[21]

At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, she won a silver medal in the Women's 500 m Time Trial C1–3.[6] Her other results were 11th in both the Women's Road Time trial C1–3 and Women's Road Race C1-3.[6]

In 2016, she was a New South Wales Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[22]

At the 2017 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles, Reid won gold medals in the Women's 500 m Time Trial C2 and Women's 3 km Individual Pursuit C2 and a silver medal in the Women's Scratch Race C1–3.[23]

At the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she won the silver medal in the Women's 500 m Time Trial C2.[24]

At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, Reid won the gold medal in the Women's 500 m Time Trial C2 in a new world record time of 39.505 seconds and a silver medal in the Women's Scratch Race C1–C2.[25][26]

At the 2020 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Milton, Ontario, she won two gold medals – Women's Time Trial C2 and Women's Omnium C2.[27]

Reid won her first Paralympic gold medal in the Women's 500 m Time Trial C1-3 at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics in a world record time of 35.581.[28] She also competed in the Mixed team sprint C1-5 together with Meg Lemon and Gordon Allan. The team came ninth.[29]

At the 2022 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Baie-Comeau, Reid finished fourth in The Women's Time Trial C2 and did not finish the Women's Road Race C2.[30]

At the 2022 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, she won the gold medals in the Women's Time Trial C2, Women's Omnium C2, and Women's Scratch Race C2, along with a silver medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C2.[31] At the 2023 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, she won the gold medals in the 500 m Time Trial C2 and the Omnium C2, a silver medal in the Scratch Race C2, and a bronze medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C2.[32][33][34][35]

Snowboarding

Reid won the gold medal in the Women's Snowboard Cross SB-LL1 and the bronze medal in the Women's Snowboard Dual Banked SB-LL1 at the 2023 World Para Snowboard Championships held at La Molina.[36][37]

Controversy

In 2018, it was reported that Reid's former coach Simon Watkins accused her of exaggerating her physical and intellectual conditions and symptoms.[1] The Australian Paralympic Committee dismissed these allegations, describing them as "opinion" by a non-medical professional, saying that she had been through "rigorous assessment processes" and that it was "not uncommon to change classifications".[38]

Recognition

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