{{short description|English hurdler}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Christine Warden<br>née Ηοwell | image = | caption = | nationality = British (English) | sport = Athletics | event = hurdles | club = Wolves & Bilston AC | birth_date = 26 December 1950 | birth_place = England | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | pb = | medaltemplates= }}
'''Christine Warden''' (née '''Ηοwell''';<ref>[http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=2981&Gender=W Christine Warden]. Track and Field Statistics. Retrieved 2018-04-02.</ref> born 26 December 1950)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/great-britain-ni/christine-warden-170559 |work=IAAF |title=Christine Warden |accessdate=2 April 2018}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>
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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref>
Warden regained the 400 metres WAAA title at the 1979 WAAA Championships.<ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=8 March 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
==International competitions== {| {{AchievementTable|Event=yes}} |- !colspan=6|Representing {{GBR2}} / Europe |- |1977 |European Cup |Helsinki, Finland |5th |400 m hurdles |58.51 |- |rowspan=2|1979 |European Cup |Turin, Italy |4th |400 m hurdles |57.24 |- |World Cup |Montreal, Canada |4th |400 m hurdles |57.20 |- |1980 |World Championships |Sittard, Netherlands |DQ (final) |400 m hurdles |57.26 (sf) |}
=== National titles === *3 AAA Championships (1976, 1979, 1981)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |work=GBR Athletics |title=AAA Championships (Women) |accessdate=2 April 2018}}</ref> *2 UK Championships (1977, 1979)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/uk.htm |work=GBR Athletics |title=UK Championships |accessdate=2 April 2018}}</ref>
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