Christine Arron

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Medal record
Christine Arron at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics.
Competitor for France
Women's athletics
Olympic Games
Bronze	2004 Athens	4x100 m relay
World Championships
Gold	2003 Paris	4x100 m relay
Silver	1999 Seville	4x100 m relay
Bronze	1997 Athens	4x100 m relay
Bronze	2005 Helsinki	100 m
Bronze	2005 Helsinki	200 m

EAA European Championships
Gold	1998 Budapest	100 metres {{MedalGold\|1998 Budapest\|4x100 m relay]]

Christine Arron (born September 13, 1973 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe) is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for France.

She arrived in Metropolitan France in 1990 and first trained with Fernand Urtebise, who also coached 1997 world 400m hurdles champion Stephane Diagana. She had a hip injury which kept her out of the 2001 World Championships. She was named 1998 European Women's Athlete of the Year, after winning the 100m at the European Athletics Championships, breaking the European record in the process.

In 2001, after a heavy training period in the U.S. with John Smith and the HSI group, she quit training for a year, saying she was physically exhausted from the experience. "It was hell. Every morning I wondered how I was going to put up with the burden of training." In June 2002 she gave birth to her first child.

Arron was also the last runner of the French 4 X 100 relay team which upset the heavy favourites USA to win the gold medal in the 2003 World Championships in Athletics held in Paris. She recovered from 3 m behind the new 100 m World Champion, Torri Edwards, to give to the Stade de France crowd an unpredictable joy.

She won the bronze medal in the 4x100m relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.

In August 2005 she won a bronze medal in the 100 meters and in the 200 meters at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics.

Arron is the holder of the second-fastest 100 m performance ever (10.73). Considering the controversy surrounding the performances of world record-holder, Florence Griffith-Joyner, many consider Arron's performance to be the 'true' world record.