Dubai to host 20 international sports events in November including four world championships

Gulf Today, Staff Reporter

Dubai will host 111 sports events in the month of November, including 20 top international events, four of which are world championships – the 25th Karate World Championships, IBF Bowling World Championships, FIDE World Chess Championship and the ICC Men’s Twenty20 World Cup.

November will also see the highest ranked players on the European Tour’s Race to Dubai contest the final event of the season, the $9 million DP World Tour Championship at Jumeirah Golf Estates from November 18-21, while the top eight teams from the world of beach soccer will battle on the sands of Kite Beach for glory in the 10th Tecnotree Intercontinental Beach Soccer Cup Dubai.

There is an exciting new addition to Dubai’s cycling calendar as well – the Giro d’Italia Criterium, which is a 30-lap short-format race that will take place on November 6, as part of Expo 2020 Dubai, on a 2.1km circuit.

Being organised under the patronage of Sheikh Mansoor Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Sports Council, the 10th edition of the Tecnotree Intercontinental Beach Soccer Cup Dubai kicked off at Kite Beach on Tuesday with eight of the world’s best teams, including the two finalists from the 2021 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, Russia and Japan, in fray.

The Hamdan Sports Complex, one of the world’s most iconic sports arenas, will take centrestage from November 16 to 21 when its hosts yet another top international event – the 25th Karate World Championships.

With more than 1,200 athletes expected in Dubai for the event - alongside over 1,200 delegates, team officials and technical staff - the 25th Karate World Championships will be the biggest ever in history in terms of participation.

The top stars of international bowling will be here this month as Dubai Bowling Centre hosts the International Bowling Federation’s World Championships from November 6 to 26. A total of 512 bowlers from 46 countries have signed up for the championships, with 247 of them competing in the elite Super World Championship (Nov 6-15), 217 in the Masters World Championship (Nov 18-26) for the 55 to 65 year olds, and 48 in the Para (wheelchair) World Championship (Nov 12-16).

 Spectators, meanwhile, will return to the European Tour’s season ending DP World Tour Championship, Dubai, where 50 of the highest ranked players on the Race to Dubai Rankings in Partnership with Rolex will take on the Earth Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates, competing for a share of the $9 million prize pot.

The DP World Tour Championship will also, once again, host the European Disabled Golfers Association (EDGA) Dubai Finale from November 19-20.

Expo 2020 Dubai, meanwhile, will host the FIDE World Chess Championship 2021 from November 24 and December 16, where reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway will defend his crown against Russian challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi. The Hamdan Bin Rashid Masters international chess championship will take place concurrently.

Expo 2020 Dubai will also host the Giro d’Italia Criterium, an exciting new cycling race organised by Dubai Sports Council and RCS Sport with the support of MadeinItaly.gov.it.

Some of the world’s top riders will be taking part in the race, including 2021 Giro d’Italia winner Egan Bernal (INEOS Grenadiers); three-time UCI Road Race World Champion Peter Sagan (BORA hansgrohe); nine-time Grand Tour stage winner Elia Viviani (Cofidis); 2021 Giro d’Italia winner of the KOM Classification Geoffrey Bouchard; and the two-time UCI ITT World Champion Filippo Ganna (INEOS Grenadiers), winner of six stages of the Giro d’Italia.

The Asian qualifiers for the Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 will take place in Dubai Sports City on November 19-20, with eight of Asia’s top men and women teams battling for two tickets each to the World Cup.