Enoch Jenkins (sports shooter)

Enoch Jenkins
Personal information
Born(1892-11-06)6 November 1892
Pontyclun Wales
Died4 January 1984(1984-01-04) (aged 91)
Sport
SportSports shooting

Enoch Jenkins (6 November 1892 – 4 January 1984) was a Welsh sports shooter.[1] He competed for Great Britain at the 1920, 1924 and 1952 Summer Olympics.[2]

Other highlights of his career include:

- Winner of the National Rifle Association Clay-Bird Championship at Bisley and the British Open Clay Pigeon Championship at Gleneagles in 1923.

- Fourth place at the 1935 World Clay Pigeon Championships.

- Winner of the German Clay Pigeon Championships in Berlin (1936).

- Member of the Wales team that won the British Clay Pigeon Championship in 1937, where he was also the highest individual scorer.

- Recorded an extraordinary 88 consecutive hits at Bisley and, aged 55, scored 99 out of 100 in the 1948 Home Nations competition.

References

  1. ^ "Enoch Jenkins". Olympedia. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Enoch Jenkins". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2014.


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