Novices Aquatic Championships 2020 on October 15 to 18
Sri Lanka Aquatic Sports Union (SLASU) will conduct this year’s Novices Aquatic Championships in a bio-secure environment from October 15 to 18 opening the pool for the first time after the global COVID-19 pandemic at Sri Lanka’s solitary international standard pool at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium.
Following the guidelines of the Presidential Task Force of COVID-19 and Heath Department, SLASU has already given instructions to the participants to restrict the spectator participation confining only for one member from the athlete.
The swimmers can enter premises only if they are scheduled to take part in a particular race on their due date in the four-day competition conducted by SLASU without any sponsor.
All the Junior competitions – Under-13 and Under-15 – are scheduled for the first two days (Thursday and Friday) followed by senior events (Under-17 and Under-19) on the last two days on weekends.
The Open category events have been arranged on the third day Saturday.