Robert Reynolds (fencer)
Welsh fencer
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Robert G. Reynolds (born 1944) is a former fencer from Wales, who competed at three Commonwealth Games.
Biography
Reynolds was born to a fencing family, his father was the leading Welsh fencing coach Professor Glynne S. Reynolds and his mother Jackie Reynolds was a four-times Welsh foil champion.[2] In February 1957, the family, which included three other siblings; Andrew, Valerie and Frances, all emigrated to Southern Rhodesia. At the time Robert was a Welsh junior foil champion in 1956 and eighth in the senior foil championships in 1957.[3]
The family returned to Wales and Robert was a member of the Cardiff Fencing Club and later the Salle Reynolds Fencing Club. He represented the 1962 Welsh team[4] at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia,[5] where he participated in the foil and Épée events.[6] His mother Jackie Reynolds also competed at the same Games.[7][8]
In 1966 he went to his second Commonwealth Games, competing for the 1966 Welsh team in Kingston, Jamaica[9][10] and at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh he went to his third Games. His siblings Andrew and Frances also competed at the 1966 and 1970 Games[11]