Amanda Reid

Hailing from the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Amanda Reid started as a talented short-track speed skater, but her first Paralympic appearance was in swimming at London 2012.

After switching to cycling, Reid won her first international medal at the 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in the C2 500m Time Trial.

She followed up with her second Paralympic appearance – albeit in a different sport – taking silver in the C1–3 500m Time Trial at Rio 2016.

From then on, Reid – who has cerebral palsy – made the C2 500m Time Trial her own. She has won the world championship in that event three times (in 2017, 2019 and 2020), alongside world titles the C2 3,000m Individual Pursuit (2017) and the C2 Scratch Race (2020).

In 2021, she confirmed her dominance of her pet event by becoming Paralympic champion in the C1–3 500m Time Trial at Tokyo 2020, lowering the world record to 38.487 seconds. That made the proud Wemba Wemba and Guring-gai woman the first Indigenous Australian to win a Paralympic gold medal in cycling.

Reid finished fourth in the Women's Time Trial C2 at the 2022 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Canada before breaking out with a remarkable performance at the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in France later that year.

At the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome, Reid would claim the rainbow jersey in the Women's Time Trial C2, Women's Omnium C2, and Women's Scratch Race C2. A fourth gold medal eluded her, with a silver medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C2.

More gold followed in the velodrome in 2023, with gold medals in the 500 m Time Trial C2 and the Omnium C2 at the 2023 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Glasgow, complemented by a silver in the Scratch Race C2, and bronze in the Women's Individual Pursuit C2.

In 2022, Reid was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to sport as a gold medallist at the Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020, and the following year she won the Sir Hubert Opperman Trophy and Oppy Medal as AusCycling Cyclist of the Year.

In 2024, Reid won her fifth straight rainbow jersey in the 500m time trial C2 at the 2024 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, along with another the scratch race C1–C2 crown.

Reid is also a world champion in para-snowboarding, having won the Women's Snowboard Cross SB-LL1 at the 2023 World Para Snowboard Championships held at La Molina, where she also took bronze in the Women's Snowboard Dual Banked SB-LL1.

In her spare time, the St George Cycling Club member mentors Indigenous children and people with disabilities.