title: Christine Bell (athlete)
text: # Christine Bell (athlete)
  
  Christine Bell née Perera (born 1949), is a female former athlete who competed for England.
  
  ## Athletics career
  
  She represented England and won a bronze medal in the 100 metres hurdles, at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.
  
  In 1968 she became English champion over 100 m hurdles, 1968 and 1970 over 200 m hurdles and 1969 English indoor champion over 60 m hurdles. On 3 June 1967 in Blackburn she set an unofficial world-best time over 100 m hurdles with 13.7 s. In 1969 she won bronze at the European Indoor Games in Belgrade over 50 m hurdles and competed in the 1969 European Athletics Championships.
  
  