Veronica Campbell Brown
Jamaican sprinter (born 1982) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[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 fellow countrywoman Elaine Thompson-Herah at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics.[3] Campbell Brown is one of only nine athletes 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.