Turkey's freestyle wrestling team has withdrawn from the UWW Polish Open that starts tomorrow ©Getty Images

Turkey's freestyle team has made a late withdrawal from the United World Wrestling’s Poland Open, the final point-scoring event for top-four seeding at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, which starts in Warsaw tomorrow.

The 22-man team competed last weekend at the Freestyle National Championships.

The Turkish Wrestling Federation announced: "It was decided to hold the National Wrestling Freestyle Championships (June 4-7) in Istanbul.

"Due to this reason our freestyle team cannot take part in the Ranking Series Tournament in Warsaw."

Turkey's 22-strong freestyle wrestling team will not be at the UWW Poland Open ranking series event that starts tomorrow ©Getty Images
Turkey's 22-strong freestyle wrestling team will not be at the UWW Poland Open ranking series event that starts tomorrow ©Getty Images

The final ranking series event of the year, which will welcome more than 300 athletes from 44 nations, will also help determine the seeding for October's World Championships in Oslo.

The top three finishers in the 2021 ranking series will earn a portion of a CHF600,000 (£472,000/$668,000/€549,000) prize package.

Among the athletes to look out for will be Japan’s two-times world champion Kenichiro Fumita who will be returning to international competition for the first time in 16 months.

Fumita won Greco-Roman gold at the 2017 and 2019 World Championships at 59 kilograms and 60kg respectively.

Three-times Olympic medallist Mariya Stadnik, Ukrainian-born but representing Azerbaijan since 2007, and Ukraine’s two-time world bronze medallist and 2019 European champion Oksana Livach are entered in the women’s 50kg category.

The Poland Open is due to run until June 13.