[1] He competed in seven events at the 1928 Summer Olympics,[2] and was a ten-time British national champion.

[1] He began to take up gymnastics at the age of 12, at his local church club.

[4] Whitford was part of the Great Britain team that competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.

[1] His aim was to compete at the 1940 Summer Olympics in Helsinki,[9] but the games were cancelled due to World War II.

[12] Whitford later owned a shoe shop in his hometown of Swansea,[13] and died in January 1996, at the age of 87.