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Born | Blaxland, New South Wales, Australia | 12 November 1996|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Classifications | S14, SB14, SM14 and S8 (Swimming); C2 (Cycling) ; SB-LL1 (Snowboarding) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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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.
She has been selected for the 2024 Paris Paralympics, her fourth Games. [8]
Personal
Reid was born on 12 November 1996 with spastic quadriplegia and an intellectual disability.[1][4][9] She is from the Blue Mountains town of Blaxland in New South Wales.[10][11] She has heritage from the Wemba-Wemba and Guringai people.[12] She attended Blaxland High School and Endeavour Sports High School.[13][14]
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.[15][16]
Swimming
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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.[17] She was a member of Woy Woy Swim club.[18][19] At the 2010 Australian All Schools Swimming Championships, she won ten medals,[11] eight of which were gold.[20] She competed at the 2011 Global Games as a fourteen-year-old.[21] She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming[4] competing in the S14 100-metre breaststroke event.[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 the 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Montichiari, Italy.[22]
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.[23]
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.[24]
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.[25]
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.[26][27]
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.[28]
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.[29] She also competed in the Mixed team sprint C1-5 together with Meg Lemon and Gordon Allan. The team came ninth.[30]
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.[31]
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.[32] 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.[33][34][35][36]
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.[37][38]
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.[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] 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".[41]
Recognition
- 2017 – NAIDOC Sports Person of the year[12]
- 2017 – New South Wales Athlete with a Disability
- 2017 – Australia Day Ambassador for the Dubbo Regional Council[9]
- 2017 – Sport Australia Hall of Fame Scholarship[15]
- 2022 – Medal of the Order of Australia for service to sport as a gold medallist at the Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020[42]
- 2023 – Snow Australia Paralympic Female Athlete of the Year[43]
- 2023 – National Sportsperson with a Disability of the Year at National Indigenous Sporting Awards[44]
- 2023 – AusCycling Cyclist of the Year – Sir Hubert Opperman Trophy and Oppy Medal and AusCycling Women’s Track Para-cyclist of the Year[45]
References
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Amanda Reid (formerly Fowler) won a silver medal in cycling for Australia at the Rio Games in 2016
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Paralympian Amanda Fowler
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- ^ a b Zhou, Naaman (1 July 2017). "Naidoc awards: Dianne Ryder, Ollie George and Patty Mills among winners". The Guardian Australian Ed. Archived from the original on 2 July 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
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- ^ a b "Scholarships – Amanda Reid". Sport Australia Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 9 August 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ "Gaming the Games: The scandal threatening the Paralympics". Four Corners. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 3 April 2023. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
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Kara Leo and Amanda Fowler
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- ^ "2023 UCI Cycling World Championships – Track & Para-Cycling Track – Women C2 500 m Time Trial". Tissot Timing. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
- ^ "2023 UCI Cycling World Championships – Track & Para-Cycling Track – Women C2 Omnium". Tissot Timing. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
- ^ "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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- ^ "Results — SBX W — SB-LL1 W" (PDF). 2023 World Para Snowboard Championships (FIS) website. 12 March 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 March 2023. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
- ^ "Results — Dual Banked Slalom — Ranking LL1 W" (PDF). 2023 World Para Snowboard Championships (FIS) website. 15 March 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 March 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
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External links
- Amanda Fowler at the International Paralympic Committee
- Amanda Reid at the International Paralympic Committee
- Amanda Reid at Paralympics Australia
- Amanda Reid at Cycling Australia (archived)