Enoch Jenkins

Enoch Jenkins was a Welsh sports shooter who represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games during the early and mid-20th century.

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Born in November 1892, Enoch Jenkins was one of six sons of Elias and Hannah Jenkins, and also had a sister, Edith. The family lived at Hendy Isaf (also known locally as Hendy Isha) in Miskin and Enoch was born at home. In the 1920s Enoch moved to Essex where he later married Florence Brooks in April 1928, living out the rest of his life there till January 1984.

Enoch Jenkins was one of Wales’s and Britain’s most successful early 20th-century sports shooters with an international career spanning over three decades; a remarkable achievement in any sport. He represented Great Britain at three Olympic Games:
- 1920 (Antwerp)
- 1924 (Paris)
- 1952 (Helsinki)

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.

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