Christine Warden
{{short description|English hurdler}}
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| nationality = British (English)
| sport = Athletics
| event = hurdles
| club = Wolves & Bilston AC
| birth_date = 26 December 1950
| birth_place = England
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Christine Warden (née Ηοwell;[http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=2981&Gender=W Christine Warden]. Track and Field Statistics. Retrieved 2018-04-02. born 26 December 1950){{cite web|url=https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/christine-warden-170559 |work=IAAF |title=Christine Warden |accessdate=2 April 2018}} is an English former 400 metres hurdler.
Biography
Born Christine Howell, she married Peter Warden in late 1973 and competed under her married name thereafter.{{cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=252103061:8599&d=bmd_1740370513 |title=Marriages |website=Free BMD |access-date=8 March 2025 }}
Warden became the British 400 metres hurdles champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1976 WAAA Championships in a national record time of 57.84 sec.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004941/19760822/558/0027 |title=Super Andrea Powers Home |work=Sunday Express |date=22 August 1976 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=8 March 2025 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002135/19760823/333/0011 |title=Athletics |work=Birmingham Daily Post |date=23 August 1976 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=8 March 2025 }}
Warden regained the 400 metres WAAA title at the 1979 WAAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004941/19790729/495/0032 |title=Athletics Results |work=Sunday Express |date=29 July 1979 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=14 March 2025 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=8 March 2025}} She also finished fourth representing Europe at the 1979 IAAF World Cup and reached the 1980 World Championship final. Her 400 m hurdles best of 56.06 seconds set in 1979, is a former British record and still ranks her in the UK all-time top 20.
Warden won a third WAAA title at the 1981 WAAA Championships.{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=8 March 2025 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004941/19810726/531/0027 |title=Shirley 'Puffs' To Hat-Trick |work=Sunday Express |date=26 July 1981 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 March 2025}}
International competitions
= National titles =
- 3 AAA Championships (1976, 1979, 1981){{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |work=GBR Athletics |title=AAA Championships (Women) |accessdate=2 April 2018}}
- 2 UK Championships (1977, 1979){{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/uk.htm |work=GBR Athletics |title=UK Championships |accessdate=2 April 2018}}
References
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Category:British female hurdlers
Category:English female hurdlers
Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain