Christine Brown

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

[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] 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.

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