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July 6, 2015
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McLeod makes pro debut, VCB for 100m in Budapest

HUBERT LAWRENCE, STAR Writer

Sprint queen Veronica Campbell- Brown will continue her preparation for the World Championships with races in two upcoming meets in Europe.

Campbell-Brown will touch the track in Hungary tomorrow and in Switzerland on July 14 as she tunes up for the Worlds.

Campbell-Brown will first touch the track at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial in Budapest in the 100m tomorrow. She will continue her season in Switzerland with a race over 200m in Lucerne on July 14.

She is hoping to build on a seasonal best of 22.68 and her thirdplace finish at the Nationals behind Elaine Thompson and Sherone Simpson.

The 2004 and 2008 Olympic 200 winner was World Champion in the same event in 2011.

In a recent prediction by the USA publication Track & Field News, Campbell-Brown was not mentioned as an individual World Championship medal winner. She has, however, sprinted her way to the podium in every World or Olympic championships she has attended.

Last year, she topped the Diamond League standings in the 100m and took the silver in the Commonwealth Games.

Track & Field News ranked her as the number one 100m runner in the world for 2014 after a campaign in which she clocked a season’s best of 10.86 seconds and won in Beijing, at the Nationals, in Zurich and at the Continental Cup.

In Budapest, Omar McLeod, the US Collegiate and Jamaican 110m hurdles champion, will make his professional debut.

Among his rivals will be Olympic champion Aries Merritt of the USA. Merritt set a world record of 12.80 seconds in 2012. McLeod ran a personal best of 12.97 to win the Nationals.

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