{{Short description|British long-distance runner (born 1978)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Use British English|date=March 2012}} [[File:Berlin marathon Andi Jones kilometer 34 Tauentzien 25.09.2011 10-59-16.jpg|thumb|Jones running the Berlin Marathon 2011]] '''Andrew "Andi" Jones''' (born 10 October 1978, in Ashton-under-Lyne<ref>Neil Shuttleworth, "Andi Jones Reflects, on Gravy Day", ''The Fellrunner'', Autumn 2014, 24.</ref>) is an English athlete who specialises in road, cross country, and mountain/fell running, and has competed for England and Great Britain. In 2003, he finished fourth in the World Mountain Trophy in Alaska.<ref name="runnerslife1">{{cite web|url=http://www.runnerslife.co.uk/andi-jones/profile |title=Runnerslife: Andi Jones Profile |publisher=Runnerslife.co.uk |accessdate=2014-04-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413123441/http://www.runnerslife.co.uk/andi-jones/profile |archivedate=13 April 2014 }}</ref> Closer to home, he competes for Stockport Harriers.<ref name="manchestereveningnews1">{{cite web|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/other-sport/andi-jones-wins-greater-manchester-6925751 |title=Andi Jones wins Greater Manchester Marathon |publisher=Manchester Evening News |date=2014-04-06 |accessdate=2014-04-12}}</ref> Although one of the UK's leading distance runners, Andi chooses to work full-time alongside his running career and was employed as head of Design and Technology at Falinge Park High School, Rochdale.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.falingepark.com/faculties/design-and-technology/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924010044/http://www.falingepark.com/faculties/design-and-technology/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-09-24 |title=Design and Technology | Falinge Park High School |publisher=Falingepark.com |accessdate=2014-04-12 }}</ref><ref name="runnerslife1"/> In 2014, Jones emigrated to Qatar.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eightlane.org/qatar-andi-jones-training-blog/|title=wordpress-231953-953672.cloudwaysapps.com – Just another WordPress site}}</ref>
Andi became the first athlete for twelve years to retain the senior men's title at the 2007 English Northern Cross Country Championships at Heaton Park, Manchester. The last runner to win back-to-back crowns was Rossendale Harrier, Dave Lewis, in 1994 and 1995.
In July 2009, Jones became the first male to win the Snowdon Race four times in a row. He missed the 2010 Snowdon Race to concentrate on the European and Commonwealth Marathon Championships, but returned in 2011 to record a narrow win over Scottish athlete Murray Strain, and won for a sixth time in 2013. He finished tenth in the 2010 London Marathon, the second best performing European man after Andrew Lemoncello.<ref>Brown, Matthew (25 April 2010). [http://www.iaaf.org/LRR10/news/newsid=56560.html Commanding victories for Kebede and Shobukhova – London Marathon report]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-04-28.</ref>
Early in his career, Jones ran for East Cheshire Harriers, later moving to Salford Harriers and then to Stockport Harriers.<ref name="runnerslife1"/><ref name=power/>
Jones has also worked at Falinge Park High school as a resistance material teacher.
==Personal bests== * 10 km: 29:28 – Trafford (2005)<ref name="runnerslife1"/> * Half marathon: 64:22 – Wilmslow (2009)<ref name=power>{{Power of 10 name|4225}}</ref> * Marathon: 2:15:20 – London (2009)<ref name="runnerslife1"/>
==Major achievements== * 2003 World Mountain Running Trophy, Alaska – 4th<ref name="runnerslife1"/> * 2006 North of England Cross Country Championships – 1st<ref name="runnerslife1"/> * 2006 Liverpool Half Marathon – 1st * 2006 European Mountain Running Championships – 7th * 2008 English National Cross Country Championships – 4th * 2008 World Cross Country Championships – 80th * 2008 Birmingham Half Marathon – 1st * 2011 European Mountain Running Championships – 6th<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wmra.ch/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=567&Itemid=4&year=2011&discode=3101&cat=i|title=WMRA – World Mountain Running Association|website=wmra.ch}}</ref> * 2014 Greater Manchester Marathon – 1st<ref name="2014 results">{{Cite web|url=https://www.racetecresults.com/StartPage.aspx?CId=38|title=All Races|website=racetecresults.com}}</ref> <ref name=power/><ref>{{ARRS name|23106}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{World Athletics}} * {{Power of 10 name|4225}} * {{ARRS name|23106}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Andi}} Category:1978 births Category:Living people Category:Athletes from Manchester Category:English men long-distance runners Category:British men long-distance runners Category:British fell runners Category:British men mountain runners Category:Commonwealth Games athletes for England Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games