Veronica Campbell Brown

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Veronica gave Jamaica its first Olympic 200m gold medal.

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At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she ran the 200m in 21.74 seconds (the fastest time in a decade) and became the second woman in history to win two consecutive Olympic 200 m events, after Bärbel Wöckel of Germany did so at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics.

Campbell-Brown's personal best of 10.85 s in the 100 m ranks her sixth among Jamaican women. Her 200 m best (21.74 s) ranks her in the all-time top ten in the world. This time is the third best among Jamaican women. It is the fastest time of the 21st Century, and the fastest since Marion Jones's 21.62 s in Johannesburg 1998.

See her full profile at Wikipedia.

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