Veronica Campbell-Brown - Celebrating 100m gold at 2007 Osaka World Championship

BARCELONA, Spain, CMC - Reigning Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown clocked a swift 200-metre run of 21.98 seconds and registered one of three Jamaican victories at the European Athletic Association (EAA) Permit Meeting on Saturday.
 
The outstanding Campbell-Brown crushed her field while posting a meet record and the second fastest time this year for the women's 200 metres.
 
Her Beijing Olympics bound Jamaica teammates Ricardo Chambers and Richard Phillips also won, along with a a couple of Cubans as Caribbean athletes assumed prominence at the meet.
 
Campbell-Brown, who won Olympic 200-metre gold in Athens four years ago and emerged 100-metre World Champion in Osaka last year, blew her rivals away and the American Bianca Knight was closest to her at the finish with a 22.47 clocking, followed by Cuban Roxana Diaz (22.80).
 
Only her own 21.94 win at the Jamaica Nationals last month in Kingston is faster this year.
 
Kim Collins, the St Kitts and Nevis 100-metre World Champion in Paris in 2003, appeared here for a 200-metre run and placed third in 20.53 seconds as Portugal's Nigeria-born Francis Obikwelu won the men's 200 in 20.46 seconds ahead of American Rodney Martin (20.52).
 
Chambers delivered his quickest 400-metre time of the year as he stopped the clock at 44.80 seconds, just ahead of Trinidad and Tobago's Renny Quow (44.89).

Veteran Michael Blackwood, who beat Chambers at the Jamaica Nationals three weeks ago, was fifth in 45.43
 
Phillips won the 110-metre hurdles B Race in 13.66 seconds, chased by Gregory Sedoc (13.72) of the Netherlands. Jamaican Maurice Wignall was sixth in 13.88.
 
Vonette Dixon, who clinched a spot on the Jamaica team to Beijing, clocked 12.83 for second in the 100-metre hurdles behind American LoLo Jones (12.69).
 
Cuba got their wins through Ibrahim Camejo (8.19 metres) in the men's long jump and Zulia Calatayud (1:59.16) in the women's 800 metres.
 
Former Jamaica competitor Germaine Mason, now with Britain, placed third in the men's high jump at 2.20 metres.

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