Amanda Fraser (born 10 November 1981 in Emerald, Queensland) is an Australian Paralympic athlete and swimmer.
[2] Fraser was born with spastic hemiplegia, a form of cerebral palsy where one side of the body is affected.
[3] At the age of 12, she competed in the Queensland School Sports Athletics Championships and won three gold medals.
[3] In 2001, she returned to athletics, and qualified for the 2004 Summer Paralympics with a world-record discus throw of 27.95 m at the national championships.
[1] At the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, Fraser was initially awarded the bronze medal for the discus in the combined F37-38 event; however, she was given the silver medal when British athlete Rebecca Chin was disqualified on the basis that she was ineligible to compete in the cerebral palsy category.