CAMPBELL-BROWN records yet another sub 22 time.....21.98!!!!
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09:13 07/21 2008
Campbell-Brown clocks another sub-22 in Barcelona published: Monday | July 21, 2008
Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown - File
Defending Olympic 200-metres champion Veronica Campbell-Brown ran the year's second fastest time over the distance yesterday while chalking up yet another win at the Athletics Meeting in Barcelona, Spain.
Campbell-Brown, Jamaica's women's 200-metre champion, was among four Jamaicans, who made it to the podium at the meet. She clocked 21.98 seconds finishing almost half-second ahead of American Bianca Knight (22.47) and Cuba's Roxana Diaz (22.80). Campbell-Brown also has the fastest time run this year, 21.94 seconds, set at the Jamaican national trials in late June.
Ricardo Chambers was also among the winners clocking 44.80 seconds to win the men's 400-metre run ahead of Trinidad's Reny Quow, 44.89 seconds, and the USA's Calvin Smith, 45.07 seconds. National 400-metre champion Michael Blackwood was fifth in 45.43 seconds.
In the women's 100-metre hurdles, Vonette Dixon (12.83), finished second to American champion Lolo Jones (12.69). Spain's Nnkiruka Josephine Oniya was third in 12.87.
Former Jamaica high jump representative Germaine Mason cleared 2.20 metres for third place in the men's high jump behind the Ukraine's Andriy Protsenko, 2.24 metres and Spain's Javier Merino Bermijo 2.27 metres.
Campbell-Brown clocks another sub-22 in Barcelona
published: Monday | July 21, 2008
Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown - File
Defending Olympic 200-metres champion Veronica Campbell-Brown ran the year's second fastest time over the distance yesterday while chalking up yet another win at the Athletics Meeting in Barcelona, Spain.
Campbell-Brown, Jamaica's women's 200-metre champion, was among four Jamaicans, who made it to the podium at the meet. She clocked 21.98 seconds finishing almost half-second ahead of American Bianca Knight (22.47) and Cuba's Roxana Diaz (22.80). Campbell-Brown also has the fastest time run this year, 21.94 seconds, set at the Jamaican national trials in late June.
Ricardo Chambers was also among the winners clocking 44.80 seconds to win the men's 400-metre run ahead of Trinidad's Reny Quow, 44.89 seconds, and the USA's Calvin Smith, 45.07 seconds. National 400-metre champion Michael Blackwood was fifth in 45.43 seconds.
In the women's 100-metre hurdles, Vonette Dixon (12.83), finished second to American champion Lolo Jones (12.69). Spain's Nnkiruka Josephine Oniya was third in 12.87.
Former Jamaica high jump representative Germaine Mason cleared 2.20 metres for third place in the men's high jump behind the Ukraine's Andriy Protsenko, 2.24 metres and Spain's Javier Merino Bermijo 2.27 metres.