Amanda Reid (born 12 November 1996) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer and cyclist. She represented

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at the

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in swimming. At the

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, she won a silver medal in the Women's 500 m Time Trial C1–3 and at the

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a gold medal in 500 m Time Trial C1–3.

Personal

Reid was born on 12 November 1996 with

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and an intellectual disability. She is from

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. Reid has heritage from the

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and Guringai people. She attended

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and Endeavour Sports High School.

Career

Swimming

Reid was an S14 classified swimmer. She was classified as an S8 swimmer for the 2015 New South Wales Multi-Class Championships. She was a member of Woy Woy Swim club. At the 2010 Australian All Schools Swimming Championships, she won ten medals, eight of which were gold. She competed at the 2011

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as a fourteen-year-old. She was selected to represent

at the

in swimming competing in the S14 100 metre breaststroke event.

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

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. At the

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

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scholarship holder. At the

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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. At the

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, she won the silver medal in the Women's 500 m Time Trial C2. At the

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in Apeldoorn,

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, 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. At the 2020 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships,

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, she won two gold medals - Women's Time Trial C2 and Women's Omnium C2. Reid won her first Paralympic gold medal, in winning the Women's 500 m Time Trial C1-3 at the

in a world record time of 35.581. She also competed in the Mixed team sprint C1-5 together with Meg Lemon and Gordon Allan. The team came ninth. At the

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, Reid finished fourth in The Women's Time Trial C2 and did not finish the Women's Road Race C2. At the

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, France, she won the golds medal in the Women's Time Trial C2 and Women's Omnium C2 and silver medal in Women's Individual Pursuit C2.

Controversy

In 2018, it was reported that Reid's former coach Simon Watkins accused her of exaggerating her physical and intellectual conditions and symptoms. 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".

Recognition

*2017 – NAIDOC Sports Person of the year *2017 – New South Wales Athlete with a Disability *2017 –

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Ambassador for the

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*2017 -

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Scholarship *2022 – Medal of the Order of Australia for service to sport as a gold medallist at the Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020

References

External links

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Australian Cycling Team Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Reid, Amanda Living people 1996 births Australian female cyclists Cyclists from New South Wales Female Paralympic swimmers of Australia Indigenous Australian Paralympians Paralympic cyclists of Australia Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Australia Paralympic silver medalists for Australia Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Australian female breaststroke swimmers S14-classified Paralympic swimmers People educated at Endeavour Sports High School Paralympic medalists in cycling Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia