Amanda Reid

Amanda Reid (formerly Amanda Fowler; 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 and at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics a gold medal in the 500 m Time Trial C1–3. In 2023, she won a gold medal at the 2023 World Para Snowboard Championships. 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. She attended Blaxland High School and Endeavour Sports High School. 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.