Christina Tracy Boxer nee Cahill was born on 25 March 1957 and is a female retired middle distance athlete from England.
12 Facts About Christina Boxer
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Christina Boxer won a gold medal in the 1500 m at the 1982 Commonwealth Games.
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Christina Boxer still remains one of only five British woman, along with Kirsty Wade, Hannah England, Laura Muir and Jessica Warner-Judd, to have broken both two minutes for 800 metres and nine minutes for 3000 metres.
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On 6 July 1984, Christina Boxer achieved her career best of 4:00.57 in the 1500 m at Gateshead, to break Christine Benning's five-year-old British record.
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Christina Boxer ended the season running a career best time in the mile, with 4:22.64 in London.
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Christina Boxer married Sean Cahill in 1986 and competed under her married name thereafter.
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Christina Boxer was beaten into bronze by Tetyana Samolenko, who was later banned for taking performance-enhancing drugs.
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Christina Boxer was the fifth fastest woman in the world in 1988 at 1500m.
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Christina Boxer retired as an international athlete later that year.
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Christina Boxer continued to combine consultancy work with formal employment contracts and project management and has held honorary positions promoting sport and coaching.
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Christina Boxer was board director of sportscoachUK from 1998 to 2007, a sporting patron of the Youth Sport Trust from 1992 to 2006 and a London2012 Olympic and Paralympic Ambassador in the West Midlands from 2009 to 2012.
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From 2014 to 2016 Christina Boxer worked as Director of Sport and Community Development at Queen Anne's School in Caversham before returning to the West Midlands, developing sport across the full spectrum from health-related fitness through to performance team and individual sports.