Para Swim Japan National Team Selection Canceled Tokyo Para 1 Year Postponed

Para Swim Japan National Team Selection Canceled Tokyo Para 1 year postponed March 25 19:41

Following the postponement of the Tokyo Paralympic Games for about one year, the selection of the Japanese national team for the para-swimming scheduled for May was canceled.

The Paralympic swim has a total of 27 participation slots for both men and women as Japan.

At the start of last year's world championship, we decided to select 24 people at the national selection round in March at first, except for the three who have already been decided as representatives, but the effect of the spread of the new coronavirus infection In May, the representative selection was to be made at the Japan Para Convention held in Yokohama in May.

However, with the decision to postpone the Paralympic Games, we decided not to make the Japan Para Games a national selection event.

The Japan Swimming Federation for the Physically Disabled and the Japan Swimming Federation for the Intellectually Disabled will announce again when the Tokyo Paralympic Games will be held and when new selections will be made.