Chris Nunn

Chris Nunn

Nunn at the Australian Institute of Sport on 11 November 2011
Personal information
Nationality	Australia
Born	(1958-12-18) 18 December 1958 (age 58) Maffra, Victoria
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Now coaching	Head Coach of the Australian Paralympic athletics team

Christopher John "Chris" Nunn, OAM (born 18 December 1958) is an Australian athletics coach. He was the Head Coach of the Australian athletics team at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics.

He was born in Maffra, Victoria on 18 December 1958. He lived his first eight years in the nearby town of Heyfield. Nunn grew up with a brother and two sisters. In 1976, his family moved to a farm called Leura Hill near Myponga in South Australia. He attended Yankalilla Area School. His interested in sport particularly athletics was heightened through the school's physical education teacher, Lance Rosser. After leaving school, he worked as an insurance clerk for two years in Adelaide. In addition, he and athletics friend Robin Gorringe coached athletics during the school holidays.

In 1985, he graduated with a physical education degree at the South Australian College of Advanced Education now the University of South Australia that he had commenced in 1982. In 1990, after teaching for four years in several South Australian high schools, Chris and his new partner Vicki opened a general store in Port Vincent. Nunn and his wife Vicki Nunn have four children; he was previously married to Olympic athlete Glynis Nunn (née Saunders. Nunn has stated that the greatest influences on his life have been his parents, Lance Rosser and Dr John Daly, Australian athletics Olympic Coach.

In 1981, he moved to Brisbane to be closer to his partner and athlete Glynis Nunn (née Saunders). Due to the lack of coaching in Brisbane, they returned to Adelaide. He won national title medals in men's 110m hurdles and decathlon. He and Glynis competed at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. He competed in the men's decathlon but withdrew during the event due to injury. At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, his wife Glynis won the gold medal in the women's heptathlon. In the lead up to the Games, he coached his wife in shot put and javelin. He retired from competitive athletics in 1989.