It will be the first time since it was launched in 2005 that the event, which is expected to feature 500 athletes aged under-23 from 50 countries competing in archery, athletics, powerlifting and table tennis, will be held at Stoke Mandeville.

It is scheduled to take place between August 3 and 8, 2014. 

It is hoped that the Games will provide valuable competition for all up and coming youngsters and 2016 Rio Paralympic prospects and will take place just before the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) European Athletic Championships that are due to be staged in Swansea. 

"IWAS is pleased that we can return to Stoke Mandeville in 2014 where the 10th IWAS World Junior Games will revive the spirit of the International Stoke Mandeville Games," said IWAS Games Committee chair, Dina Sotiriadi.

The decision to award the event to Stoke Mandeville means that some of the world's best young athletes will have the opportunity to compete at an elite level of sport at the home of the Paralympic Movement and will take place nine years after the first-ever World Junior Games were held there.

This year's Games are due to take place in Puerto Rico between August 6 and 15. 

"IWAS is fortunate to be able to build on the legacy of London 2012 by the renewed interest and especially so in Buckinghamshire - the birthplace of the Paralympic Movement," said IWAS President Paul DePace.

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