Jamaican team for Helsinki

Jamaica will send 51 athletes to Helsinki, Finland for next month's IAAF World Championships. The team includes three World Championship medallists, an Olympic champion, World Record holder and World Junior Record holder.
 
Injury permitting, Asafa Powell will lead the team to Helsinki. Recent media reports out of Europe indicate that the 22-year-old, who established a new World Record of 9.77 seconds for the men's 100m earlier this year, could be out with a groin injury. He is currently receiving treatment.
 
Although he is clearly Jamaica's leading athlete, Powell has no major honours to his name. At the last World Championships, he was disqualified from the quarter-finals of the men's 100m, while at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad in Athens last summer, he finished fifth in his pet race.
 
Conversely, Veronica Campbell seeks to add a World Championship to the Olympic 200m title she picked up last year in Athens. The 23-year-old must hold off a strong challenge from the American contingent, but she's been improving as the season has worn on, and she will be hard to beat in Helsinki.
 
Jamaica has several other medal prospects in its team, including former World Championship and Olympic medallists and 200m World Junior Champion Usain Bolt, still a teenager. Four individuals will be competing at this level for the first time for Jamaica.

Terry Finisterre for the IAAF
 

OTHER NOTABLES

Men
Usain Bolt (200m, 19.99)
Maurice Wignall (110H, 13.47)
Danny McFarlane (400H, 48.53)
Germaine Mason (HJ, 2.27m)
James Beckford (LJ, SB 8.03m)
Dorian Scott (SP, 20.21m)

Women 
Sherone Simpson (100m, 10.97)
Aleen Bailey (100m, 11.07)
Lorraine Fenton (400m, 50.95)
Brigitte Foster-Hylton (100H, 12.60)
Delloreen Ennis-London (100H, 12.60)
Trecia Smith (TJ, 14.91m)
Kenia Sinclair (800m, 1:58.88)
 
FULL JAMAICA SQUAD
Michael Frater (100m, 4x100m), Dwight Thomas (100m, 4x100m), Patrick Jarrett (4x100m), Christopher Williams (200m), Omar Brown (200m), Lansford Spence (400m, 4x400), Brandon Simpson (400m, 4x400m), Michael Blackwood (400m, 4x400m), Sanjay Ayre (4x400m), Chris Pinnock (100m hurdles), Kemel Thompson (400m hurdles), Dean Griffiths (400m hurdles), Maurice Smith (Decathlon), Lansford Davis (4x400m), Davian Clarke (4x400m), Claston Bernard (Decathlon), Lerone Clarke (4x100m), Ainsley Waugh (4x100m)
 
Beverley McDonald (4x100m), Sheri-Ann Brooks (200m, 4x100m), Shericka Williams (400m, 4x400m), Ronetta Smith (400m, 4x400m), Novlene Williams (4x400m), Vonette Dixon (100m hurdles), Melanie Walker (400m hurdles), Debbie-Ann Parris-Thymes (400m hurdles), Shevon Stoddart (400m hurdles), Elva Goulbourne (Long Jump), Mardra Hyman (Steeplechase), Korine Hinds (steeplechase), Shellene Williams (4x400m), Daniele Browning (4x100m), Moya Thompson (4x400m), Kimberly Barrett (Shot Put), Michelle Ballentine (800m), Olivia McKoy (Javelin Throw)
 
TEAM MANAGEMENT
Ludlow Watts (manager); Grace Jackson and Gregory Hamilton (assistant managers); Donald Quarrie (technical leader); Juliet Cuthbert (press liaison); Glen Mills, Raymond Graham, Maurice Wilson, Fitz Coleman, Michael Clarke, Bertland Cameron (coaches); Dr. Warren Blake, Dr. Glenton Smith, Patricia Lue-Chin (physiotherapist), Maureen Spence-Campbell (physiotherapist)