Robyn Lauren Brown

Robyn Lauren Crisostomo Brown (born July 27, 1994 ) is a Filipino-American hurdler competing for the Philippines, who was the gold medalist of the 400m hurdles event at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships.

Education
Brown graduated from Ruben S. Ayala High School in Chino Hills, California in 2012 and attended Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, California for two years. She was a member of the Hawaii Rainbow Wahine track and field team at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and graduated in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies.

Career
Brown has competed for the Philippines at the Southeast Asian Games. She competed in the women's 400m hurdles. She won bronze in both the 2019 and 2021 editions in the Philippines and Vietnam. At the 2023 edition in Cambodia, she won a silver. Here she broke the 30_-year Philippine record previously set by Elma Muros Posadas.

At the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok, Brown clinched a gold medal in the women's 400m hurdles. This ended the gold medal drought for the Philippines, with the last one won by a Filipina being the women's long jump medal attained by Marestella Torres-Sunang in 2009.

Personal life
Brown came from a family of medical workers. Her father Kurtis Brown was a former respiratory therapist while her mother Susana Crisostomo is a nurse in Los Angeles.