Track and field has always been big in Jamaica but with the performance of Jamaica athletes in recent years, culminating in our sprint domination in Beijing last year track and field is rising even higher.
A little History
Almost 100 years ago when Jamaica was still a British colony 6 local high schools started competing in track and field events, fast forward to the present and over 100 schools and thousands of high school students between 12 and 18 now compete in one of the biggest yearly track and field events in the world. Most of the members of Jamaica’s current track team were stars on the track from their high school days at champs including the world’s fastest man Usain Bolt who was then a 400m runner.
over 30,000 spectators pack the National Stadium each
year to watch Jamaica’s future Track and Field Stars
International Spotlight
International press have been flooding into the island since the BeijingΒ Olympics to cover Jamaican athletes and Champs being one of the major events on the local track and field calendar is expected to attract a lot of international attention.
Asafa Powell handing out prizes at last year’s champs – Remember the
name of the sprinter Ramone McKenzie, he has great potential
In 2009 title sponsors GraceKennedy present the Boys’ and Girls’ Championships and I’ll be there on the final day (champs is from April 1-4 this year) cheering on my high school team Calabar High School who are favorite to win for the boys section for the third consecutive year.
[pole]
calabar cant loose!09
calabar for life…winning champs 2009 [girl]
CALABAR /RABALAC/ UTMOST FOR THE HIGHEST, FL.
who is 2009 champs winner [tongue]
final stages of the meet now, Calabar and KC neck and neck
[jamaica] [love] [surfer] [clown] [angel] [pole] [girl]
Kc a tek it to them fi 09 [jamaica]
We win champs for boys? Kc? [love]
dont care!! [evil]
Who win for the boys Kc? [evil]
[anime]
KC won by 1.5 points over C-BAR for their 31st Title(most wins), also won Schools Challenge(9 titles, most wins) by 28 points over Ardenne earlier in the week. KC has most wins in Cricket, Chess, Basketball, 3rd in Football…..list goes on and on….need i say more.
Ava….don’t discriminate….just participate and appreciate
FORTIS FOR LIFE……..FORTIS FOREVER.
Bronx
[jamaica]
congrats to the KC family. They barely won but a win is a win. Well fought Calabar we’ll get them next year
Most wins by far in Table tennis [pole]
FORTiS Fi LiFE… [jamaica]
kc to the world
Yea champs was a very close one this year…regardless of which school took the crown they would have barely won… KC won by 1.5 points if c-bar won, it wouldn’t be any different..
who cares about champs? I think i [zzz] it” boring
Hey Kelsey…..gwaan a u blouse and skirt yard …..wha u mean by Champs boring…..i guess u are not a Jamaican, or yu never went to high school …..keep ur comments to ur self….If you ever been there you would know Champs is the next best thing to weed (lol) [anime]
FOREVER FORTIS
Oh sorry Beast.How would you feel if you have a report to write on Champs? F.Y.I I am a Jamaica. [girl]
[surfer] [jamaica] [tongue] [gamer] I was disappointed that CALABAR didn’t beat kingston college to win. No matter what happens in the following champs ahead ‘C BAR mi a sey straight to di world “go get dem mi fambily from reds road.
clarendon college to di worl lol [anime] [pole] [evil] [angel] [gamer] [jamaica]
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mas
HOLMWOOD WE SEH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [love]