Para-athletics in Cameroon is one of several sports that people with disabilities participate in, in the country. Competitors in the sport have represented their country in international competitions. Development of sport has also taken place locally as a result of international support.
Development
The sport is supported by local clubs and schools. Club for the Blind Youth of Cameroon (French: ) was an association supporting blind youth. In 2006, they supported a number of sporting activities for the blind at their club including athletics, African wrestling, judo and goalball. Years later, they were continuing to support torball, goalball and athletics for people with vision impairments.
In 2011, national team para-sports people for athletics and powerlifting trained on a dirt covered esplandande at Stade Omnisport de Yaoundé. The French Paralympic Committee has been working to assist in the development of para-sports in French speaking African countries. In 2013, ahead of the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France, Cameroon was one of six countries to benefit from a program by the French Paralympic Committee that saw donate para-athletics equipment to try to assist the region in developing their sportspeople to the elite level by giving them access to high quality equipment required to compete at that level.
In 2014, Cameroonian para-sportspeople participated in the Queen's Baton Relay ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. One of the reasons they participated in the Relay was to try to bring attention to para-sports in Cameroon, and to assist in changing the perception of para-athletics in their country. The goal was to try to get people to think of para-athletics as a normal and acceptable sport.
International competitions
The Jeux de l'avenir pour personnes handicapées d'Afrique, zone Afrique centrale were created in 2008 as a result of support in Cameroon to host a Central African version of the Games. Cameroon was originally scheduled to host them in July 2008, but the Ministry of Sports and Physical Education postponed them because of poor facilities and lack of access to quality equipment. The Games did not take place until August. In athletics, Minosette dominated for Cameroon, winning gold medals in the women's 100 meters, the 200 meters and the long jump.
Following the formal creation of the CNPC in August 2011, the organization immediately set about trying to enter eight athletes into the 10th All Africa Games in Maputo. Events on the program included the 100 meters, 200 meters and long jump. FECASDEP was given funding to send 4 sportspeople to the 2011 All-Africa Games to compete in javelin and the 1,500 meters. FECASDEP held a two-week training camp ahead of the competition, and had a goal of having its athletes make the podium at the Games. FECASDV was funded for one athlete and two guides. He compete in the 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m events. Omer Abat was the coach for the vision impaired national team for Maputo.
Special Olympics Cameroon was supposed to send a delegation in 2011 to Athens World Games. One of the members of the team would have been track and field competitor Salomon Oyono.
In 2012, Cameroon sent 58 athletes to the sixth International Athletics Meeting of Tunis. The competition was a qualifying event for the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
Cameroon sent a delegation to the 2013 Czech Open. They were the first African country to participate in the event, and athletes had the opportunity to undergo international classification. The team included three athletes, Conrat Frederic Atangana, Jean Solange Avah Mbida and Herve Ndi. All participated in the javelin event, with Cameroon coming away with three javelin bronze medals. Avah Mbida also won bronze in the T54 100 meter and 200 meter events.