Kagoshima National Athletic Meet postponed in Corona to be held in 2023 September 25, 19:16
Due to the influence of the new coronavirus, the National Athletic Meet = National Athletic Meet in Kagoshima Prefecture, which was abandoned, will be held in 2023, and will be held in the prefectures that have been unofficially decided after that, one year at a time. It will be postponed.
The national polity is held every year around the prefectures, and this was scheduled for October in Kagoshima prefecture, but due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, the event was abandoned and postponed in June. It was decided.
On the 25th, a meeting will be held in Tokyo by the Japan Sports Association, the Japanese Para-Sports Association, which will hold a national sports competition for the disabled after the national polity, the Japan Sports Agency, and Kagoshima Prefecture, and a new time will be held in 2023. I decided to make it a year.
Along with this, the holdings in Saga Prefecture, which was unofficially decided in 2023, and Shiga Prefecture, which was unofficially decided in 2024, will be postponed by one year, and the holdings in the candidate sites after that will be postponed by one year. became.
This is the first time that the National Athletic Meet has been postponed, and after the postponement of the Kagoshima Prefecture tournament was decided, a new holding time was finally decided after three months of difficult coordination with related prefectures.
"Relieved", Chairman of Japan Sports Association
Masatoshi Ito, chairman of the Japan Sports Association, told reporters after the meeting, "Kagoshima Prefecture has been preparing for many years, so I didn't want to cancel it. Cooperation of each prefecture I am relieved to be able to reach this conclusion thanks to. "