Reg Barnett

Reg Barnett
Personal information
Born (1945-10-15) 15 October 1945 (age 81)
Eltham, London, England
Height173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight66 kg (146 lb)
Cycling career
SportCycling
Amateur team
Old Kent CC
De Laune CC, London

Reginald Albert Barnett (born 15 October 1945) is a British retired cyclist who competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Biography

Barnett grew up in South London and began cycling as a teenager. He represented the England team in the 1,000 metres match sprint, at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica.

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, he competed in the sprint event.

He was the national sprint champion on six occasions in 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972 and 1973.

In 2026, he published a memoir, Thin Glass and Thin Ice, which covered his track racing career, his later switch to road racing, taking performance-enhancing drugs, periods of depression, heavy drinking and taking cocaine.

References

  1. ↑ "Reg Barnett Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  2. 1 2 Samuel, Jadzia (30 April 2026). "'I felt relief when I lost out on Olympic medal'". BBC News. Retrieved 2 May 2026.
  3. ↑ "Midland cyclists in Games team". Birmingham Daily Post. 19 May 1966. p. 28. Retrieved 11 December 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ "1966 Athletes". Team England.
  5. ↑ "Kingston, Jamaica, 1966 Team". Team England.
  6. ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 5 August 2019. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
  7. ↑ "Biographical information". Olympedia. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  8. ↑ "National Championship, Track, Sprint, Elite, Great Britain". Retrieved 8 December 2018.