Katie Reid

Katie Reid will be making her Olympic debut in Tokyo and 26-year-old will blaze a trail for the sport when she takes to the Sea Forest Waterway to race in the C1 women’s 200m event which too is featuring for the first time at an Olympic Games.

Katie first joined canoeing through the Girls4Gold programme in 2014, a campaign set up through UK Sport and EIS to uncover talented, female athletes with the aim of representing TeamGB at the Olympic Games. 

Katie has had a strong start to the 2021 season, coming third in the European Olympic Qualifier, and also has a bronze medal to her name after coming third in the 2018 World Cup in Duisburg.

She continued the year with consistently good results finishing 8th in the C1 200m at the European Championships in Belgrade.  Katie also competed at the World Championships at Montemor O Velho in 2018, finishing 12th in the C1 500m and 16th in the C1 200m.

Just over a year into the Girls4Gold training programme, Katie was selected to compete in the U23 World Championships in Portugal where she finished 10th in the Women's C1 200m.  She has continued to progress and at the 2017 U23 World Championships finished 7th. In 2016 she won her first World Cup series medal in Duisburg taking bronze.

Katie was an accomplished Scottish karate champion before transitioning to Canoeing. Having been selected for the Girls4Gold programme in 2014, Katie is now living in Nottingham and training full time with the long term aim of selection for Tokyo 2020.