Christine Brown

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]

Christine Brown
Personal information
Full nameChristine Brown
Nickname(s)Overachieving Baldwinian
NationalityIndian
BornBombay, British India
Alma materBaldwin Girls' High School
HeightTall
Sport
Country India
SportAthletics
Event(s)Long Jump, 100m Sprints, 110m hurdles
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  India
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place1954 Manila4×100 m
Bronze medal – third place1954 Manila100 m
Bronze medal – third place1958 Tokyo4×100 m

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
  1. "MEDAL WINNERS OF ASIAN GAMES". Athletics Federation of India. Archived from the original on 5 May 2018. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
  2. Link. United India Periodicals. 1982. p. 37.
  3. "Asian Games : Manila 1954". Sports Bharti. Archived from the original on 5 May 2018. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
  4. "Iconic Asian Games medals – Mary D'Souza's 1951 silver, bronze". ESPN. 13 August 2018.
  5. Indian Express, 29 August, 1953
  6. Indian Express, 30 August, 1953
  7. 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.


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