UAE Achieves Remarkable Success at World School Games 2024: 34 Medals, Including Record-Breaking Performances in Athletics and Taekwondo

Manama (Al-Ittihad)

The UAE delegation continued to perform in the World School Games “Bahrain 2024”, and won 19 new medals, increasing the number to 34 medals (13 gold, 9 silver, and 12 bronze), giving the UAE to 12th place in the general ranking. record for the competition among 71 countries participating in “The Global Cycle” competition, in an unprecedented historical achievement.
The athletics team continued to shine with the entry of champion Amina Qamar Al-Din to the “International”, after she snatched the gold medal in the 200 meters competition, and broke the world school record, by ‘ set a new record of “23:65 seconds”, surpassing the previous record of “23:67 seconds”.
Maryam Karim won gold in the 400-meter hurdles, with a time of “1:00:20 minutes,” and she had also won bronze in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of “56:44 seconds.”
The runner, Suleiman Abdel Rahman, won a bronze medal in the 200 meters, with a time of “21:39 seconds”, and was previously crowned with a gold medal in the 400 meters, and broke the world school record, setting a record new record of “45:77 seconds”, noting that the previous record was “46:98 seconds”, bringing the overall harvest of the athletics team to 3 gold and 3 bronze, and the medley relay team consisting of Suleiman Abdul Rahman, Muhammad Al -Musabi, Abdul Aziz Abdullah, and Hassan Al-Dhahouri came fourth, breaking the state record with a time of 1:55:03 minutes.
The champions and heroines of Taekwondo shone on the battlefield, and Moayed Murad won gold in the weight under 63 kg, Muhammad Nour won silver in the weight under 55 kg, and Osama won bronze , Muhannad Omar also won gold in the sub-. 48 kg weight, and Sarah Rashid won gold in the under 68 kg weight, and Ghazal placed Gold in the under 49 kg category, and Salma Fathi won the silver in the under 55 kg category.
The boxing champions hit hard in the fighting ring, and Ozkhan won gold in the weight of 92 kg, Badr Al-Sidrani won the silver in the weight of 57 kg, Muhammad Rafi won the bronze in the weight of 63.5 kg, and Saif Muhammad he won the bronze in weight 60 kg.
In bow and arrow, the team consisting of Ali Al-Ketbi, Abdullah Al-Mansouri, and Mansour Al-Kaabi snatched the gold medal in the youth category, by defeating the Saudi team, and the team consisting of Abdullah Al-Mansouri and Sarah Al-Mazmi added the complicated gold medal, by defeating Kazakhstan.

The Paralympic athletics champions were not absent from the podiums, as Nour El-Din Ihab Sabry won the silver medal in the shot put competition, gaining 6.69 meters, while the same athlete placed the silver medal in the javelin throw competition, getting 17.69 meters. There is still a good chance of winning new medals on the final day in which it ends… Badminton and bow and arrow team competitions, after 10 male and female players qualified for the finals.
Sheikh Suhail bin Butti Al Maktoum, Executive Director of the Sports Development Department at the General Sports Authority, Secretary General of the Sports Federation of School and University Educational Institutions, and the Head of the delegation that participated in the tournament, congratulated the male players and female, stressing that they were up to the challenge and keeping the UAE flag in mind, so that they would be encouraged in achieving the great achievements of our young state, he said: “Happiness is getting over our hearts with the achievements of our sons and daughters, because they meet the wishes of our wise leadership and our wise government, in terms of raising the state flag above the podiums in international sports forums at all levels, and these honorable results are the result of a constructive partnership.” and University Educational Institutions, the Ministry of Education and the National Sports Federations, and this global forum represents the basic foundation for the future of global sports at a competitive level, as the champions have set their feet on a track achievements, leading to the Olympic dream that UAE sports aspires to.”
He said: “The tournament provided a valuable opportunity for UAE male and female players to benefit from this strong benchmark, and from our close monitoring of them in the competition arenas, we confirm that they have the potential to confirm their high competitiveness, and the evidence of this is the progress we have made in the ranking table of the participating countries to the twelfth place until the last day’s competitions. .”