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Campbell burning up the track
By ANTHONY FOSTER, Freelance Writer Veronica Campbell - FileJAMAICA'S COMMONWEALTH GAMES 100 metres silver medallist Veronica Campbell continued her exceptional early season form while establishing meet records at the weekend's Southeastern Conference Championships in the United States.In the 200m final, Campbell, representing University of Arkansas, not only ran a world leading 22.41 but in the process rewrote two records, Track (23.96) and Regional (23.96) to beat top Collegiate athlete Muna Lee of LSU (22.98) and LaShauntea Moore, also of Arkansas (23.50). Campbell's time makes her this year's fastest woman over 200m ahead of Americans Lauryn Williams (22.46), LaTasha Colander (22.50) and Torri Edwards (22.66) and local-based Vere Technical schoolgirl Simone Facey (22.71). Dominant form The former Vere athlete, who had earlier ran 22.85 in the preliminaries was also in dominant form in the 100m. However, her time of 11.12 to beat Lee (11.25) in the final was slower than the 11.10 she did in the preliminary round. These times have placed Campbell among the fastest athletes over the sprints this year. Her times places her behind Americans Williams (11.01), Marion Jones (11.04) and Torri Edwards (11.05). Jamaica's Sherone Simpson (11.11) is also among the best, listed at fifth. A former national champion, Campbell was also apart of Arkansas' 4x100m team, which finished second in 44.09 behind LSU who clocked (43.15). Campbell's 20 individual points helped Arkansas to 124 points and championships honours over LSU (114) and Georgia (101.5). Another Jamaica, Omar Brown, finished second in the men's 100m dash in 10.29. He was beaten by his Arkansas teammate Tyson Gay (10.28). Brown did not start in the 200m, this after recorded the second fastest time of 20.83 going into the final. Former St. Jago athlete Andrea Bliss finished fifth in the women's 100m hurdles. Running for Florida University, Bliss was timed in 13.22 behind winner Lolo Jones of LSU (12.83). Bliss (57.59) also finished out of medal contention in the 400m hurdles, finishing fifth as her Florida team ended with 79 points for fifth place. Novlene Williams, also a former student of St. Jago, was fourth in the women's 400m (51.48) won by LSU's Hazel-Ann Regis in a Regional record (50.64).
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