Christine Brown
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| Full name | Christine Brown | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Indian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Bombay, British India | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Baldwin Girls' High School | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  India | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Long Jump, 100m Sprints, 110m hurdles | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Christine Brown (born September 1938) is an Indian track-and-field athlete. She won a gold medal in 4×100m relay (with Stephie d'Souza, Violet Peters and Mary d'Souza) and bronze in the 100 metres in the 1954 Asian Games.[1][2][3] This was the first gold by an Indian women's team at the Asian Games. Mary D'Souza, Pat Mendonca, Banoo Gulzar and Roshan Mistry had won a silver in the same event in 1951.[4]
In the inter school athletics competition in Bangalore in 1953 Brown, then a fifteen year old student of Baldwin Girls High School, broke the national long jump record with a jump of 17' 4" and equaled the 100m record of 12.4 seconds.[5][6] She belonged to an Anglo-Indian family from Bombay.[7]
References
- ^ "MEDAL WINNERS OF ASIAN GAMES". Athletics Federation of India. Archived from the original on 5 May 2018. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
- ^ Link. United India Periodicals. 1982. p. 37.
- ^ "Asian Games : Manila 1954". Sports Bharti. Archived from the original on 5 May 2018. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
- ^ "Iconic Asian Games medals – Mary D'Souza's 1951 silver, bronze". ESPN. 13 August 2018.
- ^ Indian Express, 29 August, 1953
- ^ Indian Express, 30 August, 1953
- ^ S. Lal (1 January 2008). 50 Magnificent Indians Of The 20Th Century. Jaico Publishing House. pp. 299–. ISBN 978-81-7992-698-7. Retrieved 4 May 2018.