TEHRAN – Iran has sent 17 Para athletes to the 2024 World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe, Japan.

Yasin Khosravi, Amanollah Papi, Aliasghar Javanmardi, Sadegh Beyt Sayah, Alireza Mokhtari, Hamed Amiri, Hadi Kaeidi, Hashemieh Motaghian, Elham Salehi, Zeynab Moradi Rashno, Mehdi Olad, Amirhossein Alipour, Ali Pirouj, Sajad Nikparast, Saman Pakbaz, Hajar Safarzadeh and Saeid Afrooz will represent Iran in the prestigious event.

The 2024 World Para Athletics Championships is an upcoming Paralympic track and field meet organized by the World Para Athletics subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee.

It will be the 11th edition of the event and it is scheduled to be held in the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium in Kobe, Japan, from May 17 to 25.

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 2020 Summer Paralympics which were rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.