{"id":2193,"date":"2010-04-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/uncategorized\/wolmers-boys-champs-2010-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:59:00","slug":"wolmers-boys-champs-2010-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-news\/wolmers-boys-champs-2010-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian at Champs 2010: Wolmer\u2019s Boys win for the first time since 1956"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2010\/apr\/01\/jamaican-champs-athletics\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>April 1, 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KINGSTON, Jamaica \u2014 The Guardian\u2019s centenary Champs feature of 1 April 2010 named Wolmer\u2019s High and its senior sprinter Julian Forte, who had won the Class 1 100 metres and 200 metres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forte told the paper the two races would \u201cnot mean so much unless my school, Wolmer\u2019s High, gets to win Boys Champs this afternoon\u2026 we\u2019ve not won Champs a long time [since 1956].\u201d In the last race, the 4\u00d7400 metres, the Guardian wrote that Wolmer\u2019s was a point ahead of Calabar and that Forte \u201cran his lap with power and grace, to build a sizeable lead.\u201d \u201cThe long wait for Wolmer\u2019s was over.\u201d A Guardian gallery the same day said Wolmer\u2019s Boys had won \u201cfor the first time in 54 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2010\/apr\/01\/jamaican-champs-athletics\">The Guardian<\/a>, April 1, 2010. Republished for the Wolmer\u2019s Trust community with attribution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Also: The Guardian, \u201cAthletics: The Highschool Champs in Jamaica,\u201d 1 April 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by The Guardian April 1, 2010 KINGSTON, Jamaica \u2014 The Guardian\u2019s centenary Champs feature of 1 April 2010 named Wolmer\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trust-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2720,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions\/2720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}