Veronica Campbell-Brown

Veronica Campbell-Brown
Veronica Campbell-Brown 2011 in Daegu
nation	Jamaica
birthday	15th May 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Clark's Town
size	163 cm
Weight	61 kg
Career
discipline	100 m , 200 m , 4 × 100 m
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 3 × 3 × 2 × World championships 3 × 7 × 1 × Commonwealth Games 1 × 3 × 0 × Indoor world championships 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver 2000 Sydney 4 × 100 m bronze 2004 Athens 100 m gold 2004 Athens 200 m gold 2004 Athens 4 × 100 m gold 2008 Beijing 200 m bronze 2012 London 100 m silver 2012 London 4 × 100 m silver 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4 × 100 m  World championships silver 2005 Helsinki 100 m silver 2005 Helsinki 4 × 100 m gold 2007 Osaka 100 m silver 2007 Osaka 200 m silver 2007 Osaka 4 × 100 m silver 2009 Berlin 200 m silver 2011 Daegu 100 m gold 2011 Daegu 200 m silver 2011 Daegu 4 × 100 m gold 2015 Beijing 4 × 100 m bronze 2015 Beijing 200 m  Commonwealth Games silver 2002 Manchester 100 m silver 2006 Melbourne 200 m silver 2014 Glasgow 100 m gold 2014 Glasgow 4 × 100 m  Indoor world championships gold 2010 Doha 60 m gold 2012 Istanbul 60 m
last change: September 8, 2016

Veronica Campbell-Brown (born Campbell ; born May 15, 1982 in Clark's Town , Trelawny Parish ) is a Jamaican sprinter . She is a multiple Jamaican champion, Olympic champion and world champion in the 100 and 200 meter run .

biography

Campbell, who has nine siblings, studied in the United States at the University of Arkansas , where she graduated in 2006. In the athletics -Mannschaft the University she was the only sprinter.

At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, she won a silver medal with the Jamaican 4 x 100 meter relay at the age of only 18. Four years later in Athens in 2004 , she first came third in the 100-meter race and then won the 200-meter race. With the 4 x 100 meter relay she became Olympic champion for the second time, along with Aleen Bailey , Tayna Lawrence and Sherone Simpson . As an Olympic champion, she was also one of the favorites over 200 meters at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005 . However, the title went to Allyson Felix (USA), while Campbell was only fourth. Before that, however, she had already won the silver medal behind the American Lauryn Williams over 100 meters , and with the Jamaican 4 x 100 meter relay she won the silver medal behind the US relay on the penultimate day of the competitions.

At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, Campbell won the 100 meter title in a time of 11.01 s and thus beat the Americans Lauryn Williams (11.01 s) and Carmelita Jeter (11.02 s). Over 200 meters and with the 4 x 100 meter relay, she won silver. In the national elimination for the Olympic Games in 2008 she was only fourth over 100 meters despite a time of 10.88 s, but won over 200 meters in her personal best of 21.94 s. In the final of the Beijing Games , she won with a new personal best of 21.74 s and thus won the gold medal. At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, she was fourth in the 100 meter final. Over the 200 meters she won the silver medal with a time of 22.35 s.

On March 14, 2010, she won the gold medal in the 60-meter run at the World Indoor Championships in Doha in a time of 7.00 s. At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, she won the silver medal in the 100-meter run with a time of 10.97 s. Over 200 meters she won the gold medal with 22.22 seconds. Another silver medal at these world championships, she won together with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce , Kerron Stewart and Sherone Simpson in the 4 x 100 meter relay competition with a time of 41.70 s. At the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul in 2012 , she managed to defend her world title over 60 meters. She won the final in a time of 7.01 s. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 , Campbell-Brown won the bronze medal in the 100-meter sprint and in the final together with Fraser-Pryce, Simpson and Stewart with a time of 41.41 s the silver medal in the 4-by-100-meter -Season.

At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing , she won the bronze medal over 100 meters and the gold medal in the sprint relay.

Veronica Campbell is 1.63 m tall and has a competition weight of 61 kg. At the end of 2007 she married her sprinter colleague Omar Brown . Between 2004 and 2011, she was named Jamaica's Sportswoman of the Year seven times . In 2008 she was awarded the Order of Distinction (Commander Class).

Suspected doping

In May 2013, Campbell-Brown tested positive for a diuretic , which, among other things, can act as a masking agent for banned substances. She was initially threatened with a two-year ban. In June, the world association IAAF classified Campbell-Brown's offense as minor, in October the Jamaican National Athletics Association JAAA only issued a public warning against Campbell-Brown and granted her the right to start future competitions because the substance was not used Performance enhancement had been used. The IAAF referred the case to the International Court of Sport (CAS), which acquitted it in February 2014. It was not until April that the CAS justified its decision by stating that anti-doping regulations had been violated during the doping control. The person responsible is said to have done this knowingly; the samples could have been contaminated with sweat or water.

Personal best

• 100 m: 10.76 s, May 31, 2011, Ostrava
• 200 m: 21.74 s, August 21, 2008, Beijing
• 400 m: 52.25 s, March 26, 2011, Orlando
• 60 m (hall): 7.00 s, March 14, 2010, Doha

Web links

Commons : Veronica Campbell-Brown  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Veronica Campbell-Brown's website
• Veronica Campbell-Brown in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF: Campbell-Brown blasts back from dash upset to 200m world lead - Jamaican Champs, Final Day ( memento of July 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), June 30, 2008
2. ↑ HDsports.at: Gold hat trick for Great Britain & heptathlon scandal . 4th August 2012
3. ↑ London 2012 official website ( Memento of December 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
4. ^ IAAF: Osaka near miss motivates Campbell Brown for Olympic double , December 10, 2007
5. ^ The Gleaner Honor Awards ( Memento December 10, 2008 on the Internet Archive ), Jamaica Gleaner October 24, 2008. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
6. ↑ spiegel.de: Athletics: Sprint star Campbell-Brown under suspicion of doping , accessed on June 15, 2013.
7. ↑ Sprint Olympic champion Campbell-Brown warned ( Memento from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Handelsblatt online from October 3, 2013. Retrieved on October 3, 2013.
8. ↑ http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/24/us-athletics-campbellbrown-idUSBREA1N12920140224 Reuters
9. ↑ spiegel.de: Contaminated doping test: Cas justifies Campbell-Brown's surprise acquittal , April 15, 2014