Pan Am youth games scheduled for April 2021

Jul 19, 2020 Sports

Following the postponement of a few tournaments this year namely the Indoor Pan Am Cup and the Pan American Challenge/South American Championships that was scheduled to run for June 27th to July fifth 2020 in Peru, the Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF) has announced that the Junior (under-21) championship will be staged in April 2021.

The junior hockey players will get to eventually showcase their skills in the Pan American Hockey Federation championship in April next year after the COVID 19 postponements.

Guyana will be competing solely in the male division of the tournament, which will run concurrently with the female division from April 12-25 in Santiago, Chile, and, hopefully will not be affected too much by the coronavirus pandemic and with many sports leagues and competitions already returning to play follow a three-month hiatus, all signs point to a hiccup free event.
The Junior Continental Championships, which act as the qualification competition for the 2021 Junior World Cups at the end of 2021, were originally due to be completed in 2020. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, this has not been possible in all continents, with the exception of Europe.
In order to provide opportunity for all competitions to take place, the International Hockey Federation (FIH) has extended the window by which they must be completed to May 2021. This is a mere six months before the Junior World Cups that are schedule to be contested in India (m) and South Africa (w), and as long as the FIH and the hosts know who the competing nations will be by May, then all logistics, marketing and arrangements can still be made in good time.
The Age Limit for all competing athletes for the Junior Continental Championships when they were due to take place in 2020 was that “all players shall be under 21 years of age as of 31 December 2019; that is all players shall be born on or after 1 January 1999”.
This age limit remains in place for the Junior Continental Championships, even if the competitions are held before and no later than May 2021, when some players could therefore be 22 years of age.
This is only the case for these reorganised Junior Continental Championships.