NATIONAL SPRINT champions Asafa Powell and Veronica Campbell, head a strong Jamaican contingent of 45 track and field athletes for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece this summer.
Powell, the national 100m record holder, heads the list of 23 men while female sprint double champion Campbell tops the 22 women.
Also including in the squad are World Junior 200m record holder Usain Bolt and Lorraine Fenton. Both missed last weekend's National Championships because of injury. Bolt is scheduled to compete at this month's World Junior Championships in Italy while Fenton has until August 4 to prove her fitness.
Also included are veteran 400m runner Sandie Richards who will be attending her fifth Olympics, national shot put record holder Kimberli Barrett (18.28), the first shot putter to represent Jamaica at an Olympics and James Beckford who won the long jump silver eight years ago in Atlanta.
Former national 110m hurdles record Christopher Pinnock (14.29) and former 100m champion Peta-Gaye Dowdie (22.87- 200m), both finished fifth and fourth respectively at the trials and along Michelle Ballentine who has only secured a 'B' standard 800m time were also included.
Women: 1. Veronica Campbell (100m, 200m, 4x100m), 2. Sherone Simpson (100m, 4x100m), 3. Aleen Bailey (100m, 200m, 4x100m), 4. Beverley McDonald (200m, 4x100m), 5. Peta-Gaye Dowdie (4x100m), 6. Nadia Davy (400m, 4x400m), 7. Novlene Williams (400m, 4x400m), 8. Lorraine Fenton (400m, 4x400m; has until August 4 to prove fitness), 9. Allison Beckford (400m, 4x400m), 10. Michelle Ballentine (800m), 11. Delloreen Ennis-London (100m hurdles), 12. Brigitte Foster (100m hurdles), 13. Lacena Golding-Clarke (100m hurdles), 14. Debbie-Ann Parris (400m hurdles), 15. Patrina Allen (400m hurdles), 16. Shevon Stoddart (400m hurdles), 17. Elva Goulbourne (long jump), 18. Trecia-Kaye Smith (triple jump), 19. Kimberli Barrett (shot put), 20. Sandie Richards (4x400m), 21. Michelle Burgher (4x400m), 22. Ronetta Smith (4x400m).
Men: 1. Asafa Powell (100m, 4x100m), 2. Steve Mullings (100m, 200m 4x100m), 3. Dwight Thomas (100m, 4x100m), 4. Michael Frater (4x100m), 5. Christopher Williams (200m), 6. Usain Bolt (200m), 7. Brandon Simpson (400m 4x400m), 8. Michael Blackwood (400m, 4x400m), 9. Davian Clarke (4x400m), 10. Jermaine Gonzales (4x400m), 11. Maurice Wignall (110m hurdles), 12. Christopher Pinnock (110m hurdles), 13. Richard Phillips (110m hurdles), 14. Danny McFarlane (400m hurdles), 15. Dean Griffiths (400m hurdles), 16. Kemel Thompson (400m hurdles), 17. James Beckford (long jump), 18. Claston Bernard (decathlon), 19. Maurice Smith (decathlon), 20. Patrick Jarrett, 21. Winston Smith, 22. Richard James (4x400m), 23. Michael Campbell (4x400m).
Management: Lincoln Eatmon, Marie Tavares, Ian Forbes.
Coaches: Dennis Johnson, Glen Mills, Fitz Coleman, Stephen Francis, Maurice Wilson, Maurice Westney, Raymond Graham.
Medical: Doctors Warren Blake, Glenton Smith and Michael Douglas and physiotherapist Elizabeth Robinson.
