FACTBOX: Gold winner Veronica Campbell-Brown

(Reuters) - Factbox on Veronica Campbell-Brown (Jamaica) who won the Olympic gold medal in the women's 200 meters on Thursday.

Age: 26 (date of birth: May 15, 1982)

Place of birth: Trelawny, Jamaica

Career achievements:

Gold medalist, 2007 World Championships, 100m

Silver medalist, 2007 World Championships, 200m

Silver medalist, 2007 World Championships, 4x100 relay

Silver medalist, 2005 World Championships, 100m

Silver medalist, 2005 World Championships, 4x100 relay

Previous Olympics results:

Two gold medals, 2004 Olympics, 200m and 4x100m relay

Silver medalist, 2000 Olympics, 4x100m relay

Bronze medalist, 2004 Olympics, 100m

Campbell-Brown's 200m gold medal in the 2004 Olympics meant she became the first Jamaican woman to win gold in a sprint race at the Olympics. Her husband Omar Brown was the 200m champion at the 2006 Commonwealth Games and her father Cecil Campbell was a high school sprinter.

(Compiled by Nigel Hunt; Editing by Padraic Halpin)