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'''Christine Brown''' is an Indian [[Sport of athletics|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 [[Athletics at the 1954 Asian Games|1954 Asian Games]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://indianathletics.in/medal%C2%A0winners%C2%A0%C2%A0asian%C2%A0games | title=MEDAL WINNERS OF ASIAN GAMES | publisher=Athletics Federation of India | accessdate=5 May 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180505070444/http://indianathletics.in/medal%C2%A0winners%C2%A0%C2%A0asian%C2%A0games | archive-date=5 May 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Link|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bnFDAAAAYAAJ|year=1982|publisher=United India Periodicals|page=37}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sportsbharti.com/athletics/asian-games-manila-1954/ | title=Asian Games : Manila 1954 | publisher=Sports Bharti | accessdate=5 May 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180505134857/http://www.sportsbharti.com/athletics/asian-games-manila-1954/ | archive-date=5 May 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.in/athletics/story/_/id/24288037/iconic-asian-games-medals-mary-dsouza-1951-silver-bronze|title=Iconic Asian Games medals – Mary D'Souza's 1951 silver, bronze|date=13 August 2018|website=ESPN}}</ref>

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 equalled the 100m record of 12.4 seconds.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19530829&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Indian Express, 29 August, 1953]</ref><ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19530830&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Indian Express, 30 August, 1953]</ref>

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[[Category:Indian female sprinters]]
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[[Category:Asian Games gold medalists for India]]
[[Category:Asian Games bronze medalists for India]]
[[Category:Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)]]
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[[Category:Medalists at the 1954 Asian Games]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games]]

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