With the growing number of covid-19 cases, the Japan Wrestling Federation has decided to cancel the national championship. The events was scheduled for October but to keep the wrestlers safe from getting infected the decision was taken, said Japan Federation. “We would like to express our sincere gratitude for your continued support of the Federation’s businesses. By the way, the Federation was preparing for the event by taking a questionnaire about the event to be held in October of this year and taking preventive measures against new coronavirus infection. We would like to inform you that it will be (suspended) from the viewpoint of preventing the spread of new coronavirus infection. (Sic.)”
Japan is not the only country where COVID-19 is playing spoilsport. The future of Russian Championships has also come into doubts as the second wave of the pandemic has hit the country. The Russian wrestling federation will take the decision on whether to go ahead with the calendar or not in two weeks.
If they decide to hold the competitions the first competition will be the Junior Greco-Roman Russian championship from September 6 to 10. Here is the entire post-covid wrestling calendar of Russia.
September 6-10 – the championship of Russia in Greco-Roman wrestling among juniors.
September 8-14 – Russian freestyle wrestling championship among juniors.
September 25-28 – Russian freestyle wrestling championship among women, Kazan.
September 28 – October 4 – CIS Wrestling Games, Kazan.
October 9-11 – Russian freestyle wrestling championship, Vladikavkaz.
October (exact dates are being set) – Russian U-23 freestyle wrestling championship, Volgograd.
December 10-13 – Russian championship among juniors, All-Russian competition among female cadets, Smolensk.