Keri Jones
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| Full name | William Keri Jones | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 January 1945 Neath, Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg (11 st 7 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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William Keri Jones (born 13 January 1945)[2] is a Welsh dual-code international rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for Wales, and at club level for Cardiff RFC, as a Wing and representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain, and at club level for Wigan, as a wing. He was also an accomplished track and field athlete having represented Wales at the 1966 Jamaica Commonwealth Games.
Background
[edit | edit source]Keri Jones was born in Neath, Wales.
Athletics
[edit | edit source]Jones was a member of the athletics team belonging to the City of Cardiff Training College.[3] He competed for Wales in the 220 yards at the Birmingham Games as a warm-up event to the Commonwealth Games.[4]
He represented the 1966 Welsh team[5] at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, participating in three events;[6] the 100 yards, the 220 yards and the 4 × 110 yards relay with Terry Davies, Lynn Davies and Ron Jones.[7]
International honours (Rugby union)
[edit | edit source]Jones won 5-caps for Wales (RU) while at Cardiff RFC. Jones was capped five times as a wing for Wales, winning all his caps in the 1967-68 season. He scored two tries for Wales.[8] Jones was selected for the 1968 British Lions tour to South Africa but did not play in any of the internationals against South Africa. He did play in the match against Rhodesia, and in five other games against regional opposition, scoring a try in the win over South Western Districts.[9]
International honours (Rugby league)
[edit | edit source]Jones won caps for Great Britain (RL) while at Wigan in the 1970 Rugby League World Cup against France, and New Zealand. [citation needed]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Statistics at wigan.rlfans.com Archived 26 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- On This Day at Scrum.com
- Keri Jones at ESPNscrum (archived)Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- 1945 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Welsh sportsmen
- Barbarian F.C. players
- British & Irish Lions rugby union players from Wales
- Cardiff Metropolitan University RFC players
- Cardiff RFC players
- Dual-code rugby internationals
- Great Britain national rugby league team players
- Neath RFC players
- Rugby league players from Neath
- Rugby league wingers
- Rugby union players from Neath
- Rugby union wings
- Wales international rugby union players
- Welsh rugby league players
- Welsh rugby union players
- Wigan Warriors players
- Welsh men sprinters
- Commonwealth Games athletes for Wales
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games