Veronica Campbell Brown
Veronica Campbell Brown (born 15 May 1982) is a retired
Jamaican track and field sprinter, who specialized in the
100 and
200 meters. 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. 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 Championship titles at the youth, junior, and senior levels 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.
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