Lausanne, Switzerland, April 27, 2020: The International Handball Federation has been closely monitoring the COVID-19 outbreak and its impact on handball worldwide. Consequently, the IHF has decided to reschedule the following events:
*Tokyo 2020 Women’s Olympic Qualification Tournaments
Originally scheduled to be held in Spain, Hungary and Montenegro from 20-22 March 2020
New dates: 19-21 March 2021
*Tokyo 2020 Men’s Olympic Qualification Tournaments
Originally scheduled to be held in Norway, France and Germany from 17-19 April 2020
New dates: 12-14 March 2021
*2020 IHF Women's Junior (U20) World Championship
Originally scheduled to be held in Romania from 1-13 July 2020
New dates: 2-13 December 2020
*2020 IHF Women's Youth (U18) World Championship
Originally scheduled to be held in Croatia from 18-30 August 2020
New dates: 29 September - 11 October 2020
Furthermore, the 2020 IHF Men’s and Women’s Beach Handball World Championships, which were scheduled to be staged from 30 June to 5 July 2020 in Italy, have been postponed and will be moved. The new hosts and dates will be announced in due course.
The IHF is in contact with several Arab National Federations to host the event and in this case, as well as the Women’s Junior and Youth World Championships, the IHF is keen to hold the event in 2020.
In addition to the aforementioned events, the introduction of the IHF Beach Handball Global Tour, which was scheduled to take place in Poland, Germany, Spain and Thailand in June, August and November, has been postponed until 2021, with further details to come.
Source: www.ihf.info