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Ron Jones

Ron Jones helped the British 4 x 110 yards relay squad equal a world record, he captained the British athletics team at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico and he won a medal for Wales at the Commonwealth Games. In fact, in 1962 he won two relay bronze medals at major championships at the European

Roll of Honour athletics great Ron Jones dies

Rob Cole

Ron Jones, one of Wales’ greatest athletes and the former Great Britain Olympic men’s athletics team captain in Mexico City in 1968, has died at the age of 87. One of the few Welsh athletes ever to hold a world record in athletics, he was part of the British 4 x 110 yards relay squad

Jones battles to bronze on world stage

Steve Jones won the bronze medal at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships at Meadowlands Racetrack, New Jersey, on Sunday, 25 March, 1984.It was the first individual medal won by an athlete wearing a Welsh vest in the senior men’s 12k race. England’s Tim Hutchings was second, two seconds ahead of Jones, and Portugal’s Carlos

Steve Jones

There was little to indicate that Steve Jones would become one of Wales’ only two individual world record holders in the standard Olympic events when, as a virtually unknown RAF serviceman stationed in RAF Lynham near Swindon, he finished seventh in the 1976 Welsh cross-country championships on the totally flat course set in the picturesque

Ken Jones

Ken Jones was one of Wales’s greatest all-round sportsmen. He played 44 consecutive matches on the wing for Wales between 1947-1957 to set a new cap record and equalled the then Welsh try record of 17. He toured New Zealand and Australia with with 1950 British Lions and scored the try which helped Wales to

A year to go to Tokyo and Jade Jones wants more gold

Rob Cole

The last time the Olympic Games were held in Tokyo we were still awaiting the first individual gold medal by a Welsh athlete. That was back in 1964, yet when the Games return to the Japanese capital in a year’s time we will have one athlete chasing a third successive title. Lynn Davies may have