4th ISSO Sports Meet 2022-23

MIT Pune’s Vishwashanti Gurukul

MIT Vishwashanti Gurukul an IB World School, Pune hosted the 4^th ISSO [International Schools Sports Organization] sports meet – a three-day event started on 27^th to 29^th September 2022. Around 700 students from 69 schools across the country from various international boards competed for honors in 4 sports: Archery, Chess, Table tennis, and Swimming.

The event started with a grand inaugural ceremony including a flag march and oath-taking. The chief guest was the Director of ISSO – International Schools Sports Organization, and Executive Committee Member School Games Federation of India, Mr. Jagdeep Singh who addressed the august gathering and declared the meet open.

The most challenging aspect of the three days ISSO sports meet was to see all the participants striving meticulously to win as many medals as possible in individual and team events to bring laurels to their respective schools.

Our school proved that they were undefeatable by achieving the maximum of 34 medals in all by crossing all hurdles and emerging triumphant.

14 Gold medals
10 Silver medals
10 Bronze medals

The event culminated with the closing ceremony and prize distribution done by Mr. Gaurav Dixit, the director of marketing and PR of the school games federation of India, and Mr. Abhishek Saraswat, the administrative head of ISSO India who congratulated the winners.

ISS0 gave all the participants and various schools a common platform to come together and an opportunity to prove that with determination, perseverance, and strong willpower everything is possible.

All our accomplishments are the result of the overwhelming and constant support from our Senior Management Team. This achievement is also the fruit of the relentless hard work of our students and the entire sports faculty headed by Mr Karan Deb – Sports Coordinator & Mr Jitendra Yadav – HoD Sports for endlessly striving to prepare our students to be champions.

RESULTS

Chess

Ishika Choudhary – Silver

Table Tennis

U-19 Team – Bronze

Gehena Ashok Hotwani

Yashvi Jayantilal Jagodana

Ridhi Hetalkumar Patel

Yoonhyerin Jang

Swimming

Boys U-19: 4×100 M Freestyle Relay – Gold

Kathan