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| Full name | Thomas Berwyn Jones | |||||
| Born | 13 February 1940 Rhymney, Wales |
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| Died | 12 January 2007 (aged 66–67) Ross-on-Wye, England |
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| Playing information | ||||||
| Rugby union | ||||||
| Position | Wing | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1964–1967 | Rhymney RFC | |||||
| Rugby league | ||||||
| Position | Wing | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1964–1967 | Wakefield Trinity | |||||
| 1967–1969 | Bradford Northern | |||||
| 1969–1969 | St Helens | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Total | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| ≤1965–≥1965 | Commonwealth XIII | ≥1 | ||||
| 1964?–1969? | Wales | |||||
| 1964–1966 | Great Britain | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk | ||||||
| Medal record | ||
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| Competitor for United Kingdom | ||
| Men’s Athletics | ||
| European Championships | ||
| Bronze | Belgrade 1962 | 4x100 metres |
Thomas Berwyn Jones (1940 – 2007) was a Welsh sprint athlete,[1] and professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s who at representative level played rugby league for Great Britain, and Commonwealth XIII, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity, Bradford Northern, and St. Helens, playing at Wing, i.e. number 2 or 5.[2]
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Jones had a brief career in rugby union with hometown club Rhymney RFC in the South Wales Valleys, but it was in athletics that he looked set to excel until switching to rugby league.
He won the Bronze medal in the men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1962 European Championships in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, alongside Alfred Meakin, Ronald Jones, and David Jones.
He had been touted as a potential Olympian for 1968 when he was invited to try out for Wakefield Trinity in 1964. He had been a member of the Great Britain 4 x 110 yards relay team and a British record-holder (10.3 seconds) and champion over 100 metres.
Playing under the ironic alias 'Walker', he impressed for Wakefield in reserve team games against Huddersfield and Doncaster and soon took to the sport. Within nine months he was playing for Great Britain and scored on his international début against France in Perpignan.
Berwyn Jones represented Commonwealth XIII while at Wakefield Trinity in 1965 against New Zealand at Crystal Palace National Recreation Centre, London on Wednesday 18 August 1965,[3] and was selected for the 1966 tour of Australia and New Zealand but did not make the Test team due to the form of Barrow's William "Bill" Burgess and Geoffrey "Geoff" Wriglesworth of Leeds.
He moved to Bradford in 1967/68 for £3000, where he was joined by Leeds' Geoff Wrigglesworth. The pair formed a potent right wing/centre partnership. Jones scored 26 tries that season, his best haul.
He moved on again to St Helens in 1969 but scored just two tries before announcing a premature retirement.
He died in January 2007 after a battle with motor neurone disease.