Tom Reed

Thomas David Reed (born 29 January 1986) is a British judoka.

Judo career He began his training at Devizes judo club before joining Team Bath's High-Performance Training Programme in 2003, aged 16. In 2006, following a gap year, in which he trained at Tokai University in Japan, he began a degree in Business Administration at the University of Bath.

He followed this up in 2007 with a silver at the European under 23 Judo Championships in Salzburg and became champion of Great Britain, winning the half-middleweight division at the British Judo Championships.

He competed for England in the men's 81 kg event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won a silver medal, losing to fellow England international Owen Livesey.

His efforts to qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games were thwarted by a major elbow injury. In an interview, Reed stated that his elbow was "getting arthritic and bone fragments had moved into muscle areas". In a December 2015 interview with the BBC, Reed stated that though the required surgery was expected to be relatively straight forward and the recovery was only expected to take six weeks, he was still unsure when it would take place. "The big question is when I get that surgery. I'm on a waiting list and have been waiting six months. Now it looks like after Christmas. That will only get me three or four tournaments left in the Olympic qualification [period]."