Reg Thomas
Wikipedia on Answers.com:
Top
Reg Thomas (athlete)
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's Athletics | ||
Competitor for  England |
||
| British Empire Games | ||
| Gold | 1930 Hamilton | 1 mile |
| Silver | 1930 Hamilton | 880 yards |
Reginald "Reg" Heber Thomas (11 January 1907 – 14 March 1946) was a Welsh athlete who competed in several Olympic and Empire Games in the 1930s, but suffered various injuries.
He was born in Pembroke and died in Brownshill.
Thomas competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics at Amsterdam, the 1930 British Empire Games (for England), and the 1932 Summer Olympics at Los Angeles. He missed the infamous 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin in Nazi Germany because of injury, and apparently did not compete in the 1934 British Empire Games for Wales, because of English objections.
In 1928 he was eliminated in the first round of the 1500 metres event. Four years later he was also eliminated in the first round of the 1500 metres competition.
At the 1930 Empire Games he won the gold medal in the 1 mile contest and the silver medal in the 880 yards event. He could not compete for Wales because Wales did not have a national athletics association at the time. Welsh track and field athletes could only compete for England in 1930 although Welsh swimmers did compete for their home nation.
He was killed when piloting an RAF Lancaster bomber in 1946; the bomber crashed into a nursing home, but he managed to avoid the town.
External links
|
||||||||
.svg){kind=small} |
This biographical article relating to English athletics is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 |
This biographical article relating to Welsh athletics is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:
Copyrights:
Wikipedia on Answers.com
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Reg Thomas (athlete).
Read more