As a former U17 and U19 England netball player, Christine participated in athletics from the age of 16 because of her love for running. She began to specialise in the 400m after agreeing to run her first race as no other athlete from Newham & Essex Beagles wanted to compete over such a distance. From then on Christine was regularly selected to run the 400m due to the impressive times she ran for her age group.

Christine was selected to compete for the GB team at the Athens Olympics in 2004, achieving a new personal best of 50.50 in the heats and narrowly missing out on a place in the final, finishing 4th in her semi final.

With Christine holding a strong belief that everyone should always make the most of their talent, she uses the fact that there is so much more out there to be achieved as her motivation to help continuously improve her level of conditioning and endurance speed to become the best in her event.

At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne Christine convincingly beat the then reigning World 400m champion, Tonique Williams, to win gold in another pb of 50.28 before adding a gold in the 4x400m to her impressive medal haul.

After this impressive start to her season, shee unfortunately fell foul of a doping violation, whereby she omitted to inform UK Athletics of a change in her training location.

Having served a 12 month ban as a result she then returned to competition in August, continuing her preparation for the World Championships in Osaka.

Having stormed through her heat and semi-final in the 400m at the Championships, both in personal best times, Christine entered the final with much pressure on her shoulders and very much in the media spotlight. With her challenging year away from athletics behind her Christine ran yet another personal best, claiming the Gold Medal in the last few metres of the race in a time of 49.61 seconds, ranking her as the third fastest British woman in history over the distance.

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