Campbell-Brown clocks wind-aided 10.81

Leighton Levy, Gleaner Writer

The indicators are that two-time Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown is back on track after being sidelined for more than a month with an inflamed toe.

One week before the defending 100-metre World Champion is set to take the track in the 100-metre sprint at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York, she clocked a wind-aided but still impressive 10.81 seconds to win the short sprint at a meet in Florida on Saturday. The wind reading was +3.2m/s.

As she prepares for the 12th International Amateur Athletic Federation World Athletics Championships in Berlin in August, Campbell-Brown, who gets an automatic bye into the event, missed five weeks of training because of her injury and missed several meets, including the Jamaica Invitational on May 2.

In an interview last week, she said training has been going well and that her run at the meet in Claremont was to allow her to see where she was in her perparation and work on technical elements of her race.

Equally impressive In the heats

In the heats when the wind was within the allowable +2.0-metre per second limit, Campbell-Brown clocked an equally impressive 11.02 seconds, which is among the fastest times in the world this year.

Only Jamaican Kerron Stewart (10.92 and 10.93) and American Carmelita Jeter 10.96 have run faster this year.