This veronica gold of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Jamaican track and field sprinter, who specialized in the 100 and 200 meters.
She holds personal bests of 10. 76 seconds for the 100 m and 21. 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. Campbell was born to Cecil Campbell and Pamela Bailey in Clarks Town, Trelawny, Jamaica on 15 May 1982.
In 1999, she won two gold medals, the 100 m and 4 x 100 m relay at the inaugural IAAF World Youth Championships. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. She also finished eighth overall in voting for the magazine’s Woman of the Year. 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.