CampbellLISBON, CANA:
JAMAICAN Juliet Campbell, now enjoying world champion status, is eyeing medal success again at the IAAF World Outdoor Championship this summer in Canada.
Campbell powered to an impressive 200 metre gold medal success at the World Indoor championship last weekend for her first ever individual medal at a global meet.
She recognises winning outdoors this summer will be tough, since the formidable American Marion Jones and other top stars who missed the indoor season should be among her rivals.
"I am not saying getting a medal in Edmonton is out of my reach because it's definitely not," Campbell said on the CANASport radio programme yesterday.
"I am in the best shape I have been in many many years and I am really looking forward to the world championship," she added.
Campbell, who turns 31 years old on Saturday, whipped American Latasha Jenkins and Natalya Vinogradova-Safronnikova of Belarus and posted a 2001 world best 22.64 seconds in her win Saturday night.
The part-time model has a sprint relay bronze from the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart and appears now to have her ever best shot at an outdoor individual medal at the August 3-12 championship.
"I am in very good shape and I will be going back to training camp in the near future," said Campbell, who was eliminated in the second round at the Sydney Olympics last year complaining of severe sinus problems.
Campbell, a former US Collegiate 400-metre champion, also helped Jamaica win silver the 1600-metre relay on Sunday, increasing their medal haul to five, a total bettered only by the United States (16) and Russia (14)
