Background
Jones was born in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, Wales.
Jones was born in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, Wales.
She attended Flint High School leaving aged 16 to take up taekwondo full-time.
As of 2012, Jones is 1.69 metres (5 ft 7 in) tall and weighs 57 kilograms (126 lb). She competes as part of the Great Britain Taekwondo Academy, which is based in Manchester. Jones competed for Great Britain at the inaugural Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore.
She beat Vietnam"s Thanh Thao Nguyen 9–6 in the 55 kg category final to become Great Britain"s first ever gold medallist at the Games.
She was named British Broadcasting Corporation Cymru Wales Junior Sportswoman of the Year 2010. At the 2011 World Taekwondo Championships in Gyeongju, South of Korea Jones advanced to the final of the 57 kg event after beating Marlène Harnois of France in the semi-finals.
Jones was selected to compete for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women"s 57 kg weight category. In the games Jones beat Chinese Taipei"s top seed Tseng Li-Cheng in the semi-finals after having beaten Japan"s Mayu Hamada in the quarter-finals and Serbia"s Dragana Gladović in her first bout.
Jones narrowly lost 10-9 to Iranian Kimia Alizadeh at the quarter-finals stage of the 2015 World Taekwondo Championships in Russia on 17 May 2015.
The result was controversial, as the electronic scoring system crashed during the bout. She is nicknamed "The Headhunter" because she prefers to try and score points from her opponent"s head rather than their body as successful kicks to the head are awarded more points than successful kicks to the body.
Jones was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to taekwondo.