Jones Bags European Championships Silver

 

Rhys Jones struck silver at the World Para Athletics European Championships in Berlin.

Jones, competing in the T37 100m, clocked 12.10secs to improve on his fourth place in the 200m event.

The Christian Malcolm coached sprinter said: “I am over the moon. It has been a rollercoaster of a year, especially with the Commonwealth Games so earlier in the season. 

“Times weren’t an issue it was about coming out an executing. I knew if I could execute I could win a medal. I said that after the 200m where it didn’t happen, but it was my time to shine this time and I delivered on the big stage.

“You don’t come here to make up the numbers, you really don’t. A gold medal would have been great but after agonisingly missing out on the podium in the 200m, this is redemption. 

“I was the fastest coming into the final, but I tried not to think of that. I am just a boy from Rhondda on the big stage and I have come away with a major medal again.”

Steve Morris came agonisingly close to a medal in the T20 800m, finishing fourth.

Morris, coached by James Thie, challenged the field by hitting the front early on however he was just pushed out of the medal positions in fourth in 1:57.76.

But Morris will be back in action on Saturday in his favoured 1500m distance.