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Elizabeth Lee "Beth" Heiden-Reid (born September 27, 1959 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American athlete who excelled in speed skating, cross-country skiing and bicycle racing.

In 1979, she won four World Speed Skating Championships at distances from 500 meters to 3,000 meters and also won the World Overall Speed Skating Championship. In the 1980 Winter Olympic Games, she won a bronze medal in the 3,000 meter speed skating race.

After the Olympics, while a student at the University of Vermont (UVM), she was the NCAA Women's National Champion in cross country skiing in 1983 and an All-American in the same sport. She graduated from the University in 1983 and was inducted into the UVM Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003.

In the sport of cycle racing, which she originally took up as a form of cross training, Heiden won both the U.S. Road Race Championship and the World Road Race Championships.

She is a member of both the Speed Skating and Bicycling Hall of Fame.

Her brother is five-time Olympic gold medalist Eric Heiden.

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