Christie Dawes (athletics) competed at three Commonwealth Games in Melbourne 2006, Glasgow 2014 and Birmingham 2022 across both track and road events where she achieved top five results in every event but narrowly missed out on the medals.

Marathons have been a mainstay in Christie’s racing world – she has top five finishes in Berlin and Boston, a second in Chicago and a third in New York. Dawes competed at seven Paralympic Games – her first in Atlanta in 1996 – claiming a silver and two bronze medals on the track as well as several top 10 marathon finishes. She also has two relay gold medals from the 1998 IPC World Championships in Birmingham.

Christie took up wheelchair racing as part of her rehab after a car accident left her with paraplegia when she was 10. She married her coach Andrew Dawes in 2002 which also helped make training schedules easier after their son Charlie was born in January 2011. Andrew is also head coach of the wheelchair track/road team at the NSW Institute of Sport and guided Kurt Fearnley AO to marathon medals at four Paralympics and one Commonwealth Games.

A former primary school teacher, Christie now works as a presenter with ABC radio in Newcastle.