Steve Jones (athlete)

Steve Jones (Stephen Henry Jones; * August 4, 1955 in Tredegar, Wales ) is a former British long-distance runner.

Ten times he stepped 1977-1987 for Wales at the World Cross Country Championships at, met three times in the top ten and won the 1984 bronze medal. Welsh champion he was nine times in cross country, twice over 5000 meters and once in the 10,000 m.

In 1983, he presented with 27:39,14 min on his best time in the 10,000 m and finished over this distance at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki twelfth place. At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, he was eighth in the 10,000 m and 1986 he won at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh over the same distance bronze. At the European Athletics Championships, he came in 1982 in Athens 10,000 m on the eighth and 1986 in Stuttgart in Marathon on the 20th Place.

In 1984, he won the Chicago Marathon and set it to 2:08:05 h on a world record in the marathon. In 1985, he won the London Marathon in 2:08:16 h and repeated his victory in Chicago, where he remained about the new world record with 2:07:13 h only a second to Carlos Lopes set up in the same year at the Rotterdam Marathon had. In 1986 he was second in the Great North Run in 1:00:59 h, the previously fastest time by a British runner at the half marathon distance. This one, however, because of the slope of the line is not a record.

In 1988 he won the New York City Marathon. In a marathon, the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart in 1993, he was Thirteenth.

Steve Jones now lives in Boulder ( Colorado).

Bests

  • 3000 m: 7:49,80 min, July 13, 1984, London
  • 5000 m: 13:18,6 min, June 10, 1982, Lisbon
  • 10,000 m: 27:39,14 min, July 9, 1983, Oslo
  • 10 - km road race: 27:59 min, April 28, 1984 Birmingham
  • 15 km: 43:07 min, February 11, 1989, Tampa
  • Half Marathon: 1:01:14 h, August 11, 1985, Birmingham
  • Marathon: 2:07:13 h, October 20, 1985, Chicago (current British record, as of 2009 )
Long-distance running Cross country running 5000 metres 1983 World Championships in Athletics 1986 Commonwealth Games 1982 European Athletics Championships 1986 European Athletics Championships Chicago-Marathon London-Marathon Rotterdam-Marathon New-York-City-Marathon 1993 World Championships in Athletics Boulder (Colorado) 3000 metres Tampa, Florida
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