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==