Christopher Jones (water polo)

Christopher Jones ( born June 23, 1886 in Pontypridd, † December 18, 1937 in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan ) was a British water polo player.

Jones was a member of the Weston -Super-Mare team that won the British Water Polo Championships three times. In 1904, Jones played his first international match against Ireland, which could be won. Jones was also a successful rugby player and was active in the sport from 1910 to 1915, when he was drafted and was used in the First World War. After the war he stopped playing rugby and started again with the water ball.

At the Olympics 1920 he took with the British national team and won along with Charles Sydney Smith, Paul Radmilovic, Charles Bugbee, Noel Purcell, William Dean and William Peacock against Belgium 3-2 and won the gold medal.