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| Full name | Louise Christine Jones | |||||||||||||
| Born | 8 June 1963 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 in Chatham, Kent, England [1] ) is a Welsh 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 the Commonwealth Games, when women's cycling was introduced in Auckland, New Zealand in 1990. [2] She finished fourth in the 1998 Commonwealth Games road race in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1998. She also represented Britain in the UCI Road World Championships in 1991 and the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. [3]
Jones retired in 2000 and has worked as a commissaire for the UCI. She had been a commissaire at national level since 1994. [4]
In addition to her international success she was a 10 times British track champion, winning the British National Individual Sprint Championships from 1986 until 1990, the British National Individual Time Trial Championships in 1990 and 1991 and the British 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 the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. Jones is the mother of racing cyclist Hayley Jones. [6]
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