Berwyn Jones

Thomas Berwyn Jones ( born February 13, 1940 in Rhymney, Caerphilly County Borough, † 12 January, 2007 Ross-on -Wye, Herefordshire ) was a Welsh- British sprinter and rugby players of both codes. The multiple British and Welsh champion and record holder in the short sprints won with British or Welsh sprint relays bronze at the European Championships and Commonwealth Games. However, Jones moved after as a professional player for Rugby League and became a national team for Great Britain.

Life

In the early 1960s Jones played for Rhymney RFC Rugby Union, but was mainly successful as a sprinter. In 1961 he won the 100m silver medal at the Universiade, was the first time the British athletics team and was the Welsh champion in the 220 ​​yards. In 1962 he became British and Welsh sprint champion and participated in two international championships of the year, in part, for Wales, to the British Empire and Commonwealth Games, for the United Kingdom in the European Championships. As a loner, he left each of the short sprint track in the semifinals, in the short season he won bronze on the other hand each. At the European Championships with Dave Jones, Ron Jones and Alf Meakin, at the Commonwealth Games with Dave England, Ron Jones and Nick Whitehead.

1963 was his best year as a track and field athlete, John was considered a potential Olympian. He was the fifth of annual global leaderboard and improved the British 100 -meter record to 10.3 seconds; on August 6 in the meet against the United States ran Jones as the final runners behind Peter Radford, Dave Jones and Ron Jones for the 4-by- 110- yards - season, which set a new world record at 40.0 seconds.

Before the start of season 1963 Jones was taken after a friendly match at Easter of the Rugby League side Wakefield Trinity Wildcats under contract, which ended his career in amateur sport athletics.

Jones began a successful rugby league career: he played from 1964 to 1966 in three appearances for the British rugby league national team and was part of the squad of the British national team for a tour to Australia and New Zealand, but only came in games against club teams and Regional selections and not the five internationals to use.

In 1967 he moved to Bradford Northern in 1969 further to St Helens before after only six years as a rugby player soon ended his sports career.

Jones was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the British Association of Athletics UK Athletics.