- Date of Birth30 / 12 / 1921
- Died18 / 04 / 2006
- Lions Tours1950
- International CapsWales / Lions
- Lions Origin SchoolsWest Monmouth GS Pontypool
- Lions Origin ClubsWelsh Academicals, Blaenavon RFC, Barbarians, Talywain, Leicester Tigers, Newport, Loughborough Students, Crawshays, Pontypool
Ken Jones will be remembered as one of the greatest all-round athletes to ever represent the Lions.
Selected for the 1950 Tour to New Zealand, Jones had represented Great Britain two years earlier at the London Olympics in the 4x100m relay, winning a silver medal.
He showed off that speed against the All Blacks with one of the all-time great Lions tries, racing 75 metres and leaving Bob Scott trailing in the fourth Test.
Jones scored 16 tries in 17 games on that Tour, while he went onto score the winning try against New Zealand in 1953, the last of his Test career and Wales’ last win over the All Blacks.
He was later awarded an OBE and passed away in 2006.