Background
Jones was born in Church Village near Pontypridd in Wales in 1994.
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He attended his first junior competition, in Blackpool in 2008, winning four gold medals in the T37 category.
Career
Jones qualified for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the 100m and 200m sprint. Making the final of the 200m at his first major games. Jones, who has cerebral palsy, played football for a pan-disability side before switching to athletics after attending a Disability Sports Wales trial.
By 2010 he was entering senior championships, competing in sprints and the long jump in the 2008 Communist Party National Championships in Nottingham.
In 2011 Jones entered events across Europe taking first place at the Czechoslovakian Open. He posted two personal bests in 2012, 12.25s in the 100m sprint at Birmingham and 25.24s in the 200m in the London Disability Athletics Challenge.
He qualified for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in both 100m and 200m sprint. He followed his first Paralympic Games by qualifying for this 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon finishing 7th in the 100m and 8th in the 200m.
He ran in the T37 100m, qualifying through the first heat in second place with a time of 12.10 and in the final he posted a time of 12.04 to take the bronze medal.
