2009 Boys and Girls Champs Buzz Building

2009 March 10
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by Jamaipanese

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 Beijing  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.

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25 Responses leave one →
  1. frank palmer permalink
    April 2, 2009

    calabar cant loose!09

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  2. Nastasia permalink
    April 3, 2009

    calabar for life…winning champs 2009 [girl]

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  3. frank palmer permalink
    April 3, 2009

    CALABAR /RABALAC/ UTMOST FOR THE HIGHEST, FL.

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  4. shakeria samuels permalink
    April 4, 2009

    who is 2009 champs winner [tongue]

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  5. shakeria samuels permalink
    April 4, 2009

    [jamaica] [love] [surfer] [clown] [angel] [pole] [girl]

    Reply
  6. Miss Indpendent permalink
    April 4, 2009

    Kc a tek it to them fi 09 [jamaica]

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  7. Miss Indpendent permalink
    April 4, 2009

    We win champs for boys? Kc? [love]

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  8. Ava permalink
    April 4, 2009

    dont care!! [evil]

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  9. Miss Indpendent permalink
    April 4, 2009

    Who win for the boys Kc? [evil]

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  10. Miss Indpendent permalink
    April 4, 2009

    [anime]

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  11. BEAST permalink
    April 5, 2009

    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

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  12. BEAST permalink
    April 5, 2009

    [jamaica]

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  13. Jamaipanese permalink*
    April 5, 2009

    congrats to the KC family. They barely won but a win is a win. Well fought Calabar we’ll get them next year

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  14. BEAST permalink
    April 5, 2009

    Most wins by far in Table tennis [pole]

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  15. jojo permalink
    April 5, 2009

    FORTiS Fi LiFE… [jamaica]

    Reply
  16. TRU TRU permalink
    April 6, 2009

    kc to the world

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  17. Dan permalink
    April 6, 2009

    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..

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  18. Kelsey Salmon permalink
    April 6, 2009

    who cares about champs? I think i [zzz] it” boring

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  19. BEAST permalink
    April 6, 2009

    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

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  20. Kelsey Salmon permalink
    April 7, 2009

    Oh sorry Beast.How would you feel if you have a report to write on Champs? F.Y.I I am a Jamaica. [girl]

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  21. Antonio Jones permalink
    June 4, 2009

    [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.

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  22. TT permalink
    December 12, 2009

    clarendon college to di worl lol [anime] [pole] [evil] [angel] [gamer] [jamaica]

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  23. asdf permalink
    March 11, 2010

    http://www.jamaipanese.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/sad.jpg

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  24. asdf permalink
    March 11, 2010

    mas

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