{{short description|British sport shooter}} {{use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Use British English|date=October 2023}}
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'''Lina Jones''' ({{née|'''Bendaraviciute'''}}; born 13 January 1968) is a British sports shooter. As of 2023, she has won the British Prone Championship three times, including back-to-back wins in 2022 and 2023. She has represented England at two Commonwealth Games. She represented Great Britain at the 2014 ISSF World Championships and 2015 European Shooting Championships.
==Early life== Lina started shooting at the age of eight with a rifle club in her hometown of Kaunas, Lithuania.<ref name="On-Target-Biography"/> In the run up to the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Lithuania hosted some events of the Spartakiad and a world-class range was built close to her home. In 1986 she was awarded Master of Sport of the Soviet Union and studied sport shooting and physical education at university.<ref name="On-Target-Biography"/>
Following Lithuanian independence in 1991, Lina met an English shooter John Miller, who was visiting Lithuania to shoot. Miller invited Lina to shoot at the British Small-bore Championships at Bisley. She later moved to the UK to work, meeting her future husband Peter Jones. The couple married in 1993.<ref name="On-Target-Biography"/>
==Shooting career== Between 1986 and 1991 Jones became Lithuanian women's champion in 50-metre prone rifle, 50-metre three-position rifle and 10-metre air rifle.<ref name="On-Target-Biography"/>
In 2012 Jones was selected as a reserve for the British team travelling to the 2013 Pershing Match.<ref>{{cite web |title=2013 Pershing Team Decided |url=https://www.nsra.co.uk/news/shooting-news/1290--sp-15692 |website=nsra.co.uk |publisher=National Small-bore Rifle Association |access-date=17 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017142844/https://www.nsra.co.uk/news/shooting-news/1290--sp-15692 |archive-date=17 October 2023 |language=en-gb |date=2012 |url-status=live}}</ref>
Jones represented Great Britain at the 2014 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Granada, where she placed 28th and set a new British Women's record in the 50m Prone Rifle event.
Jones was selected to represent England in the Women's Prone Rifle event at the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games.<ref>{{cite web |title=Shooting {{!}} Athlete Profile: Lina Jones |url=https://results.gc2018.com/en/shooting/athlete-profile-n6035058-lina-jones.htm |website=Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519030738/https://results.gc2018.com/en/shooting/athlete-profile-n6035058-lina-jones.htm |archive-date=19 May 2022 |language=en |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author1=Gary Anderson |title=English shooter Gault targets Commonwealth Games medals record at Glasgow 2014 |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1019622/english-shooter-gault-targets-commonwealth-games-medals-record-at-glasgow-2014 |access-date=17 October 2023 |work=insidethegames |publisher=Dunsar Media Company |date=22 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806163249/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1019622/english-shooter-gault-targets-commonwealth-games-medals-record-at-glasgow-2014 |archive-date=6 August 2020 |language=en-gb}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Lina Jones {{!}} England Shooting Team {{!}} Team England |url=https://teamengland.org/team-england-athletes/lina-jones |website=Team England |publisher=Commonwealth Games England |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925215849/https://teamengland.org/team-england-athletes/lina-jones |archive-date=25 September 2020 |language=en-gb |url-status=live}}</ref> She qualified for the finals at both Games, finishing fifth in 2014<ref>{{cite news |title=Shooting: Women's 50m rifle prone results |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/28524010 |access-date=17 October 2023 |work=BBC Sport |date=28 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017153557/https://www.bbc.com/sport/commonwealth-games/28524010 |archive-date=17 October 2023 |language=en}}</ref> and fourth in 2018.<ref>{{cite news |title=Commonwealth Games: Shooting – Women's 50m Rifle Prone |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/43734627 |access-date=17 October 2023 |work=BBC Sport |date=12 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017153717/https://www.bbc.com/sport/commonwealth-games/43734627 |archive-date=17 October 2023 |language=en-gb}}</ref>
==References== <references>
<ref name="On-Target-Biography">{{cite journal |author1=Lyn Luxton |title=Meditation with a score |journal=On Target |date=Autumn 2022 |issue=824 |pages=18–19 |publisher=National Small-bore Rifle Association |language=en-gb}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{ISSF|SHGBRW1301196801}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Lina}} Category:Living people Category:British female sport shooters Category:ISSF rifle shooters Category:Shooters at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Category:Shooters at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Category:Winners of the Earl Roberts Memorial Challenge Cup Category:1968 births