The World Masters Games to be hosted by Auckland and Waikato will deliver the largest para-sport programme in the event's history.
A total of 11 para-sport options for athletes with a disability will be available when the Games are held in April 2017.
Jennah Wootten, chief executive of the Games, said the announcement came in the same week as the United Nation's International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
"It was the perfect day to make this announcement as we join the rest of the world in celebrating a day which promotes and encourages understanding and awareness of disability," she said.
"This year's theme for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities is 'inclusion matters' which resonates very strongly with the ethos and philosophy of 'sport for all' which is at the very heart of the World Masters Games movement."