Australian Paralympic swimmer and cyclist
Amanda Reid OAM Amanda Fowler ;[ 1] Australia at the2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming.[ 2] [ 3] [ 4] 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics , she won a silver medal in the Women's 500 m Time Trial C1–3[ 5] [ 6] 2020 Tokyo Paralympics a gold medal in the500 m Time Trial C1–3 .[ 7] 2024 Paris Paralympics , she won a gold medal in the 500 m Time Trial C1–3 (defending her gold medal in Tokyo).[ 8]
In 2023, she won a gold medal at the 2023World Para Snowboard Championships .
Personal Reid was born on 12 November 1996 withspastic quadriplegia and anintellectual disability .[ 1] [ 4] [ 9] Blue Mountains town ofBlaxland in New South Wales.[ 10] [ 11] Wemba-Wemba andGuringai people.[ 12] Blaxland High School andEndeavour Sports High School .[ 13] [ 14]
Career
Speed skating At around the age of nine she won national titles in able-bodiedshort-track speed skating competitions, becoming the first person to win Australian, New Zealand, and all-Australian state titles for her age in one year.[ 15] [ 16]
Swimming Fowler swimming at the 2011 Oceania Paralympic Championships Reid (who competed as Amanda Fowler) was anS14 classified swimmer.[ 4] S8 swimmer for the 2015 New South Wales Multi-Class Championships.[ 17] [ 18] [ 19] [ 11] [ 20] Global Games as a fourteen-year-old.[ 21] Australia at the2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming[ 4] [ 18]
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 the2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships inMontichiari , Italy.[ 22]
At the2016 Summer Paralympics , she won a silver medal in the Women's 500 m Time Trial C1–3.[ 6] [ 6]
In 2016, she was aNew South Wales Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[ 23]
At the2017 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.[ 24]
At the2018 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships inRio de Janeiro , she won the silver medal in the Women's 500 m Time Trial C2.[ 25]
At the2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships inApeldoorn , 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.[ 26] [ 27]
At the2020 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships inMilton, Ontario , she won two gold medals – Women's Time Trial C2 and Women's Omnium C2.[ 28]
Reid won her first Paralympic gold medal in theWomen's 500 m Time Trial C1-3 at the2020 Tokyo Paralympics in a world record time of 35.581.[ 29] Mixed team sprint C1-5 together withMeg Lemon andGordon Allan . The team came ninth.[ 30]
At the2022 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships inBaie-Comeau , Reid finished fourth in The Women's Time Trial C2 and did not finish the Women's Road Race C2.[ 31]
At the2022 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships inSaint-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.[ 32] 2023 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships inGlasgow , 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.[ 33] [ 34] [ 35] [ 36]
At the2024 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.[ 37] [ 38]
At the2024 Paris Paralympics , she won a gold medal in the 500 m Time Trial C1–3 (defending her gold medal in Tokyo) with a facgtored time of 36.676 seconds.[ 8]
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 2023World Para Snowboard Championships held atLa Molina .[ 39] [ 40]
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] 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".[ 41]
Recognition
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