 At the time of his death he was still the SA record holder in the 400m with a time of 45.01 seconds, which he set on 15 April 1983 at the South African senior championships in front of his home crowd in Bloemfontein.The record at that stage was 45.5 seconds, which was held by Malcolm Spence, Spence set the record in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome by earning 3rd place.Reinach's 16 year old 400m record was only broken in March 1999 by the 400m athlete Arnaud Malherbe.