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Veronica Campbell-Brown: “I’ve Been Waiting Five-Years For This Day”
Posted by staff on July 3, 2010 5 Comments
By Gary Smith
Veronica Campbell-Brown was at a loss for words following her dominant performance which saw her winning the women’s 100 metres dash at the Prefontaine Classic – IAAF Diamond League series meeting in Eugene, on Saturday.
The two-time Olympic 200m champion won the shorter discipline of the sprint event in 10.78seconds to improve her personal best from 10.85 – set five years-ago – and the Jamaican said she has been waiting a long time for this moment.
Campbell-Brown parted company with long-time coach and the man who guided her to back-to-back Olympic Games 200 metres gold medals, Lance Brauman last October to work with Atlanta based-coach Anthony Carpenter, and the move seemed to have been an effective one.
With a huge smile on her face Campbell-Brown said: “I am so excited. I have been waiting five-years for this day to faster than 10.85 and the day has finally come.
“I am so overwhelmed with joy right now.”
There was never any doubt that the 28-year-old 2007 world championships 100m champion had the speed to dominate the event, but she struggled with her starts.
However, since joining Carpenter training camp she improved that phase of her race significantly – as she used that start to win her first ever World Indoor 60m title earlier this year. It was also that same reaction that set up her victory over a very strong field in Oregon Saturday.
“I am so happy,” she said, reflecting on her win over the world-class field.
She went to add: “I have a great team and my coach and I have been working on my start and I think it’s coming together.
“I am so thankful to God right now.
“Right now I am just going to keep training hard and see if I can keep lowering that time.”
Campbell-Brown got the better of fellow countrywomen Shelly Ann Fraser, the Olympic and world gold medal winner – who was second in a year best time of 10.82, with American Carmelita Jeter taking third, also in a 2010 best of 10.83.
100 Metres – Women Wind: +0.8 m/s
1 Campbell-Brown , Veronica JAM 10.78
2 Fraser , Shelly-Ann JAM 10.82
3 Jeter , Carmelita USA 10.83
4 Moore , LaShauntea USA 10.99
5 Okagbare , Blessing NGR 11.03
6 Simpson , Sherone JAM 11.14
7 Harrigan , Tahesia IVB 11.16
8 Sturrup , Chandra BAH 11.19
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