Ron Reed Author

Ron Reed is one of Australias most experienced and acclaimed sports journalists, whose work over more than 50 years has earned numerous awards, including Sport Australias Lifetime Achievement Award and Australian Sportswriter of the Year. Now a semi-retired freelance writer, he was twice Sports Editor of the Melbourne Herald evening paper, Editor of the old Sporting Globe, and Chief Sportswriter, columnist and feature writer for the Herald Sun, Australias biggest selling daily paper. He has worked in more than 30 countries on every continent covering most of the worlds major sports events multiple times, including nine Olympic Games, seven Commonwealth Games, several editions of cyclings Tour de France and the Giro dItalia, numerous cricket tours, major tennis and golf tournaments, world championships in athletics, swimming, road and track cycling, triathlon, hockey and rowing as well as Americas Cup sailing, horse racing and all of the football codes. He is the author of the bestselling Barty about Australian tennis champion and World No. 1 Ash Barty.