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Campbell shifts gear to 200m
published: Saturday | February 18, 2006


CAMPBELL

World leaders Veronica Campbell and Lacena Golding-Clarke head Jamaica's entries at today's Norwich Union Indoor Grand Prix meeting in Birmingham, England.

Olympic 200m champion Campbell, who has been dominating the 60m dash for which she shares the world-leading mark with Russian Mariya Bolikova, 7.04 seconds, will make her first appearance this season in her pet event over 200m.

Golding-Clarke, on the other hand, will be looking to continue her impressive season in the 60m hurdles.

Juliet Campbell, the 2001 indoor world champion and Peta-Gaye Dowdie, Jamaica's 100m champion in 1999 and 2000, will also line-up in the field against Campbell.

Dowdie, a former national 100m champion, has already recorded 23.43 seconds this season, but the Campbell's ­ Veronica and Juliet ­ are yet to run that distance.

In the women's 60m hurdles, Golding-Clarke, who holds the world-leading time, an impressive 7.83 seconds recorded in Leipzig last weekend, will take on a top-class field.

Jamaica's world outdoor silver medallist Delloreen Ennis-London, Americans LoLo Jones and Anjanette Kirkland, and home favourite Sarah Claxton, will also race in the event.

In the men's 200m, Jamaica's indoor record-holder Omar Brown will face a strong field which includes American Wallace Spearmon who smashed the men's 300m record (31.88) last weekend, and his US counterpart John Capel, the 2003 world outdoor champion in Paris, France.

battle for top honours

In the men's 400m, Davian Clarke, the second fastest this season with 46.31, is expected to battle for top honours with Great Britain's Robert Tobin, who has the second fastest time behind American Xavier Carter, 45.90.

Kenia Sinclair and Mardrea Hyman were so dedicated in their last showing in Boston that the organisers in Birmingham have asked the Jamaicans to dictate the pace in the women's 3000m, a race in which Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba challenges the world record.

Elva Goulbourne will look to improve her season-best 6.55m leap when she lifts off against the Bahamas' Jackie Edwards (6.33), Britain's Kelly Sotherton (6.53) and United States' Grace Upshaw (6.43) in the women's long jump.

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