A London-based lightweight freestyle wrestler, Reg Edwards was runner-up to George MacKenzie in the final Olympic trial for the 1928 Amsterdam Games. Edwards was a reserve in Amsterdam while MacKenzie made his fifth consecutive appearance. The following year Edwards won the lightweight bronze medal at the European Freestyle Championships in Paris. He was Britain’s only medallist of the championships. Also in 1929, Edwards won the first of two consecutive national titles when he beat Ashdown club team-mate E. Metcalfe in the lightweight final. He beat another team-mate, H. Stone, in the final to retain his title in 1930
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