Ian Manley Reed (born 13 July 1927 in Victoria) 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 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.
Currently, Ian Reed holds the American record for farthest discus throw in the 85-89 age group. He broke the record a total of five times on July 15th 2015 at the Los Gatos All-Comer Track Meet with his best throw reaching 104 feet and 1 in. Reed now plans to attempt to break the world record for farthest discus throw of his age group.