Hugh Jones (athlete)

Hugh Jones ( born 1 November 1955 in London ) is an English former long-distance runner, who had his greatest success in the marathon.

In 1981 he was third in the New York City Marathon. The following year he was second in the first Tokyo International Women's Marathon and then celebrated his greatest triumph when he won the second edition of the London Marathon in 2:09:24. With this personal best he missed the British record by just 12 seconds. In the same year he won the Paderborn Easter Run over 25 km.

In 1983, he presented at the Stockholm Marathon with 2:11:37 valid to this day course record and finished second at the Chicago Marathon. In 1986 he was second and third in 1987 and 1988, fourth in London.

Also for international championships, he was successful in the marathon. At the first World Athletics Championships 1983 in Helsinki he finished eighth at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and at the Twelfth European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart as well as at the World Cup 1987 in Rome fifth.

His last major success was his second victory at the Stockholm Marathon 1992. At this time he had already begun to be a journalist. He also was trained to track surveyor, giving him zugutekam when in 1996 he became Secretary General of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races ( AIMS). In this post he still holds today, he made ​​a major contribution that the International Association of Athletics Federations ( IAAF) and its national member associations took developed by the AIMS standards of distance measurement. In 2003, he personally supervised the final measurement of the new route of the Berlin Marathon.

Hugh Jones lives in London with his wife and four children. In 2004, he last won a marathon ( total 24 ), the Sahara Marathon in the Algerian province of Tindouf.