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| Full name | Louise Christine Jones | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1963-06-08)8 June 1963 (age 62) Chatham, England | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Track & Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider Commissaire | ||||||||||||||
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| 1999–2000 | GS Strada | ||||||||||||||
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Louise Jones (born 8 June 1963 inChatham,Kent,England[1]) is aWelsh former racing cyclist. Lived in Port Talbot, Wales while competing, now resides in Brisbane.
Jones won the first gold medal for women in cycling at theCommonwealth Games, when women's cycling was introduced inAuckland,New Zealand in 1990.[2] She finished fourth in the1998 Commonwealth Games road race inKuala Lumpur,Malaysia in 1998. She also represented Britain in theUCI Road World Championships in 1991 and the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and the1992 Olympic Games inBarcelona,Spain.[3]
Jones retired in 2000 and has worked as acommissaire for theUCI. She had been a commissaire at national level since 1994.[4]
In addition to her international success she was a 10 timesBritish track champion, winning theBritish National Individual Sprint Championships from 1986 until 1990, theBritish National Individual Time Trial Championships in 1990 and 1991 and theBritish National Points Championships in 1989.[5]
Jones took time out from competing between 1994 and 1997 to have children with her husband Phil, a cyclist and plumber. The family moved to Brisbane,Australia in 2007 after Jones acted as a commissaire at the2006 Commonwealth Games inMelbourne. Jones is the mother of racing cyclistHayley Jones.[6]
Sprint,Commonwealth Games
