Ian Reed

For those of a similar name, see Ian Reid.

Ian Reed

Personal information
Born	(1927-07-13) 13 July 1927
Medal record Men's Athletics Representing Australia British Empire Games 1950 Auckland Discus Throw

Ian Manley Reed (born 13 July 1927) was a discus thrower, who represented Australia at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal at the 1950 Commonwealth Games in the men's discus throw event. He was born in Victoria.

He was 25 at the time of the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. During the olympics he started the qualifying rounds ranked as #21 with the distance of his discus throw being 45.12 meters. This caused him to automatically qualify into group B, which moved his rank to #13. His next throw which took place during round one of group B, was 41.51 meters and moved his ranking to #14. However, during round two of group B was considered Reed's best marked distance which measured to 45.12 meters and ranked him at #12, therefore qualifying him into the next round. In spite of just have his best marked distance in round 3 of group B, Reed threw the discus a measured a 44.24 meters. This caused him not to place in round 3, thus taking him out of the games.

Reed's personal best ever recorded discus throw is 49.52 meters.World Masters Athletics has ranked Ian Reed world number one in his 85-89 age group for the years 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016.

Reed set a new 90-94 age bracket Masters World Record of 28.49m at the San Diego Senior Games in September 2017

References

• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ian Reed". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012.
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