Juliet Campbell (athlete)

Juliet Campbell ( born March 17, 1970 in Kingston) is a former Jamaican athlete. The versatile sprinter entered individually, especially in the 200 -meter run in appearance, reinforced at international championships as well as the regular 4-by- 100-meter and 4 x 400 -meter relay teams of Jamaica.

Your first international commitment to Jamaica she had at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. With the 4 x 400 meters relay she finished fifth in the 400 - meter race she reached the quarter-final round. In both competitions, they also launched at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart in 1993. With the season they finished fourth, seventh in the 400m. However, the best result they achieved with the 4 x 100 - meter relay. Along with Michelle Freeman, Nikole Mitchell, and Merlene Ottey, she won the bronze medal in 41.94 s behind the teams from Russia and the United States.

At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta Campbell missed with the 4 x 400 - meter relay in fourth place again just a medal. In the 400 - meter race she came up against in the semi-finals. Also the semi-finals she reached the 200 - meter race at the IAAF 1997 World Championships in Athens. Their first international single medal she won a year later at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. About 200 meters she finished in 22.79 s place behind Nova Peris - Kneebone. With the 4 x 100 - meter relay Campbell took another silver medal.

In 1999, she took over 200 m at the World Indoor Championships in Maebashi fifth place at the World Championships in Seville eighth. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney she failed over the same distance in the quarter-final round. Unequal successful she was at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 2001 in Lisbon. There, she succeeded in 22.64 s the title win in the 200 -meter run. In the 4 x 400 - meter relay team, she won the silver medal together with Charmaine Howell, Catherine Scott and Sandie Richards.

At the 2002 Commonwealth Games was the 200 m in 22.54 s behind Debbie Ferguson Second. About the same distance she took her last international medal at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 2003. She was counted in s 22.81 as third place behind Muriel Hurtis and Anastasia Kapatschinskaja after the original winner Michelle Collins was disqualified for doping.

Juliet Campbell is 1,76 m tall and had a competition weight of 62 kg.

Bests

  • Free air: 200 m: 22.50 s, August 25, 1999, Seville
  • 400 m: 50.11 s, July 3, 1993, Kingston
  • 60 m: 7.16 s, February 17, 2002, Birmingham
  • 200 m: 22.64 s, March 10, 2001, Lisbon
  • 400 m: 51.78 s, February 19, 1998, Stockholm
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