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

Amanda Reid OAM (formerly Amanda Fowler;[1] 12 November 1996) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer, cyclist and snowboarder. 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.

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

References

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  2. ↑ "Amanda Fowler". London 2012 Paralympics. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 11 September 2012.
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  4. 1 2 3 4 "Amanda Fowler". paralympic.org.au. Australian Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 4 July 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
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  14. 1 2 "Scholarships – Amanda Reid". Sport Australia Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 9 August 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
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