Christine Brown (born September 1938) is an Indian track-and-field

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. 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 The 1954 Asian Games (), officially known as the Second Asian Games – Manila 1954, were a multi-sport event held in Manila, Philippines, from May 1 to 9, 1954. A total of 970 athletes from 19 Asian National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in ...

. This was the first gold by an Indian women's team at the

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. Mary D'Souza, Pat Mendonca, Banoo Gulzar and Roshan Mistry had won a silver in the same event in 1951. 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.Indian Express, 30 August, 1953
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family from

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1938 births Living people Indian female sprinters Athletes from Mumbai Sportswomen from Maharashtra Anglo-Indian people Athletes (track and field) at the 1954 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1958 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for India Asian Games athletes for India Asian Games bronze medalists for India Medalists at the 1954 Asian Games Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field) {{India-athletics-bio-stub