Reg Barnett

Reginald Albert Barnett (born 15 October 1945) is a British retired cyclist who competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics. .

Biography Barnett grew up in South London and began cycling as a teenager. in the 1,000 metres match sprint, at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica.

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, he competed in the sprint event.

He was the national sprint champion on six occasions in 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972 and 1973.

In 2026, he published a memoir, Thin Glass and Thin Ice, which covered his track racing career, his later switch to road racing, taking performance-enhancing drugs, periods of depression, heavy drinking and taking cocaine.