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VC back in training after hamstring niggle
BY PAUL A REID Observer writer
Friday, July 17, 2009
Defending 100m world champion Veronica Campbell Brown is back in training after a hamstring injury while running a season best 10.96 seconds to win the IAAF Athens Grand Prix Tsiklitiria 2009 meeting at the Olympic Stadium in Greece on Monday.
Campbell Brown... will have full schedule in Berlin
Campbell Brown grabbed the back of her thigh after running the third fastest time by a Jamaican woman over the distance this year behind Kerron Stewart's 10.75 seconds and Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser's 10.88.
Claude Bryan, Campbell Brown's agent, told the Observer from Greece yesterday that Campbell Brown, who is seeking to add the World Championships 200m title to her back-to-back Olympic titles, was back in training yesterday morning after an early session with the doctor "went well".
He previously said the injury was not serious and it was later confirmed to be a cramp.
At the time, Campbell Brown was quoted as saying, "I am very satisfied with my performance. My injury is not serious. It looks like a cramp," adding there would be sufficient time to get 100 per cent fit in time for the start of the World Championships in Berlin, Germany.
In Athens, American Carmelita Jeter, the only American in the top four in the world so far, finished second in 11.02, with Bahamian veteran Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie finishing third in 11.04.
Campbell Brown will have a full schedule in the World Championships in Berlin which starts in a month's time as she is down to run both 100m and 200m, plus the relays, which the Jamaican team is expected to win.
The former Vere Technical star captured the 100m and was second to the American Allyson Felix in the 200m at the last World Championships held in Osaka, Japan, in 2007.
This is the second injury for the two-time Olympic 200m champion and triple medallist at the previous IAAF World Championships after being sidelined for five weeks earlier this season with an infected toe on her left foot.
That injury, which was revealed in late April, set back her training routine and caused her to miss two important meets - the Jamaica International Invitational and the Adidas Classic.
She however rebounded by retaining her 200m title at the Jamaican Trials just over two weeks ago after three warm-up meets, including the Reebok Classic in New York and two local meets in central Florida, where she is based.
VC back in training after hamstring niggle
BY PAUL A REID Observer writer
Friday, July 17, 2009
Defending 100m world champion Veronica Campbell Brown is back in training after a hamstring injury while running a season best 10.96 seconds to win the IAAF Athens Grand Prix Tsiklitiria 2009 meeting at the Olympic Stadium in Greece on Monday.
Campbell Brown... will have full schedule in Berlin Campbell Brown grabbed the back of her thigh after running the third fastest time by a Jamaican woman over the distance this year behind Kerron Stewart's 10.75 seconds and Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser's 10.88.
Claude Bryan, Campbell Brown's agent, told the Observer from Greece yesterday that Campbell Brown, who is seeking to add the World Championships 200m title to her back-to-back Olympic titles, was back in training yesterday morning after an early session with the doctor "went well".
He previously said the injury was not serious and it was later confirmed to be a cramp.
At the time, Campbell Brown was quoted as saying, "I am very satisfied with my performance. My injury is not serious. It looks like a cramp," adding there would be sufficient time to get 100 per cent fit in time for the start of the World Championships in Berlin, Germany.
In Athens, American Carmelita Jeter, the only American in the top four in the world so far, finished second in 11.02, with Bahamian veteran Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie finishing third in 11.04.
Campbell Brown will have a full schedule in the World Championships in Berlin which starts in a month's time as she is down to run both 100m and 200m, plus the relays, which the Jamaican team is expected to win.
The former Vere Technical star captured the 100m and was second to the American Allyson Felix in the 200m at the last World Championships held in Osaka, Japan, in 2007.
This is the second injury for the two-time Olympic 200m champion and triple medallist at the previous IAAF World Championships after being sidelined for five weeks earlier this season with an infected toe on her left foot.
That injury, which was revealed in late April, set back her training routine and caused her to miss two important meets - the Jamaica International Invitational and the Adidas Classic.
She however rebounded by retaining her 200m title at the Jamaican Trials just over two weeks ago after three warm-up meets, including the Reebok Classic in New York and two local meets in central Florida, where she is based.