Veronica Campbell-Brown

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 fellow countrywoman Elaine Thompson-Herah at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics.

Campbell Brown is one of only nine athletes to win world championships at the youth, junior, and senior level of an athletic event.

Veronica Campbell Brown Order of Distinction (born 15 May 1982) is a retired Jamaican track and field sprinter, who specialized in the 100 and 200 meters.

Campbell was born to Cecil Campbell and Pamela Bailey 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.

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.

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 Track and Field World stage.

In 2001, she was awarded the Austin Sealy Trophy for the

most outstanding athlete of the 2001 CARIFTA Games.

That year, she won 3 gold medals (100 m, 200 m, and 4 × 100 m relay) in the junior (U-20) category.

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.

At 18 years old, Campbell-Brown won the first Olympic medal of her illustrious career.

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.

At the medal ceremony, a visibly emotional Campbell Brown was brought to tears 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).

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.

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.