The 2024

World Para Athletics Championships The World Para Athletics Championships, known as the IPC Athletics World Championships prior to 2017, are a biennial Paralympic athletics event organized by World Para Athletics, a subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). It ...

is an upcoming

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meet organized by the World Para Athletics subcommittee of the

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. It will be the 11th edition of the event and it is scheduled to be held in the

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, Japan, from 17 to 25 May 2024. This will be the first time the event is held in East Asia. The event was initially scheduled for September 2021 but it was rescheduled to avoid clashing with the

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which were rescheduled due to the

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. In January 2022, the organisers requested World Para Athletics for postponement of the event until 2024 due to

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concerns. A week later, World Para Athletics confirmed that the event would not be held in 2022.

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2024 in Japanese sport World Para Athletics Championships, 2024

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