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  1. Jul 26, 2024 · With the 2024 Paris Olympics on the horizon, two-time Olympic 200m gold medalist Veronica Campbell-Brown has extended her heartfelt best wishes to participating athletes. Campbell-Brown, the most decorated Jamaican female athlete, took to Instagram to share her support and encouragement for the athletes.

  2. Aug 11, 2024 · Jamaican sprinting legend Veronica Campbell Brown, one of the most decorated athletes in the history of track and field, was recently honored with a series of prestigious awards at a ceremony in New York.

  3. Aug 9, 2024 · Veronica Campbell Brown CD, OLY 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 fellow countrywoman ...

  4. Aug 10, 2024 · That same Olympics, Jamaicans Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Veronica Campbell-Brown won gold in the women’s 100- and 200-meter races.

  5. Aug 12, 2024 · Veronica Campbell-Brown won the gold medal in the 200 meters race. Veronica Campbell-Brown represented Jamaica for the third consecutive Olympic Games.

  6. Aug 10, 2024 · Historically, short-distances have been the U.S. domain. That changed at the Beijing Games 2008, when Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt collected world records and gold in the 100- and 200-meter sprints. That same Olympics, Jamaicans Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Veronica Campbell-Brown won gold in the women’s 100- and 200-meter races.

  7. Aug 6, 2024 · The Jamaican team was headed by 2015 World medallists Elaine Thompson and Veronica Campbell-Brown (the latter going for her third Olympic title). The 2012 Olympic runner-up Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce did not compete and focused on the Olympic 100 m finals.