At 18 years old, Campbell-Brown won her first Olympic medal. She competed at the
2000 Summer Olympics in the 4 × 100m relay along with
Tayna Lawrence,
Beverly McDonald,
Merlene Frazer and
sprint veteran and Olympic legend,
Merlene Ottey where the team finished second in the finals in a time of 42.13 seconds behind Caribbean neighbors,
Bahamas. Campbell Brown had shown herself to be a promising athlete as a junior, having won at the junior level and at Jamaica's yearly Boys and Girls Championship for her high school, Vere Technical High. The Championship has been credited as the engineer behind Jamaica's success on the Track and Field World stage. At the age of 22, Campbell-Brown represented Jamaica at the 2004 Athens Olympics. She competed in both the 100 m and 200 m. In the finals of the 100 m, she placed third. Campbell Brown later competed in the 200 m finals, a race American
Allyson Felix was favored to win. VCB went on to decimate the field in the 200 m finals. She ran a blistering curve and held her form down the final stretch to become the first Jamaican and Caribbean woman in the history of the Olympic games to win a sprint Olympic title. A visibly emotional Campbell Brown was brought to tears at the medal ceremony as her national anthem was played in the stadium and flag hoisted. Campbell-Brown then teamed up with
Aleen Bailey,
Tayna Lawrence, and
Sherone Simpson in the finals of the 4 × 100 m. VCB ran a scintillating anchor leg as Jamaica went on to win the women's 4 × 100 m. Jamaica created history as it was the first time Jamaica had won the 4 × 100 m relay at the Olympics. In August 2005, Campbell won the silver medal in the 100 m at the
2005 World Championships in Athletics. She won another silver medal in the 4 × 100 m relay (together with
Daniele Browning, Aleen Bailey and Sherone Simpson). At the
2007 World Championships, Campbell won three medals, a gold in the 100 m, silver in the 200 m (second to Felix) and silver in the 4 × 100 m relay. At the 2008 Jamaican Olympic trials, she finished fourth in the 100 m, thereby missing the qualifying requirement to automatically make the
Jamaican Olympic roster for that event. She clocked 10.88 s in the final, which is the second-fastest time ever for a fourth-place finish. She, however, bounced back to take the 200 m final in what was then a personal best time of 21.94 s. Having failed to qualify for the 100 m, she only competed in the 200 m and the 4 × 100 m relay at the Olympic Games. At the opening ceremony of the
2008 Olympics, Veronica Campbell-Brown carried the Jamaican flag during the Athletes' Parade. She successfully defended her Olympic 200 m title in a new personal best time of 21.74 s. She competed at the 4 × 100 m relay together with
Shelly-Ann Fraser,
Sheri-Ann Brooks and Aleen Bailey. In the first round heats, Jamaica placed first in front of
Russia,
Germany and
China. The Jamaican teams' time of 42.24 s was the first time overall out of sixteen participating nations. With this result, Jamaica qualified for the final, replacing Brooks and Bailey with Sherone Simpson and
Kerron Stewart. Jamaica did not finish the race due to a mistake in the baton exchange. She qualified for her third World Championships by winning the 200 m national title. She beat runners-up Shelly Ann Fraser and
Simone Facey with a time of 22.40 seconds in June 2009, although a toe injury had left her lacking full fitness. At the
2009 World Championships Campbell-Brown was fourth in the
100 m final behind teammates Fraser and Stewart. She then won her second World 200 m silver behind American Allyson Felix. She closed the season at the
Shanghai Golden Grand Prix, recording her fastest of the year (10.89) to take second behind
Carmelita Jeter, who became the second fastest ever with 10.64 seconds. Although Jeter beat her, Campbell-Brown was the fourth fastest 100 m sprinter overall that season. In 2010, she won her first World Indoor 60 m Gold medal in a time of 7.00. She later ran the fastest time for the 200 m in 21.98 in New York. She also ran a 10.78 in Eugene, Oregon, beating Fraser-Pryce and Jeter. In 2011 Veronica Campbell-Brown won the Jamaican athletic trials in both the 100 & 200 m and was one of the favorites for both gold medals at the World Championships in Daegu. At the championships, she won the silver medal in the women's 100 m in 10.98 behind Jeter, who won in 10.90. She later won her first 200 m world title in a timer of 22.22, beating Jeter and Felix, who were second and third, respectively. In 2015, Campbell made it to the Semi and Finals of the World Championships 100 and 200 m, Finishing 3rd in the 200 m, which Dafne Schippers won. In 2012, she defended her 60 m World Indoor Gold medal, which she won in a time of 7.01. Later in June, Veronica qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, both at 100 m and 200 m. In the 100 m she came third behind Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce and
Carmelita Jeter. In the 200 m she finished just outside the medals in 4th place, 0.24 of a second outside of bronze. In the 4 × 100 m relay final, she and the Jamaican team came second behind the U.S., which won in a new world record of 40.82 s. In 2014, Campbell-Brown competed at the 2014 World Indoor Championships in
Sopot, Poland, and over the 60 m race, ending up in 5th place with a time of 7.13 s. In 2015, she competed at the
2015 World Championships in Athletics in
Beijing, China, and participated in sprint events of 100 m, 200 m, and 4 × 100 m relay—where she finished in fourth place with a time of 10.91 s, won the bronze medal with a time of 21.97 s and secured the gold with a time of 41.07 s respectively. Campbell-Brown also qualified for the
2016 Rio Olympics in the 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay. In the 200 m, she did not make it out of the heats and finished in 27th place with a time of 22.97 s but won the silver as part of the Jamaican team in the 4 × 100 m relay with a time of 41.36 s behind the US team, which finished with a time of 41.01 s, the second fastest time ever run for the event. ==Positive doping test==