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Veronica Campbell-Brown
Veronica Campbell-Brown at the 2011 World Championships
Personal information
Birth nameVeronica Campbell
Born (1982-05-15) 15 May 1982 (age 42)
Clarks Town, Trelawny, Jamaica
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Weight61 kg (134 lb)[1]
Sport
SportTrack and Field
EventSprints
College teamArkansas Razorbacks
Medal record
Women's Athletics
Representing  Jamaica
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 3 3 2
World Championships 3 7 1
Commonwealth Games 1 4 0
World Indoor Championships 2 0 0
Continental Cup 2 0 0
World Athletics Final 3 1 0
World Relay Championships 1 1 0
World Junior Championships 2 1 0
CAC Junior Championships 4 0 0
Carifta Games 6 1 1
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens 4×100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2012 London 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens 100 m
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London 100 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Osaka 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2011 Daegu 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2015 Beijing 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2005 Helsinki 100 m
Silver medal – second place 2005 Helsinki 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2007 Osaka 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2007 Osaka 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2009 Berlin 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2011 Daegu 100 m
Silver medal – second place 2011 Daegu 4×100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Beijing 200 m
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Glasgow 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2002 Manchester 100 m
Silver medal – second place 2002 Manchester 4 × 100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2006 Melbourne 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2014 Glasgow 100 m
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Doha 60 m
Gold medal – first place 2012 Istanbul 60 m
Continental Cup
Gold medal – first place 2014 Marrakech 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2014 Marrakech 4x100 m relay
Representing Americas
World Athletics Final
Gold medal – first place 2004 Monaco 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2004 Monaco 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2005 Monaco 100 m
Silver medal – second place 2005 Monaco 200 m
World Relay Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Nassau 4×100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2015 Nassau 4×200 m relay
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2000 Santiago 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2000 Santiago 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2000 Santiago 4×100 m relay
CAC Championships
Gold medal – first place 1998 George Town 100 m
Gold medal – first place 1998 George Yown 4x100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2000 San Juan 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2000 San Juan 4x100 m relay
Carifta Games
Gold medal – first place 1997 Bridgetown 4x100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2000 St. George's 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2000 St. George's 4x100 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2001 Bridgetown 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2001 Bridgetown 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2001 Bridgetown 4x100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2000 St. Georges's 100 m
Bronze medal – third place 1999 Fort-de-France 200 m
World Youth Championships
Gold medal – first place 1999 Bydgoszcz 100 m
Gold medal – first place 1999 Bydgoszcz 4x100 m relay

Veronica Campbell Brown CD, OLY (born 15 May 1982) is a retired Jamaican track and field sprinter, who specialized in the 100 and 200 meters.[2] An eight-time Olympic medalist, she is the second of three women in history to win two consecutive Olympic 200 m events, after Bärbel Wöckel of Germany at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics and before fellow countrywoman Elaine Thompson-Herah at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics.[3] Campbell-Brown is one of only eleven athletes (along with Valerie Adams, Usain Bolt, Armand Duplantis, Jacques Freitag, Yelena Isinbayeva, Kirani James, Faith Kipyegon, Jana Pittman, Dani Samuels, and David Storl) to win world championships at the youth, junior, and senior level of an athletic event.

She holds personal bests of 10.76 seconds for the 100 m and 21.74 seconds for the 200 m. She was the 100 m gold medallist at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and the 200 m gold medallist at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics. She has also won seven silver medals and one bronze medal in her career at the World Championships in Athletics. Over 60 metres, she is a two-time champion at the IAAF World Indoor Championships.

Early life

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Campbell was born to Cecil Campbell and Pamela Bailey[4] in Clarks Town, Trelawny, Jamaica on 15 May 1982. She has five brothers and four sisters and attended Troy Primary and Vere Technical High School in Clarendon before pursuing higher education in the United States at the University of Arkansas.[citation needed]

Junior career

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In 1999, she won two gold medals, the 100 m and 4 x 100 m relay at the inaugural IAAF World Youth Championships. The following year, she became the first female to win the sprint double at the IAAF World Junior Championships. She took the 100 m in 11.12 s (which was a championship record at the time) and the 200 m in 22.87 s. At the 2000 Olympic Games, she ran the second leg on the silver medal winning 4 x 100 m relay team. In 2001, she was awarded the Austin Sealy Trophy for the most outstanding athlete of the 2001 CARIFTA Games.[5][6] That year, she won 3 gold medals (100 m, 200 m, and 4 × 100 m relay) in the junior (U-20) category.[citation needed]

College career

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Campbell attended Barton County Community College in Great Bend, Kansas, where she set several records and won many titles, including four national junior college titles in the 60, 100 and 200 metres both indoors and outdoors. She holds the current record for Barton County CC in the outdoor 100 m and 200 m. Campbell also excelled academically, earning an associate degree from Barton County in 2002 with a 3.8 grade average. She later attended the University of Arkansas, where she stood out as a sprint star in a programme dominated by long-distance runners.

Professional career

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At 18 years old, Campbell-Brown won the first Olympic medal of her illustrious career. She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 4 x 100 m relay along with Tayna Lawrence, Beverly McDonald, Merlene Frazer and sprint veteran and Olympic legend, Merlene Ottey where the team 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 athlete as a junior, having won at the junior level and at Jamaica's yearly Boys and Girls Championship for her high school, Vere Technical High. The Championship has been credited as the engineer behind Jamaica's success on the Track and Field World stage.

At the age of 22, Campbell-Brown represented Jamaica at the 2004 Athens Olympics. She competed in both the 100 m and 200 m. In the finals of the 100 m, she placed third. Campbell Brown later competed in the 200 m finals, a race American Allyson Felix was favored to win. VCB went on to decimate the field in the 200 m finals. She ran a blistering curve and held her form down the final stretch to become the first Jamaican and Caribbean woman in the history of the Olympic games to win a sprint Olympic title. A visibly emotional Campbell Brown was brought to tears at the medal ceremony as her national anthem was played in the stadium and flag hoisted.

Campbell-Brown then teamed up with Aleen Bailey, Tayna Lawrence, and Sherone Simpson in the finals of the 4 × 100 m. VCB ran a scintillating anchor leg as Jamaica went on to win the women's 4 × 100 m. Jamaica created history as it was the first time Jamaica had won the 4 × 100 m relay at the Olympics.

In August 2005, Campbell won the silver medal in the 100 m at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics. She won another silver medal in the 4 x 100 m relay (together with Daniele Browning, Aleen Bailey and Sherone Simpson).

At the 2007 World Championships, Campbell won three medals, a gold in the 100 m, silver in the 200 m (second to Felix) and silver in the 4 x 100 m relay.

At the 2008 Jamaican Olympic trials, she finished fourth in the 100 m, thereby missing the qualifying requirement to automatically make the Jamaican Olympic roster for that event. She clocked 10.88 s in the final, which is the second-fastest time ever for a fourth-place finish. She, however, bounced back to take the 200 m final in what was then a personal best time of 21.94 s. Having failed to qualify for the 100 m, she only competed in the 200 m and the 4 x 100 m relay at the Olympic Games.

At the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics, Veronica Campbell-Brown carried the Jamaican flag during the Athletes' Parade. She successfully defended her Olympic 200 m title in a new personal best time of 21.74 s. She competed at the 4 x 100 m relay together with Shelly-Ann Fraser, Sheri-Ann Brooks and Aleen Bailey. In the first round heats, Jamaica placed first in front of Russia, Germany and China. The Jamaican teams' time of 42.24 s was the first time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result, Jamaica qualified for the final, replacing Brooks and Bailey with Sherone Simpson and Kerron Stewart. Jamaica did not finish the race due to a mistake in the baton exchange.[2]

At the end of the 2008 season, Campbell-Brown was selected the top 200 m runner in the world and the fourth best in the 100 m (following three other Jamaicans) by Track and Field News. She also finished eighth overall in voting for the magazine's Woman of the Year.[7]

She qualified for her third World Championships by winning the 200 m national title. She beat runners-up Shelly Ann Fraser and Simone Facey with a time of 22.40 seconds in June 2009, although a toe injury had left her lacking full fitness.[8]

At the 2009 World Championships Campbell-Brown was fourth in the 100 m final behind teammates Fraser and Stewart. She then won her second World 200 m silver behind American Allyson Felix. She closed the season at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix, recording her fastest of the year (10.89) to take second behind Carmelita Jeter, who became the second fastest ever with 10.64 seconds.[9] Although Jeter beat her, Campbell-Brown was the fourth fastest 100 m sprinter overall that season.[10]

In 2010, she won her first World Indoor 60m Gold medal in a time of 7.00. She later ran the fastest time for the 200 m in 21.98 in New York. She also ran a 10.78 in Eugene, Oregon, beating Fraser-Pryce and Jeter.

In 2011 Veronica Campbell-Brown won the Jamaican athletic trials in both the 100 & 200 m and was one of the favorites for both gold medals at the world championships in Daegu. At the championships, she won the silver medal in the women's 100 m in 10.98 behind Jeter, who won in 10.90. She later won her first 200 m world title in a timer of 22.22, beating Jeter and Felix, who were second and third, respectively. In 2015, Campbell made it to the Semi and Finals of the World Championships 100 and 200m, Finishing 3rd in the 200m, which Dafne Schippers won.

In 2012, she defended her 60m World Indoor Gold medal, which she won in a time of 7.01. Later in June, Veronica qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, both at 100 m and 200 m. In the 100 m she came third behind Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce and Carmelita Jeter.[11] In the 200 m she finished just outside the medals in 4th place, 0.24 of a second outside of bronze.[12] In the 4 × 100 m relay final, she and the Jamaican team came second behind the U.S., which won in a new world record of 40.82 s.[13]

In 2014, Campbell-Brown competed at the 2014 World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland, and over the 60 m race, ending up in 5th place with a time of 7.13 s. In 2015, she competed at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China, and participated in sprint events of 100 m, 200 m, and 4 × 100 m relay—where she finished in fourth place with a time of 10.91 s, won the bronze medal with a time of 21.97 s and secured the gold with a time of 41.07 s respectively.

Campbell-Brown also for the 2016 Rio Olympics in the 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay. In the 200 m, she did not make it out of the heats and finished in 27th place with a time of 22.97 s but won the silver as part of the Jamaican team in the 4 × 100 m relay with a time of 41.36 s behind the US team, which finished with a time of 41.01 s, the second fastest time ever run for the event.

Positive doping test

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On 14 June 2013, it was reported that Campbell-Brown had tested positive for diuretics while competing at the JAAA Supreme Ventures, a Jamaican meet.[14] She was provisionally suspended from competition. Campbell-Brown denied that she had intentionally taken any banned substances.[15]

On 2 October 2013, she was cleared by the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) to resume competition. The panel said this is not one of the most serious offences, and it was appropriate that she should be given a public warning with no ban from competition. They deemed she did not use the prohibited substance for performance enhancement.[16] The substance in question—Lasix, not necessarily a performance-enhancing drug, but rather a potential masking agent for other banned substances—was contained in a cream the athlete had used for a leg injury.[17][18]

The International Association of Athletics Federations appealed this decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The court decided to clear Campbell-Brown of all doping charges as the JAAA doping procedures did not comply with required international standards.[19]

Personal life

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In 2007, Campbell married Omar Brown, a fellow Jamaican sprinter and University of Arkansas alumnus, changing her name to Campbell-Brown, a few years later she dropped the hyphen from her name, changing it to Campbell Brown. They currently live and train in Clermont, Florida. She was appointed as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in late 2009 and stated that she would use the role to promote gender equity in sport.[20]

Achievements

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Campbell-Brown's personal best of 10.76 s in the 100 m ranks her all-time top fifteen in the world (tied for 11th place) and sixth among Jamaican women. Her 200 m best (21.74 s) ranks her in the all-time top fifteen in the world. This time is the fifth best among Jamaican women. It is the tied sixth fastest time of the 21st century and was the fastest since Marion Jones's 21.62 s in Johannesburg 1998.[21] She earned a total of 46 medals (27 gold, 16 silver, 3 bronze).

Personal bests

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Event Time (seconds) Venue Date Remarks
60 metres 7.00 Doha, Qatar 14 March 2010
100 yards 9.91+ Ostrava, Czech Republic 31 May 2011 Official World Best
100 metres 10.76 Ostrava, Czech Republic 31 May 2011
200 metres 21.74 Beijing, China 21 August 2008
400 metres 52.24 Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States 22 January 2005

+ = en route to a longer distance

  • All information from IAAF Profile[1]

Competition record

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Veronica Campbell Brown at the 2009 World Championships
Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Jamaica
1996 CAC Junior Championships (U-17) San Salvador, El Salvador 1st 4 × 100 m relay 46.31
1997 CARIFTA Games (U-20) Bridgetown, Barbados 1st 4 × 100 m relay 45.27
1998 CAC Junior Championships (U-17) George Town, Cayman Islands 1st 100 m 11.72 w (2.4 m/s)
1st 4 × 100 m relay 45.35
World Junior Championships Annecy, France 17th (qf) 100 m 12.04 (wind: -0.7 m/s)
1999 CARIFTA Games (U-20) Fort-de-France, Martinique 3rd 200 m 23.84 (1.6 m/s)
World Youth Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 1st 100 m 11.49
2000 CARIFTA Games (U-20) St. George's, Grenada 2nd 100 m 11.41
1st 200 m 23.05 (1.2 m/s) CR
1st 4 × 100 m relay 44.63
World Junior Championships Santiago, Chile 1st 100m 11.12 (wind: +2.0 m/s)
1st 200m 22.87 (wind: +0.7 m/s)
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 44.05
Olympic Games Sydney, Australia 2nd 4 × 100 m relay 42.13
2001 CARIFTA Games (U-20) Bridgetown, Barbados 1st 100 m 11.32 (0.0 m/s)
1st 200 m 22.93 (−1.6 m/s) CR
1st 4 × 100 m relay 44.96
2002 Commonwealth Games Manchester, England 2nd 100 m 11.00 (1.5 m/s)
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 42.73
2004 Olympic Games Athens, Greece 3rd 100 m 10.97
1st 200 m 22.05
1st 4 × 100 m relay 41.73 NR
World Athletics Final Monaco, Monaco 1st 100 m 10.91
1st 200 m 22.64
2005 World Championships Helsinki, Finland 2nd 100 m 10.95
4th 200 m 22.38
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 41.99
World Athletics Final Monaco, Monaco 1st 100 m 10.92
2nd 200 m 22.37
2006 Commonwealth Games Melbourne, Australia 2nd 200 m 22.72
2007 World Championships Osaka, Japan 1st 100 m 11.01
2nd 200 m 22.34
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 42.01
2008 Olympic Games Beijing, China 1st 200 m 21.74 (0.6 m/s)
DNF 4 × 100 m relay
2009 World Championships Berlin, Germany 4th 100 m 10.95
2nd 200 m 22.35
2010 World Indoor Championships Doha, Qatar 1st 60 m 7.00
2011 World Championships Daegu, Korea 2nd 100 metres 10.97 (−0.4 m/s)
1st 200 metres 22.22 (−1.0 m/s)
2nd 4 x 100 metres relay 41.70 NR
2012 World Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 1st 60 m 7.01
2012 Olympic Games London, England 3rd 100 metres 10.81   
4th 200 metres 22.38   
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 41.41 NR
2014 World Indoor Championships Sopot, Poland 5th 60 m 7.13
2015 World Championships Beijing, China 4th 100 m 10.91
3rd 200 m 21.97
1st 4 × 100 m relay 41.07
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 27th (h) 200 m 22.97
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 41.36

References

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  1. ^ a b c "IAAF: Veronica CAMPBELL-BROWN - Profile". iaaf.org. Archived from the original on 19 March 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2009.
  2. ^ a b "Athlete Biography: CAMPBELL-BROWN Veronica". Beijing2008.cn. The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 25 August 2008. Retrieved 30 August 2008.
  3. ^ "2008 SUMMER OLYMPICS : Campbell-Brown wins 200-meter gold in Beijing - Veronica Campbell Brown - Zimbio". Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2008.
  4. ^ "LIFE - TIME". Archived from the original on 7 October 2014 – via time.com.
  5. ^ Carifta Games Magazine, Part 2 (PDF), Carifta Games 2011, archived from the original (PDF) on 25 April 2012, retrieved 12 October 2011
  6. ^ Carifta Games Magazine, Part 3 (PDF), Carifta Games 2011, archived from the original (PDF) on 25 April 2012, retrieved 12 October 2011
  7. ^ Track & Field News, February 2009
  8. ^ Foster, Anthony (29 June 2009). Bolt completes double; ‘Not 100%’ Veronica Campbell Brown runs 22.40 – JAM Champs, Day 3. IAAF. Retrieved 29 June 2009.
  9. ^ Yung, Jean (20 September 2009). Gay 9.69 and Jeter 10.64 at 100 m; Liu Xiang makes dazzling comeback – Shanghai Golden Grand Prix. IAAF. Retrieved on 7 October 2009.
  10. ^ 100 Metres 2009. IAAF (2 October 2009). Retrieved on 7 October 2009.
  11. ^ "London 2012 - Athletics - Women's 100 m". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  12. ^ "London 2012 - Athletics - Women's 200 m". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  13. ^ "London 2012 - Athletics - Women's 4 x 100 m relay". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  14. ^ Veronica Campbell Brown tests positive for banned substance: Jamaican news report Archived 18 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ VCB camp breaks silence, says athlete will vigorously try to clear name . Jamaica Gleaner (18 June 2013). Retrieved on 29 July 2014.
  16. ^ Veronica Campbell Brown clear to compete after failed drugs test. BBC Sport (3 October 2014). Retrieved on 29 July 2014.
  17. ^ "Veronica Campbell-Brown receives warning, no suspension from Jamaican track and field panel". nbcsports.com. 3 October 2013.
  18. ^ Ingle, Sean (3 October 2013). "Veronica Campbell-Brown clears hurdle in bid to compete again". The Guardian.
  19. ^ Veronica Campbell Brown cleared of doping due to 'deplorable' mistakes. The Guardian (15 April 2014). Retrieved on 29 July 2014.
  20. ^ Campbell Brown, Veronica (7 October 2009). Veronica Campbell Brown named Unesco Ambassador – IAAF Online Diaries. IAAF. Retrieved on 7 October 2009.
  21. ^ 200 Metres All Time. IAAF. Retrieved on 7 September 2015.
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Awards
Preceded by Jamaica Sportswoman of the Year
2004, 2005
2007–2011 		Succeeded by
Achievements
Preceded by Women's 200 m Best Year Performance
2004 		Succeeded by
Olympic Games
Preceded by Flagbearer for  Jamaica
Beijing 2008 		Succeeded by
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