Impact of pandemic on international sports events — Which have opened, remained shut? COVID19
Major sports events around the world that are in the process of re-starting or which have been rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic:* The 2020 K-League season kicked off on May 8 behind closed doors.
* The women's Under-20 World Cup in Costa Rica and Panama, postponed from August to September, has been rescheduled for Jan. 20 to Feb. 6, 2021.* World Athletics has suspended Olympic qualification until December.WORLD BEACH GAMES* The 2021 World Games have been pushed back by a year to avoid clashing with the Olympics.* The World Athletics Championships scheduled for 2021 in Eugene, Oregon have been moved to the summer of 2022 because of the Olympic Games rescheduling.
* The Canoe Slalom World Cup Final and non-Olympic World Championships in Germany have been moved from September to October.* English cricket's The Hundred, originally scheduled to begin on July 17, was pushed back to 2021.* Milan-Sanremo will be held on Aug. 8, Liege-Bastogne-Liege on Oct. 4, the Tour des Flandres on Oct. 18, Paris-Roubaix on Oct. 25 and the Tour of Lombardy on Oct. 31.
* The Harding Park golf course which is scheduled to host the PGA Championship in August re-opened on May 4. * The Ladies Professional Golf Association is hoping to get the 2020 season underway with the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational from July 15 to 18.* The Australian PGA Championship will take place at the Royal Queensland Golf Club from Dec. 3 to 6.
* MotoGP intends to start its season with races on July 19 and 26 at the Jerez circuit in southern Spain. * Rugby Australia are looking at potentially including both the Western Force and Japan's Sunwolves in a competition with their four Super Rugby sides to start in early July.* The World Snooker Championship, originally scheduled to begin on April 18, will start on July 31 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.* The 2020 European Aquatics Championships scheduled to take place from May 11 to 24 in Budapest, Hungary, have been postponed to next year.
* South America's two biggest club competitions, the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana, are suspended.* Asian and South American qualifying matches for 2022 World Cup were postponed.* Barcelona's women's team were declared champions of Spain's Liga Iberdrola after the national soccer federation's executive committee agreed to end all non-professional competitions.
* The last two games of Australia's three-match one-day international series against New Zealand in Sydney and Hobart were cancelled while the limited-overs tours were postponed. * The European Tour cancelled the BMW International Open and the Open de France . The Scottish Open was postponed. The Tour had postponed or cancelled events scheduled between March and May.* The German handball season was cancelled after top clubs voted in favour of abandoning the campaign.* The remaining women's Euro 2020 qualifiers as well as European playoff matches for the 2021 men's world championship were cancelled.
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