The various competitions of “Dubai Schools Games”; the biggest school sports tournament of its kind in Dubai, continue with participation of 8500 male & female students from 200 schools.
Dubai Schools Games Tournament is organized by ESM in collaboration with Dubai Sports Council from 19th Oct. 2023 to 26th June 2024.
The Tournament represents the preliminary step for scouting & developing sports talents before moving to join clubs & become Olympic champions.
In golf competition for preliminary stage, took place at the Emirates Golf Club, Banait W from Dubai British School – Jumeirah Park won 1st place, followed by Yasmin L H from Dubai British School – Emirates Hills in the 2nd place and Erum K from the International School of Choueifat – Dubai in the 3rd place, while in the intermediate stage category, Alxander R of the Bloom World Academy secured 1st place, followed by his colleague in the Bloom World Academy Arian S in the 2nd place and Victor L from JEMS First Point School in the 3rd place.
In the arrow & bow competition – U 12 Boys Category, Siddharth R from the GEMS New Millennium School won 1st place, while Ashmina J from St. Marry’s Catholic School secured 1st place in U 12 Girls Category. Abhinav J from Apple International School came 1st in U 15 Boys Category, while the U 15 Girls Category’s title was gained by Stavica B from the GEMS Founders School in Al-Mezhar. Ahmit T of the GEMS Wellington International School won the title of U 18 Boys category, and Jovita G from Our Own English Secondary School got 1st place in U 18 Girls Category.
The netball competition for primary stage took place at the GEMS Wellington Academy with participation of 480 female students. Dubai English Speaking School won the U 8 category’s title of the competition, while Arcadia School secured 1st places in U 9 & U 11 categories, and Jumeirah Primary School came 1st in U 10 category.
Participants in the Tournament compete in 23 sports competitions; these are: football, volleyball, basketball, rhythmic Gymnastics, golf, people of determination games, tennis, swimming, cycling, badminton, indoor cricket, outdoor cricket, padel, gymnastics, chess, remote chess, esports, bow & arrow, athletics, netball, rugby, karate & teachers’ competition.
Dubai Schools Games Tournament aims to increase the school awareness of the importance of the exercise of sport & physical activities as a vital way to boost physical & mental health and enjoy happy life.
Participation in this Tournament is free for all schools and students of multi-nationalities, different levels & categories and various ages from the age of U 9 to U 19 years old.
The Tournament provides unique opportunity for all school students to show their talents & sports abilities. The Talents Scouting Program is implemented in all sports competitions. Representatives from Dubai clubs attend the competitions to scout promising talents and to follow their performance & progress.
The Organizing Committee creates a sports file for each male & female player, who participates in the Tournament, so that he can utilize this file when he moves to the university stage or when he joins a sports club in the future.