Christine Harrison-Bloomfield

Christine Harrison-Bloomfield (born February 12, 1968) is a former athlete from the United Kingdom.

She is now an athletics coach and has worked with the likes of Christine Ohuruogu, Asha Philip and Jodie Williams.[1]

Biography

Harrison-Bloomfield is a former sprint athlete who mainly competed in the track events of 100m and 200m. However, there are also recordings of her competing in the field at pole vault.[2]

She now works as an athletics coach and has had success working with global British medalists.[1]

She currently coaches British 400m runner Laviai Nielsen at London's Lee Valley, where she is the only elite-level female coach.[1]

Christine describes herself as a trailblazer for representation of female coaches in sports, something that is very important to her.[1]

In July 2020, she was named by UK Sport as one of the 27 coaches in a new scheme to increase female representation in sport. The programme sees 27 coaches across 15 sports given the opportunity to develop in a quest to double female representation for the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic games.[3]

References
  1. Tomas, Fiona (2020-07-23). "Female athletes are winning their fight for Olympics equality - but there is still some way to go to close the gender gap". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  2. "Christine BLOOMFIELD | Profile". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  3. Dunn, Jarryd (2021-01-28). "UK Sport names 27 coaches as part of plan to increase female representation". British Judo. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
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