Jamaica's Campbell-Brown wins 200m sprint

Beijing: Veronica Campbell-Brown continued Jamaica's domination of the Olympic sprint events by retaining her 200m title here on Thursday.

Campbell-Brown's comfortable victory means Jamaica have won four golds, a silver and two bronzes in both the men's and women's 100m and 200m events, in a battle for supremacy with the much-vaunted US track team.

The Jamaican, who won 100m gold and 200m silver at last year's world championships in Osaka, clocked a personal best of 21.74 seconds to finish ahead of American Allyson Felix (21.93sec), who also won silver behind the Jamaican at the Athens Games four years ago.

Jamaican Kerron Stewart picked up her second medal of the Beijing Games after pipping American Muna Lee at the line in 22.00sec for bronze, following up her silver-medal showing in the 100m.

"I am very happy," said Campbell-Brown. "It's great to come out and defend my gold medal.

"It's been great to see Jamaica get a clean sweep of the sprints. Now I have to concentrate on the relays."

Campbell-Brown, running in lane four, bolted out of her blocks and immediately gained on reigning world 200m champion Felix in the lane outside her.

The 26-year-old powered through the first 50 meters, and had the psychological nudge on Felix coming around the bend.

Entering the final straight, Campbell-Brown was two metres clear of the field, with Stewart neck-and-neck with Felix for second spot.

The American battled her way past Stewart, who pipped Lee by 0.01sec on the line.

But no one could catch Campbell-Brown whose fluid style saw her coast through to the finish line.