Slater, who won gold in the Brazilian city in the women's 4×100 metre medley relay 34 points event, was presented with a plaque and certificate by a councillor of the Lancashire town, Rupert Swarbrick.

She is a double Paralympic medallist after also winning silver in the women's S8 100m butterfly and was invited to Preston's Council Chambers by Mayor John Collins to display her medals.

"Thank you to the Mayor of Preston and Preston Council for recognising my achievements - a fantastic day," Slater said to the Lancashire Evening Post.

The 25-year-old was an able bodied athlete but, after suffering nerve damage to her left arm, switched to Para-sport.

Slater claimed an impressive haul of seven gold medals on her International Paralympic Committee (IPC) European Championships debut in the Dutch city of Eindhoven in 2014.

Prior to that, on her IPC World Championship debut in 2013 in the Canadian city of Montreal, Slater won silver in both the 100m butterfly, 200m individual medley and medley relay gold.

At Rio 2016, the British women’s 4x100m medley relay 34 points team lowered their world record on the way to gold.

Stephanie Millward held out to touch in first in 4min 45.23sec and break the three-year-old former best by 0.98 seconds.

Alice Tai and Claire Cashmore were the other members of the team.

"The vast majority of us will have no idea how hard it is to become an Olympic medal winner," said Swarbrick.

"But we wanted to show our appreciation of the success Stephanie enjoyed in Rio with gold and silver medals in the pool.

"We are proud of her."