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Christine Brown is an Indian 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 Guzdar 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 equalled the 100m record of 12.4 seconds.[5][6]
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.
- ↑ https://www.espn.in/athletics/story/_/id/24288037/iconic-asian-games-medals-mary-dsouza-1951-silver-bronze
- ↑ Indian Express, 29 August, 1953
- ↑ Indian Express, 30 August, 1953
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