Chris Rawlinson
Athlete
Chris (Christopher Lee) Rawlinson was born on 19 May 1972 in Rotherham, Yorkshire. He attended Loughborough University.
Chris was an all-round athlete competing in the pole vault, decathlon and 110 m hurdles but made his name as a 400m hurdler. Chris holds the world best of 34.48 seconds for the rarely-run 300m hurdles, which he set at Sheffield, England on 30 June 2002. In July 2004 he ranked third on the United Kingdom all-time list for the 400 m hurdles with a time of 48.14 seconds, set in 1999 at Zurich, Switzerland. In the build-up to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, Chris was ranked number five in the world by the IAAF.
Chris Rawlinson's Major Achievements
1997 World Championships Athens, Greece 5th (heats) 400 m hurdles 1999 Universiade Palma de Mallorca, Spain 2nd 4 x 400 m relay 2000 European Cup Gateshead, England 1st 400 m hurdles 2000 Olympic Games Sydney, Australia 6th (semis) 400 m hurdles 2000 IAAF Grand Prix Final Doha, Qatar 6th 400 m hurdles
2001 World Championships Edmonton, Canada 5th 400 m hurdles
2002 European Cup Annecy, France 3rd 400 m hurdles
2002 Commonwealth Games Manchester, England 1st 400 m hurdles
2002 Commonwealth Games Manchester, England 1st 4 x 400 m relay
2002 European Championships Munich, Germany 2nd (semis) 400 m hurdles
2002 IAAF Grand Prix Final Paris, France 8th 400 m hurdles
2002 IAAF World Cup Madrid, Spain 3rd 400 m hurdles
2003 European Cup Florence, Italy 1st 400 m hurdles
2003 European Cup Florence, Italy 2nd 4 x 400 m relay
2003 World Championships Paris, France 6th 400 m hurdles
2003 World Championships Paris, France 4th 4 x 400 m relay
2003 IAAF World Athletics Final Monte Carlo, Monaco 8th 400 m hurdles
2004 European Cup Bydgoszcz, Poland 1st 400 m hurdles
2004 Olympic Games Athens, Greece 8th (semis) 400 m hurdles
2004 IAAF World Athletics Final Monte Carlo, Monaco 8th 400 m hurdles
2005 European Cup Florence, Italy 6th 400 m hurdles
2006 Commonwealth Games Melbourne, Australia 8th 400 m hurdles
Rawlinson retired from competitive athletics at the end of 2005 at the age of 33. He married Australian athlete Jana Pittman on 31 March 2006. Rawlinson coached Jana from 2004 - 2009. On 14 December 2006 she gave birth to the couple's first child, son Cornelis Levi. Rawlinson became an Australian citizen in January 2009 and returned to the track running for Australia in March 2009, though I have found no evidence of further competitions.
In April 2009 it was announced that Rawlinson and his wife had separated after three years of marriage. In January 2010 it was announced that they were reconciled and they re-married on 31 March 2010. It is my understanding that they are resident in the UK.