Amanda Reid

Amanda Reid (formerly Fowler; and at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics a gold medal in the 500 m Time Trial C1–3. At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the 500 m Time Trial C1–3 (defending her gold medal in Tokyo).

In 2023, she won a gold medal at the 2023 World Para Snowboard Championships and competed in snowboarding at the 2026 Winter Paralympics. She became Australia's first indigenous Winter Paralympian.

Personal Reid was born on 12 November 1996 with spastic quadriplegia and an intellectual disability. She is from the Blue Mountains town of Blaxland in New South Wales. She has heritage from the Wemba-Wemba and Guringai people. In 2026, she lives in Adelaide, South Australia.

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.

Swimming

Reid (who competed as Amanda Fowler) 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, She competed at the 2011 Global Games as a fourteen-year-old. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming

At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, she won a silver medal in the Women's 500 m Time Trial C1–3.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. She also competed in the Mixed team sprint C1-5 together with Meg Lemon and Gordon Allan. The team came ninth.

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.

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. 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.

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.

At the 2024 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. At the 2026 Winter Paralympics, she fell and did not finish in the quarter-final of the Women's Snowboard Cross SB-LL1. Her injuries prevented her from competing in the Women's Snowboard Banked.

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 – Australia Day Ambassador for the Dubbo Regional Council 2022 – Medal of the Order of Australia for service to sport as a gold medallist at the Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020 2023 – Snow Australia Paralympic Female Athlete of the Year 2023 – National Sportsperson with a Disability of the Year at National Indigenous Sporting Awards 2023 – AusCycling Cyclist of the Year – Sir Hubert Opperman Trophy and Oppy Medal and AusCycling Women’s Track Para-cyclist of the Year 2024 – National Sportsperson with a Disability of the Year at National Indigenous Sporting Awards