Leon Reid won bronze in the 200 metres at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, the first international track and field medal won by a Northern Irish athlete in 28 years.
He reached the semi-finals of the 200 metres at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, finishing seventh in his semi-final.
Reid has a mother from Belfast and an English-Jamaican father, and grew up in Bristol before studying at the University of Bath. He won silver medals for Great Britain at youth and under-20 level, then competed for Northern Ireland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and transferred his allegiance to Ireland in 2018.