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<strong>PROFESSIONAL</strong> ATHLETE FIELDS<br />
WHEELCHAIR ATHLETES – WOMEN<br />
Jade Jones<br />
Country: Great Britain<br />
Age: 20<br />
Date of Birth: January 4, 1996<br />
Residence: Middlesbrough, Great Britain<br />
Personal Best: 1:59:59, London, GBR, 2014<br />
New York City Marathon History: Debut<br />
Career Highlights<br />
2016 Virgin Money London Marathon 9th 1:59:59<br />
2014 IPC Athletics European Championships 800m T54 2nd 2:04.11<br />
2014 IPC Athletics European Championships 1500m T54 3rd 13:56.66<br />
2014 Commonwealth Games 1500m T54 3rd 4:00.19<br />
2013 Reading Half Marathon 1st 1:09:11<br />
Jones is an up-and-coming athlete from the esteemed British Athletics wheelchair racing<br />
program who was invited to pick up her sport by 16-time Paralympic medalist Tanni Grey-<br />
Thompson. Within a few weeks of their meeting, Jones was training under Grey-Thompson<br />
and began entering competitive meets in 2009.<br />
She competed in three events on the track at the Rio 2016 Paralympics: the 800-, 1500-,<br />
and 5000-meter T54 races.<br />
At the London 2012 Paralympics, Jones raced in a wheelchair that was formerly used by<br />
Grey-Thompson. She competed in three distances on the track at her home Paralympics,<br />
finishing as high as 10th place in the 1500m T54 event.<br />
She starred at the 2014 IPC Athletics World Championships in Swansea, Wales, winning her<br />
first international medals, before an injury prevented her from competing at the 2015 IPC<br />
Athletics World Championships in Doha, Qatar.<br />
Jones has a focal femur deficiency, meaning she was born without the top half of her right<br />
leg. Her foot was amputated in 2006. She began competing in wheelchair racing in 2008.<br />
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