Reg Barnett

Reg Barnett

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Full name	Reginald Arnold Barnett
Date of birth	October 15, 1945
nation	United Kingdom
discipline	Railway (short term / endurance) / road
End of career	1977
Last updated: December 6, 2018

Reginald Arnold "Reg" Barnett (born October 15, 1945 in Eltham ) is a former British cyclist and participant in the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City .

Athletic career

Reg Barnett began his athletic career as a footballer with Crystal Palace FC before switching to cycling when he was around 15 . In 1963 he competed in road races for the British junior national team.

In 1965 Barnett won the White Hope Sprint Trophy at the Herne Hill Velodrome , a prestigious sprint tournament for young British cyclists that has been held since 1948. At the Commonwealth Games in Kingston in 1966 and finished fifth in the sprint for England . At the end of 1965 he moved to the Netherlands in order to have more opportunities there and in Germany. In 1967 he had his best result at the UCI World Championships , when he made it to the quarter-finals in the sprint after several hopes and only there was eliminated from the Italian Luigi Borghetti (later third in the World Cup). In 1967 Tom Simpson offered him a contract with the Peugeot team. Barnet declined, however, because he absolutely wanted to take part in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City .

In 1967 and 1968 Barnett was the British amateur sprint champion. He started at the Olympic Games in Mexico in 1968 and was eliminated in a hope run in the round of 16. During the Olympic Games, he received another offer (this time from Guido Costa, the Italian trainer) to join the Filotex team in Italy. He also refused this. Instead, he became a professional driver for the Holdsworth-Campagnolo team in Great Britain. In 1969 and 1970 he was then British champion in the standing race . After only a year he switched to the Clive Stuart team, which he later described as a big mistake. In 1971 he was nominated by the British Association for the starts in the track sprint as well as in the road race. After the road race, however, he was so burned out that he gave up the track competitions. In 1972 and 1973 he was again national sprint champion. Then he mainly competed in domestic road races until 1977. In his races on the road, he was particularly proud of having crossed the mountains alongside a number of well-known top riders when taking part in the Tour de Suisse in 1971. In the final ranking he finished 20th. By the end of his career, he switched to other British teams several times, but could hardly live on the contractually agreed income, so that he worked in the steelworks alongside cycling and finally stopped cycling in 1977.

He started several times in six-day races without being able to place in the front field. For example at the 1973 six-day race at Wembley , where he and Trevor Bull finished last, 70 laps behind the winners.

successes

1967

• British amateur champion - sprint

1968

• British amateur champion - sprint

1969

• British Champion - Sprint

1970

• British Champion - Sprint

1971

• British Champion - Standing Race

1972

• British Champion - Sprint

1973

• British Champion - Sprint

Web links

• Reg Barnett in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Reg Barnett in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Reg Barnett - 1970's World Class Pro; "a sprinter's speed in a road rider's body". In: VeloVeritas. October 23, 2014, accessed December 7, 2018 . 
2. ↑ White Hope winners. In: bristowevents.co.uk. April 18, 2014, accessed December 7, 2018 . 
3. ^ Reginald A. Barnett. In: thecgf.com. Retrieved December 6, 2018 . 
4. ↑ 1973 Wembley. In: sixday.org.uk. Retrieved December 7, 2018 .