{{Short description|English squash player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox squash player | name = Phil Kenyon | image = | image_size = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|5|7|df=y}} | birth_place = Blackpool, England | death_date = | death_place = | event = Men's singles | highest_ranking = No. 4 | date_of_highest_ranking = February 1987 | titles = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's squash}} {{MedalCountry|{{GBR2}}}} {{MedalCompetition | World Team Championships}} {{MedalGold | 1979 Brisbane | Team}} {{MedalCountry|{{ENG}}}} {{MedalCompetition | European Team Championships}} {{MedalGold | 1976 Brussels | Team}} {{MedalGold | 1978 Amsterdam | Team}} {{MedalGold | 1979 Hamburg | Team}} {{MedalGold | 1982 Cardiff | Team}} {{MedalCompetition | World Amateur Championship}} {{MedalSilver| 1979 Melbourne | Singles }} }}
'''Philip Kenyon''' (born 7 May 1956) is a former English professional squash player.
== Biography == Born in Blackpool, Kenyon finished runner-up behind Jahangir Khan in the 1979 World Amateur Squash Championship held in Melbourne, Australia.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004924/19791016/014/0014 |title=Kenyon loses world final |work=Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh Edition) |date=16 October 1979 |page=14 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 May 2026}}</ref> Kenyon was part of the British team with Jonathan Leslie, Peter Verow and Andrew Dwyer that won the 1979 Men's World Team Squash Championships in Brisbane, Australia.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004848/19791029/258/0043 |title=Phil's finale |work=Daily Express |date=29 October 1979 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=27 June 2025}}</ref>
He became the English number one in 1982 and was still the England number 1 at the end of the 1985/86 season.<ref>{{cite book |last=Halpin |first=Larry |title=The Squash Rackets Association Annual 1986-87 |pages=25–31 |year=1986 |publisher=SRA Francis House |isbn=0-900698-098}}</ref>
He also represented England at the 1981, 1983 & 1985 World Team Squash Championships.<ref>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Michael|title=Guinness Book of Squash|year=1984|publisher=Guinness Superlatives Ltd|isbn=0-85112-270-1}}</ref>
Kenyon won four gold medals for the England men's national squash team at the European Squash Team Championships in 1976, 1978, 1979 and 1982.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://intersportstats.com/competition_types/292 |title=European Team Squash Championships |website=InterSportStats |access-date=6 June 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.squashinfo.com/history/100/mens/european-team-championship |title=Men's European Team Championship: Event History (53 events) |website=Squash Info |access-date=6 June 2025}}</ref>
Kenyon was four-times British national champion in 1977, 1981, 1983 and 1985.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nationalsquashchamps.net/history |title=History - British National Squash Champions 1974-2021 |website=British National Squash Championships |access-date=22 June 2025}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kenyon, Phil}} Category:English male squash players Category:1956 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Blackpool Category:20th-century English sportsmen