Alana Reid

Alana Reid

Personal information
Nationality	Jamaican
Born	(2005-01-20) 20 January 2005
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	60 metres, 100 m, 200 m
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	60 m: 7.29 (Kingston 2022) 100 m: 10.92 NU20R (Kingston 2023) 200 m: 22.95 (Cali 2022)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing Jamaica World U20 Championships Gold medal – first place 2024 Lima 100 m Gold medal – first place 2024 Lima 4×100 m relay Bronze medal – third place 2022 Cali 200 m Junior Pan American Games Gold medal – first place 2025 Asunción 4×100 m relay Pan American U20 Championships Gold medal – first place 2023 Mayagüez 100 m Silver medal – second place 2023 Mayagüez 4×100 m relay CARIFTA Games (U20) Gold medal – first place 2023 Nassau 100 m Gold medal – first place 2023 Nassau 4×100 m relay NACAC U18 Championships Gold medal – first place 2021 San José 200 m Gold medal – first place 2021 San José 4×100 m relay

Alana Reid (born 20 January 2005) is a Jamaican athlete who competes as a sprinter. At the age of 17, while attending Hydel High School, she won the bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 2022 World Under-20 Championships. She later won gold at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships over 100 metres.

Reid is the Jamaican junior record holder for the women's 100 metres.

Early life

Alana Reid attended Hydel High School School in Jamaica, where she trained under head coach Corey Bennett. In March 2023, she signed a letter of intent confirming she would attend the University of Oregon.

Career

As a 17-year-old, Alana Reid was a 200 metres bronze medallist at the 2022 World Under-20 Championships held in Cali, Colombia, running a personal best time of 22.95 seconds.

In March 2023 at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls Championships held at the national stadium in Kingston, she ran a personal best of 11.16 s in the 100 metres semi-final, just 0.03 s off the Veronica Campbell Brown’s championship record from 2001. In the final Reid ran 10.92 s to set a new national junior record, beating the 10.95 s set by Tina Clayton in 2022. It made her the fifth-fastest junior athlete of all time, behind only Katrin Krabbe (10.89), Marlies Oelsner (10.88), and the United States' Tamari Davis (10.83) and Sha'Carri Richardson (10.75). It also placed her eleventh on the Jamaican all-time list. Prior to the race, Reid had predicted to her coach Corey Bennett that she would run sub 11-seconds.

In April 2024, she was selected as part of the Jamaican team for the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas.

She competed in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2024 Paris Olympics as part of the Jamaican team that placed fifth overall. She then won gold in the 100 metres at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru in August 2024. She also won gold in the 4 × 100 m relay at the Championships.

On 24 April 2025, she was named in the Jamaican team for the 2025 World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou, China in May 2025.

In June 2025, Reid was named as an ambassador for the 2025 Junior Pan Am Games to be held in Paraguay.

Personal life

Reid is the daughter of Karen Chisholm and Jamaican former football international Garfield Reid.

Statistics

Grand Slam Track results References External links Alana Reid at World Athletics