Amanda Reid

Amanda Reid
Reid at the 2011 Oceania Paralympic Championships
Personal information
Full name Amanda Reid
Nationality  Australia
Born (1996-11-12) 12 November 1996
Blaxland, New South Wales, Australia
Sport
Sport Swimming
Classifications S14, SB14, SM14 and S8 (Swimming); C2 (Cycling)

Amanda Reid (born 12 November 1996) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer and cyclist. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming.[1][2] At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, she won a silver medal in the Women's 500 m Time Trial C1–3.[3][4]

Personal

Reid was born on 12 November 1996 with spastic quadriplegia and an intellectual disability.[2][5] She is from Blaxland, New South Wales.[6][7] Reid has heritage from the Wemba-Wemba and Guringai people. [8] She attended Blaxland High School and Endeavour Sports High School.[9][10]

Career

Swimming

Reid was an S14 classified swimmer.[2] She was classified as an S8 swimmer for the 2015 New South Wales Multi-Class Championships.[11] She was a member of Woy Woy Swim club.[12][13] At the 2010 Australian All Schools Swimming Championships, she won ten medals,[7] eight of which were gold.[14] She competed at the 2011 Global Games as a fourteen-year-old.[15] She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming[2] competing in the S14 100 metre breaststroke event.[12]

Cycling

After the 2012 London Paralympics, she 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.[16]

At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, she won a silver medal in the Women's 500 m Time Trial C1–3.[4] Her other results were 11th in both the Women's Road Time trial C1–3 and Women's Road Race C1-3.[4]

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.[17]

At the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she won the silver medal in the Women's 500 m Time Trial C2.[18]

In 2016, she is a New South Wales Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[19]

Controversy

In 2018, it was reported she had been accused of exaggerating her physical and intellectual conditions and symptoms.[20]

Recognition

References

  1. ↑ Australian Paralympic Committee. Amanda Reid Biography (See "Biography" tab)
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Amanda Fowler". Australia: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2012. Archived from the original on 4 July 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
  3. ↑ Walsh, Scott (30 May 2016). "Five-time gold medallist Kieran Modra facing unusual 'first' in storied Paralympics career". Adelaide Advertiser. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 "Amanda Reid". Rio Paralympics Official site. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  5. 1 2 Rayner, Mark (26 January 2017). "Paralympic silver medallist Amanda Reid inspires Dubbo as Australia Day Ambassador". Daily Liberal. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  6. ↑ Cleggett, Michael (18 July 2012). "Meet our Mountains Olympians". Blue Mountains Gazette. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
  7. 1 2 Georgakopoulos, Chris (9 July 2010). "Blaxland girl eyes Paralympics". Penrith Press. Archived from the original on 31 December 2012. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
  8. 1 2 Zhou, Naaman (1 July 2017). "Naidoc awards: Dianne Ryder, Ollie George and Patty Mills among winners". The Guardian Australian Ed. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  9. ↑ Cleggett, Michael (10 July 2012). "Blaxland swimmer selected for Paralympics". The Blue Mountain Gazette. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  10. ↑ Georgakopoulos, Chris (4 March 2013). "Amanda Fowler scoops the pool Junior Sports Star awards". Penrith Press. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  11. ↑ Swimming NSW 2015 Swimming NSW MC Championships – 10/10/2015 Page 12
  12. 1 2 Brady, Justin (8 August 2012). "Leo gets set for Games". Penrith City Gazette.
  13. ↑ Brady, Justin (29 June 2011). "Pooled talent offers bright future". Penrith Star. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
  14. ↑ Brady, Justin (8 July 2010). "Swimmer breaks eight records". Penrith Star. Archived from the original on 4 March 2011. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
  15. ↑ Herbertson, Lisa (18 October 2011). "JUNIOR SPORTS STAR: Blaxland swimmer looking to London Olympics". Penrith Press. Archived from the original on 31 December 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
  16. ↑ "Tandem gold to Modra & Edwards at Para Track Worlds". Cycling Australia News. 19 March 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  17. ↑ "2017 Para-Cycling Track World Championships". Veloresults website. Archived from the original on 6 March 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  18. ↑ "10 medals for Australia at Para Track Worlds". Cycling Australia website. 26 March 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  19. ↑ "Five NSWIS Para-cyclists pedalling towards Rio". New South Wales Institute of Sport website. 31 May 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  20. ↑ "Amanda Reid: Australian Paralympian 'exaggerated symptoms'". BBC News. 18 September 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
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