The 25-year-old, who took six gold medals at London 2012 to add to the four he won four years earlier in Beijing, will start as the hot favourite in the majority of S5 events as he attempts to add to the 11 gold medals he has claimed over the past two World Championships.

Another multiple Paralympic champion, triple gold medallist Andre Brasil, will also compete in Canada.

Brasil won seven gold medals and one silver in Rio four years ago at the IPC Swimming World Championships 25m in the S10 class, and will also be seen as one of his nation's major contenders for medals.

Triple Paralympic gold medallist Andre Brasil will compete at the World Championships in Montreal

A total of 12 members of the team confirmed for Montreal were in the squad when Brazil finished fifth overall in the medal table at Eindhoven 2010 with 14 gold, 3 silver and 9 bronze medals, and 15 of them competed at London 2012, where the team achieved 14 podium finishes.

The states with the highest number of representatives in the competition is Rio Grande do Norte with five athletes, followed by São Paulo with four, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais with three athletes each, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul with two athletes each and Ceará, Tocantins, Pernambuco and Paraíba with one athlete apiece.

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