Hot shot Enoch bows out of Olympics at 59

Enoch Jenkins, from the Rhondda, finished 14th in the Men’s Trap event at the Olympic Games in Helsinki on Saturday, 26 July, 1952. It was the 59-year-old marksman’s third Olympic Games having competed in 1920 in Antwerp and 1924 in Paris. There were no Olympic shooting events held in Amsterdam in 1928, mainly because of controversies related to the amateur rules for shooters that year. These problems were resolved for the Los Angeles Games in 1932, but in a way that left out many top shooters. The amateur rules were interpreted so strictly that many shooters could not compete at the Olympics – and there were only two events. That increased to three in 1936 and four in 1948. In 1933 he became the first winner of the British clay pigeon title at Gleneagles.