Veronica Campbell-brown
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Veronica Campbell Brown C.D. (born May 1982) is a Jamaican track and field sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 meters.
After Bärbel Wöckel of Germany's 1976 and 1980 Olympic champions, she is the second woman in history to win two consecutive Olympic 200 m events.
Campbell Brown is one of only nine athletes to win world championships at the youth, junior, and senior levels of an athletic sport. She was a bronze medalist in the 100 meters and 21.74 seconds at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics and the 200 m gold medalist.
In her time at the World Championships in Athletics, she has earned seven silver medals and one bronze medal.
She is a two-time champion at the IAAF World Indoor Championships, running over 60 meters.
Early life
Campbell and Pamela Bailey, both of Clarks Town, Jamaica, were born on May 15, 1982. She has five brothers and four sisters and attended Troy Primary and Vere Technical High School in Clarendon before pursuing higher education at the University of Arkansas.
Personal life
Campbell-Brown, a fellow Jamaican sprinter and University of Arkansas alumnus, changed her name to Campbell-Brown a few years later, making the hyphen disappear from her name, renaming it Campbell Brown. They now live and train in Clermont, Florida. She was appointed as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in late 2009 and said she would use the position to foster gender equality in sport.
Junior career
At the inaugural IAAF World Youth Championships in 1999, she captured two gold medals, the 100 m, and 4 x 100 m relay. She made history by winning the sprint double at the IAAF World Junior Championships the following year. She ran the 100 m in 11.12 seconds (which was a national record at the time) and the 200 meters in 22.87 s. At the 2000 Olympic Games, she was second leg on the silver medalist 4x 100 m relay team. She received the Austin Sealy Trophy in 2001 for the most outstanding participant of the 2001 CARIFTA Games. In the junior (U-20) category, she captured three gold medals (100 m, 200 m, and 4 100 m relay) that year.
College career
Campbell enrolled at Barton County Community College in Great Bend, Kansas, where she set several records and gained many titles, including four national junior college titles in the 60, 100, and 200 meters both indoors and outdoors. Campbell also excelled academically, receiving an associate degree from Barton County in 2002 with a 3.8 average. She then attended the University of Arkansas, where she stood out as a sprinter in a long-distance runners-dominated program.
Professional career
Campbell Brown earned her first Olympic medal of her illustrious career at the age of 18 years old. She competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics with Tayna Lawrence, Beverly McDonald, Merlene Frazer, Merlene Frazer, and sprint veteran and Olympic legend Merlene Ottey, who finished second in the finals in a time of 42.13 seconds behind Caribbean neighbors, Bahamas. Campbell Brown had shown herself to be a promising girl as a youth, winning at the junior level and the Jamaica Annual Boys and Girls Championship for her high school, Vere technical High. On Track and Field World, the engineer who created Jamaica's triumph has been lauded.
Campbell Brown, 22, represented Jamaica at the 2004 Athens Olympics. She placed third in both the 100 m and 200 m. Campbell Brown later competed in the 200 m finals, a tournament in which Allyson Felix was expected to win. In the 200 meter finals, the VCB continued to destabilize the field. She began racing on a whizzing curve and maintained her form in the final stretch to become the first Jamaican and Caribbean woman to win a sprint Olympic title in the Olympic games. As her national anthem was played in the stadium and flag hoisted, a visibly emotional Campbell Brown was brought to tears at the medal ceremony.
Campbell Brown was then joined by Aleen Bailey, Tayna Lawrence, and Sherone Simpson in the finals of the women's 4 100 meters.
Campbell took home the silver medal in the 100 m at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in August. Sherone Simpson, Daniele Browning, Aleen Bailey, and Sherone Simpson competed for her second silver medal in the 4 x 100 m relay (together with Daniele Browning, Aleen Bailey, and Sherone Simpson).
Campbell won three medals, a gold in the 100 m (second to Felix), and silver in the 4 x 100 meters relay at the 2007 World Championships.
She came in fourth place in the 100 m, thus missing the qualifying requirement to automatically make the Jamaican Olympic roster for the event. She ran 10.88 s in the final, the second fastest time for a fourth-place finish. She did however qualify for the 100 m final in what was then a personal record time of 21.94 s.
Veronica Campbell Brown carried the Jamaican flag at the Athletes' Parade at the 2008 Olympics' opening ceremony. Shelly-Ann Fraser, Sheri-Ann Brooks, and Aleen Bailey all ran in the 4 x 100 m relay, a new personal record of 21.74 seconds. Jamaica came first in the first round heats over Russia, Germany, and China. The Jamaican teams' time of 42.24 seconds was the first time out of sixteen participating countries. Jamaica qualified for the final with Brooks and Bailey's replacement with Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart. Due to a mistake in the baton exchange, Jamaica did not finish the race.
Campbell Brown was named as the top 200 m runner in the world and fourth best in the 100 meters by Track and Field News at the 2008 season. In addition, she came in eighth overall in polls for the magazine's Woman of the Year award.
By winning the 200 m national championship, she qualified for her third World Championships. Shelly Ann Fraser and Simone Facey were beaten in a time of 22.40 seconds in June 2009, but a toe injury left her lacking full fitness.
Campbell Brown came in fourth in the 100 m final at the 2009 World Championships, behind teammates Fraser and Stewart. She then won her second World 200 m silver, behind American Allyson Felix. She finished the season at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix, a personal record of the year (10.89) to finish second, behind Carmelita Jeter, who became the second fastest ever in 10.64 seconds. Campbell Brown was the fourth fastest 100 meter sprinter overall this season, despite being defeated by Jeter.
In 2010, she captured her first World Indoor 60m Gold medal in a time of 7.00. She then went on to record the fastest time in the 200 meters in 21.98 in New York. She also ran a 10.78 in Eugene, defeating Fraser Pryce and Jeter.
Veronica Campbell Brown of Jamaica won the Jamaican athletic trials in both the 100 and 200 meters in 2011 and was one of the top candidates for both gold medals at the world championships in Dael. She captured the silver medal in the women's 100 m in 10.98, behind Jeter, who took home in 10.90. She went on to win her first 200 m world title in a timer of 22.22, defeating Jeter and Felix, who came second and third respectively. Campbell qualified in the 200m and Finals of the World Championships 100 and 200m in 2015, placing 3rd in the 200m, which was won by Dafne Schippers.
She defended her 60m World Indoor Gold medal in 2012, a record she set in a time of 7.01. Veronica qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London in both the 100 m and the 200 m, placing third behind Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce and Carmelita Jeter in the 100 meters. She came in last place in the 200 meters, just outside of bronze for fourth place. She and the Jamaican team finished second in the 4 x 100 m relay final, behind the United States, who took home a new world record of 41.82 s.
Campbell Brown finished fourth in the 2014 World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland, and over the 60 m relay, finishing in 5th place in 5th place with a time of 10.91 s and a time of 41.07 seconds respectively, in fourth place.
In the 200 m and 4 100 meters relay, Campbell Brown was also competing in the 2016 Rio Olympics. In the 200 m., she didn't make it out of the heat and ended in 27th place with a time of 22.97 s, but won the silver medal as part of the Jamaican team in the 4 100 m relay with a time of 41.01 seconds behind the US team, which finished in 41.01 seconds.
