The Organising Committee in Japan requested postponement last week, floating 2024 as a potential timeslot to stage the event.

"After extensive consultation with the local authorities and stakeholders, in light of the foreseeable restrictions associated to the delivery of the World Championships in Japan, both World Para Athletics and the Local Organising Committee have reached an understanding that the competition will not take place in 2022," read a statement from World Para Athletics.

"Both parties are working closely to assess the feasibility of a postponement to 2024 in order to retain the World Championships within the Paris 2024 cycle."

The event in Japan was initially scheduled to be hosted from August 24 to September 5 in 2021 but was pushed back by 12 months to avoid clashing with the postponed Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

It would have been the first time that the competition had been staged in East Asia.

Dubai in the United Arab Emirates hosted the most recent World Championships in November 2019.

Paris is set to hold the biennial event in 2023, one year before it stages the Paralympic Games.

That would see France become the first nation to hold the event on three occasions after Lille 2002 and Lyon 2013.

Britain is the only other country to have held the World Championships twice - at Birmingham 1998 and London 2017.