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Narok County will now incorporate para-sports in all of their sports programs in a bid to promote equality and enhancement of intercultural relations, it has been announced.

Speaking on Tuesday in Narok town, Narok County Sports Director Benson Kariuki said that effective July 2023, Para sports will be included in all sporting programs within the county starting with the Kilgoris Classics.

“This is the home of former world champion David Rudisha and the Manangoi brothers. We now need to produce other new faces and keep on celebrating. Unfortunately, we have never produced a world champion in para-sports and that has to change,” said Kariuki who also added that persons with disabilities also have an opportunity to be empowered through sports among many other opportunities if offered to them.

Former tennis international Samuel Lemurt, now a para-sport coach within the county, lauded the idea saying that it goes a long way in nurturing talent.  “I had to go to Nairobi so that my talent could be seen.”

There are so many para-sport athletes within Narok County, but they cannot thrive because their talents are not noticed.”

 and we also lack the necessary sporting infrastructure for persons with disabilities,” said an optimistic Lemurt who also is mandated to be the County Sports Administrator in charge of para-sports.

The Kilgoris Classics is an athletics event that aims at identifying raw talents within Narok County in the midst of the already established ones.

Kariuki and Lemurt have already identified Tri-cycling for para-sports athletes as an event that will be competed during the classics as plans are already underway to include other sporting events for the July showcase.

The 2023 Africa Para Games are scheduled to be held in September in Accra, Ghana and now Narok County sports administrators want to see some of their athletes making that team ahead of the Paris Olympics 2024 as they aim to raise the Kenyan flag high internationally.