Jade Jones-Hall (born 4 January 1996), known previously as Jade Jones, is an English

wheelchair racer Wheelchair racing is the racing of wheelchairs in track and road races. Wheelchair racing is open to athletes with any qualifying type of disability, amputees, spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy and partially sighted (when combined with another ...

, competing in T54 events, and a paratriathlete competing in handbike-to-wheelchair classifications. Jones competed in the

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in the 400m, 800m and 1500m. In 2018, she won the gold medal in Paratriathlon at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Personal history

Jones was born in

Middlesbrough Middlesbrough ( ) is a town on the southern bank of the River Tees in North Yorkshire, England. It is near the North York Moors national park. It is the namesake and main town of its local borough council area. Until the early 1800s, the a ...

, England in 1996. She was born with a missing

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. Jones is a former pupil of Ormesby School in Middlesbrough and Prior Pursglove College in Guisborough, and began studying law at the

University of Teesside , mottoeng = Deeds Not Words , established = 1930 – Constantine Technical College1969 – as Teesside Polytechnic 1992 – gained university status , type = Public , endowment = £0.23 m (2019/20) , chancellor ...

in September 2014.

Athletic career

Jones was invited by wheelchair athlete,

Tanni Grey-Thompson Carys Davina Grey-Thompson, Baroness Grey-Thompson, (born 26 July 1969), known as Tanni Grey-Thompson, is a Welsh politician, television presenter and former wheelchair racer. Athletic career Grey-Thompson's Paralympic career started in the 1 ...

and her husband (and personal coach) Ian Thompson, to try out a racing chair during a school sports day visit. Within a few weeks Jones was training under Grey-Thompson and began entering competitive sport meets in 2009. Competing in sprint racing and long-distance events, Jones trained with the New Markse club. In 2011, she competed in the

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in New Zealand. She finished 5th in T54 200m race. Jones recorded personal bests in the 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m in 2012, and qualified in all three events for the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Jones failed to qualify for the finals in both the 400 m and 800 m, finishing sixth and fifth respectively. In the 1500 m she qualified through finishing 5th in the preliminary heat, but failed to medal, coming last in the finals three seconds behind the winner Tatyana McFadden of the United States. In September 2012 Jones entered the

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. Competing in the Junior Wheelchair event, she won the Tyne Tunnel 2k race in 4 minutes 12 seconds. In 2013, Jones qualified for the

in Lyon. She raced in the T54 classification distance races, reaching the finals of the

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, 800 m,

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and 5000 m. Her best finish was fourth in the 400 m. In 2014 Jones won her first major international medals, whilst representing Great Britain at the IPC European Championships in Swansea. She took silver in the 800m along with a bronze in the 5,000m. Jones completed the year by winning a silver in the T54 women's race at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. In July 2016 it was announced that Jones had been selected for her second Paralympics, in Rio. In 2018 at the British Commonwealth Games, hosted at Gold Coast Australia, she was the commonwealth champion in the paratrialthon, finishing in a time of 1 hour 11 minutes and 7 seconds.

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Jade Jones-Hall
at the British Triathlon Federation * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Jade 1996 births Living people Sportspeople from Middlesbrough English female wheelchair racers English people with disabilities Sportswomen with disabilities Track and field athletes with disabilities Paralympic wheelchair racers Paralympic athletes of Great Britain Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Triathletes at the 2018 Commonwealth Games