Veronica Campbell Brown

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Veronica Campbell-Brown

Veronica Campbell-Brown at the 2011 World Championships
Personal information
Birth name	Veronica Campbell
Born	(1982-05-15) 15 May 1982 (age 42) Clarks Town, Trelawny, Jamaica
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Weight	61 kg (134 lb)[1]
Sport
Sport	Track and Field
Event	Sprints
College team	Arkansas 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 2004 Athens 200 m 2004 Athens 4×100 m relay 2008 Beijing 200 m 2000 Sydney 4×100 m relay 2012 London 4×100 m relay 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m relay 2004 Athens 100 m 2012 London 100 m World Championships 2007 Osaka 100 m 2011 Daegu 200 m 2015 Beijing 4×100 m relay 2005 Helsinki 100 m 2005 Helsinki 4×100 m relay 2007 Osaka 200 m 2007 Osaka 4×100 m relay 2009 Berlin 200 m 2011 Daegu 100 m 2011 Daegu 4×100 m relay 2015 Beijing 200 m Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow 4×100 m relay 2002 Manchester 100 m 2002 Manchester 4 × 100 m relay 2006 Melbourne 200 m 2014 Glasgow 100 m World Indoor Championships 2010 Doha 60 m 2012 Istanbul 60 m Continental Cup 2014 Marrakech 100 m 2014 Marrakech 4x100 m relay Representing Americas World Athletics Final 2004 Monaco 100 m 2004 Monaco 200 m 2005 Monaco 100 m 2005 Monaco 200 m World Relay Championships 2015 Nassau 4×100 m relay 2015 Nassau 4×200 m relay World Junior Championships 2000 Santiago 100 m 2000 Santiago 200 m 2000 Santiago 4×100 m relay CAC Championships 1998 George Town 100 m 1998 George Yown 4x100 m relay 2000 San Juan 100 m 2000 San Juan 4x100 m relay Carifta Games 1997 Bridgetown 4x100 m relay 2000 St. George's 200 m 2000 St. George's 4x100 m relay 2001 Bridgetown 100 m 2001 Bridgetown 200 m 2001 Bridgetown 4x100 m relay 2000 St. Georges's 100 m 1999 Fort-de-France 200 m World Youth Championships 1999 Bydgoszcz 100 m 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.