Home Paralympic champions to compete at IPC Athletics Grand Prix in São Paulo

Terezinha Guilhermina will be going for gold at her home IPC Athletics Grand Prix in São Paulo ©Getty Images

Some of Brazil’s top athletes, including 10 Paralympic medallists from London 2012, are among the field gearing up to compete at this week’s International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics Grand Prix at the Icaro de Castro Mello Stadium in São Paulo.

Among the home talent is multiple Paralympic and world champion Terezinha Guilhermina, the face of the Rio 2016 Games, who will compete in the women's 100 metres T11 just a few days after running with Jamaican Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt as her guide.

She will go up against her compatriots Jerusa Santos and Jhulia Santos, who finished second and third respectively behind Guilhermina at both London 2012 and the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon.

Women's 200m T38 World Championships gold medallist Verônica Hipólito, men's 100m T11 world and Paralympic gold medal winner Lucas Prado, 200m T11 Paralympic champion Felipe Gomes, Paralympic silver medallist Daniel Silva and men's 200m T46 world record breaker and London 2012 champion Yohannson Nascimento will also represent the home nation on the track.

Jeremy Campbell will be one to watch at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in São Paulo ©Getty Images

On the field, meanwhile, the Brazilian squad includes women's javelin F37 Paralympic champion Shirlene Coelho, who will face tough competition from the likes of Venezuela's Yomaira Cohen.

But it is not just home athletes who will be looking for medals, with more than 340 athletes from 20 nations set to compete in São Paulo at the three-day event, due to get underway tomorrow.

Others to watch out for include Cuban Paralympic champion Omara Durand in the women's 100m T13 and her compatriot, multiple world and Paralympic gold medallist Yunidis Castillo in the women's 400m T46 and Mexico's Paralympic and world champion Angeles Ortiz Hernandez in the women's shot put F57.

Elsewhere in the men’s competition, world record holder Jeremy Campbell of the United States will be going for a podium finish in the discus F44, while Cuban world and Paralympic champion Luis Felipe Gutiérrez and South African Paralympic gold medallist Hilton Langenhoven will battle it out in the long jump F11/12.

Results from the event will be available here.