Olympic gold medalist Gable Steveson instructed USA Wrestling that he won’t compete on the world championships from Sept. 16-17 in Belgrade, Serbia.

No extra particulars have been offered in a USA Wrestling press release.

Steveson, 23, might be changed within the 125kg freestyle area by Mason Parris, the second-ranked American on the weight.

In April, Steveson introduced that he was ending a year-plus retirement from competitors. In March 2022, he left his sneakers on the mat — the game’s symbolic act of retirement — following repeating as NCAA heavyweight champion for the University of Minnesota.

Steveson returned to win April’s U.S. Open, then swept Parris in a best-of-three sequence in June to make the world championships staff.

Then, Steveson stated he was “glad to be on the world team” and “hopefully in for 2024.”

“Winning the Olympics is not an easy task, and winning it in 2024 is not going to be an easy task either,” he said after beating Parrs. “It’s going to be harder than it was before.”

After that, Steveson made his WWE debut on the NXT Great American Bash on July 30, two years after signing an NIL cope with the corporate after the Tokyo Games.

In the previous, world medalists at Olympic weights within the yr earlier than the Games obtained byes into the finals at Olympic Trials. USA Wrestling has not introduced whether or not that would be the case once more for 2024.

In the Tokyo Olympic closing, Steveson beat reigning world champion Geno Petriashvili of Georgia with a takedown within the closing second to grow to be the second-youngest U.S. wrestling gold medalist in historical past at age 21.

He joined Bruce Baumgartner, a star of the Eighties and ‘90s, because the lone U.S. males to win an Olympic freestyle tremendous heavyweight title.

The U.S. staff for worlds — Sept. 16-24 — is headlined by Olympic gold medalists David Taylor, Kyle Snyder and Helen Maroulis.