Australian Paralympic swimmer and cyclist
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 Rio de Janeiro 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 , 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]
At the 2024 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, she won gold medals in the 500 m time trial C2 (her fifth win in a row in this event at the championships) and the scratch race C1–C2.[36] [37]
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 .[38] [39]
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".[40]
Recognition
References
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^ "2019 UCI Para-Cycling Track World Championships – Day 3 Report" . UCI Cycling website . 16 March 2019. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 17 March 2019 .
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^ "2023 UCI Cycling World Championships – Track & Para-Cycling Track – Women C2 Scratch Race" . Tissot Timing. Retrieved 9 August 2023 .
^ "2023 UCI Cycling World Championships – Track & Para-Cycling Track – Women C2 Individual Pursuit" . Tissot Timing. Retrieved 5 August 2023 .
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