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Amanda Reid

Amanda Reid
080511 - Amanda Fowler swimming - 3b - 2011 Oceania Paralympic Championships action photo.jpg
Reid at the 2011 Oceania Paralympic Championships
Personal information
Full name Amanda Reid
Nationality  Australia
Born (1996-11-12) 12 November 1996 (age 20)
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. At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, she won a silver medal in the Women's 500 m Time Trial C1–3.

Reid was born 12 November 1996. She is from Blaxland, New South Wales.

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 Global Games as a fourteen-year-old. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming competing in the S14 100 metre breaststroke event.

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.

At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, 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.

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.

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


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