With Team Botswana also in attendance with Debswana sponsoring five athletes to participate in the hopes of qualifying for the 2024 Paralympics to be held later this year in Paris, France. The Para Athletics World Championships is the world's premier para athletics event, established by the International Paralympic Committee. The first Championships were held in Berlin, Germany in 1994, and since the fifth Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2011, it has been held every two years. The Kobe Championships was scheduled to be held in 2021, but was forced to be postponed twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Finally, in May 2024, it will be held in Kobe for the first time in East Asia. No less than 171 events will be held in the 2024 World Para Athletics Championships, which will be based at the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium. Paul Fitzgerald, Head of World Para Athletics, said: “The World Championships are the largest single Para sport event in the world. Each edition represents a new and important step in the growth and development of our sport. "Para athletics supporters in Japan were not able to experience, in person, the brilliance of these athletes during the Tokyo Paralympic Games. Now we are finally here and have the chance to deliver a World Championships like no other.”
