World's fastest women add two more medals to Jamaica's standings in Beijing
From left: Kerron Stewart, Allyson Felix, Veronica Campbell Brown
Thurday August 21st, 2008: Beijing, China - Entering today's 100m womens final as the favorite, Veronica Campbell-Brown did not disappoint, edging out USA's Allyson Felix with a personal best time of 21.74 seconds. Felix, who also fell second to Campbell-Brown at the Athens Games in 2004 finished with a time of 21.93 seconds.
Campbell-Brown's team mate Kerron Stewart captured the bronze medal, to add to her silver from the 100m race on Sunday.
Jamaica now stands 11th (tied with Ukraine) for most gold medals (5) at the 2008 Olympics and is likely to enter the top 10 within the next few days with the mens and womens relays coming up.
Today's race puts Jamaica's medal tally to 9 (18th overall in the standings; 5 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze). See http://cbc.stats.com/olympics_medals.asp for full stats.
Video Clip of todays race: myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=41235925
For more on Veronica Campbell-Brown visit: http://www.veronicacampbellbrown.com/
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