Christine Brown (born September 1938) is an Indian track-and-field athlete. She won a gold medal in 4×100m relay (with

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, Violet Peters and Mary d'Souza) and bronze in the 100 metres in the

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. 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. In the inter school athletics competition in Bangalore in 1953 Brown, then a fifteen year old student of

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, 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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