Christopher Jones (water polo player)
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Christopher Jones (born June 23, 1886 in Pontypridd , † December 18, 1937 in Penarth , Vale of Glamorgan ) was a British water polo player.
Jones was a member of the Weston-Super-Mare team, which won the English water polo championships three times. In 1904 Jones played his first international match against Ireland, which could be won. Jones was also a successful rugby player and was active in the sport from 1910 to 1915 when he was drafted and served in World War I. After the war he stopped playing rugby and started playing water polo again.
At the Olympic Games in 1920 he took part with the British national team and won together with Charles Sydney Smith , Paul Radmilovic , Charles Bugbee , Noel Purcell , William Dean and William Peacock against Belgium 3-2 and won the gold medal.
Web links
- Chris Jones in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Jones, Christopher |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jones, Chris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British water polo player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pontypridd |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 1937 |
| Place of death | Penarth , Vale of Glamorgan |