HAVING won 46 medals in her illustrious career, Veronica Campbell Brown was surprisingly written off for a medal at the 2015 IAAF World Championships. But just like the true champion she is, the 33-year-old defied the odds and secured a fantastic 200m bronze medal.

In fact, at the conclusion of the championships, Campbell Brown earned two medals as she led off the gold medal-winning 4x100m relay team and has taken her tally to 48 medals, inclusive of 28 gold, 16 silver and four bronze, earned along the way from the junior ranks through to her senior career.

But despite not winning an individual gold in Biejing, the bronze medal captured by Campbell Brown might be one of the sweetest for her, considering that it came against great odds.

Having been there and done that, Campbell Brown, the seven-time Olympic medallist, grabbed her 11th World Championships medal running a superb curve from lane two in a splendid 21.97 seconds — her third-fastest time ever behind her lifetime best of 21.74 seconds done at the 2008 Olympic Games.

The former Vere Technical star was running her fastest time in seven years in what is said to be the greatest 200m women’s race in history. Three athletes dipped below the 22-second barrier as Dutchwoman Daphne Schippers won in 21.63 seconds ahead of Elaine Thompson of Jamaica in 21.66 seconds.

In the semi-finals, Campbell Brown veered out of her lane five and finished the race in lane six and a lot of persons thought she had lost her bearings. But being the true champion, she produced one of her best 200m run in the final, which was the third-fastest of the year, for yet another medal.

“I was happy I was able to put it together at the right time because my season has been so up and down,” said Campbell Brown.

She just missed a third medal by .05 seconds when she finished fourth in the 100m at the World Championships in 10.91 seconds. American Torrie Bowie was third with 10.86 in a race won by Campbell Brown’s compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in 10.76.

Campbell Brown, who is one of only nine athletes to win world titles at the Youth, Junior and Senior levels, said she believed in her ability to deliver at the highest stage. When she can no longer do that she would retire.

Earlier in the year, Campbell Brown was a member of two medal-winning relay teams at the IAAF World Relays in the Bahamas. She anchored Jamaica to victory in the 4x100m by outsprinting Carmelita Jeter on final leg and was apart of the silver medal-winning 4x100m relay.

Campbell-Brown, who has won the RJR National Sportswoman of the Year award on five occasions — in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011 — will be hard-pressed to secure her sixth title this year in what has turned out to be another outstanding season for Jamaican women in sports.