Jamaican favourite Veronica Campbell powered her way to take the Olympic Games women's 200 metres gold medal in 20.05 seconds, the fastest time in the event since 1999. Campbell became the first Jamaican and Caribbean woman ever to win an Olympic sprint gold when she captured the 200 metres at the 2004 Athens Olympics yesterday. American teenager Allyson Felix won silver and registered a world junior record of 22.18sec with Bahamas sprint queen Debbie Ferguson taking bronze in 22.30sec. Campbell, the bronze medallist from the 100m and the fastest qualifier for the final, led from start to finish powering round the bend with a metre lead with only Felix able to stay with her. But in the last 40 metres there was only one winner as the 22-year-old powered home to give Jamaica its first women's athletics gold medal since Deon Hemmings took the 400m hurdles in 1996. Felix easily held on for second in what was only the 18-year-old's second major championships while Ferguson, the Commonwealth champion at 100 and 200m, clocked a season’s best taking third ahead of Jamaican Aleen Bailey. In the men’s 200 semi-final Jamaica’s Asafa Powell qualified with a time of 20.56. In the baseball, gold went to Cuba following their 6-2 win against Australia. In other events Cuba’s Anier Garcia, Yoel Hernandez and Yuniel Hernandez, Jamaica’s Richard Phillips, Maurice Wignall and Christopher Pinnock and Haiti's Dudley Dorival all qualified in the metres 110 metre hurdles. SOURCE: BBCCARIBBEAN.COM