Hayes Wendell Jones
Eastern Michigan Track and Fiield
Eastern Michigan Track Athlete (1959 – 1961)
NCAA National Champion High and Low Hurdles
Eastern Michigan’s E-Club Athletic Hall of Fame
NCAA National Champion High and Low Hurdles
Eastern Michigan’s E-Club Athletic Hall of Fame
U.S. Track and Field Athlete
Gold medalist 110-meter hurdles 1964 Olympics
Bronze medalist 110-meter hurdles 1960 Olympics
National Track and Field Hall of Fame
Bronze medalist 110-meter hurdles 1960 Olympics
National Track and Field Hall of Fame
Hayes Wendell Jones
Eastern Michigan Track Athlete (1959 – 1961)
United States Track & Field Athlete (1960, 1964)
Hayes Jones was born in Starkville, Mississippi and moved to Pontiac, Michigan where he won the Class A state title in the long jump (1956) at Pontiac High School. He went on to attend Eastern Michigan University and won the high hurdles and low hurdles doubles at the national championships as a sophomore in 1958. Jones captured nine AAU hurdles titles over a six-year period. Indoors, he logged 55 straight wins and set a world indoor best of 6.8 for 60 yards in 1962. While in college, he also ran impressively in both the 100 and 220 and was a member of a world record setting 4x100m relay team. As a member of the U.S. Track and Field team, Jones won the bronze medal in the 110-meter hurdles at the 1960 Rome Olympics and came back and won the gold medal in the same event in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Hayes Jones was inducted into Eastern Michigan’s E-Club Athletic Hall of Fame in 1977, the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1976 was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 1969.