Fastest runners on track at the Olympic Stadium

World and Paralympic record holder Lisha Huang of China competes in the women’s 100m T53 final, hoping to defend the title she won in Beijing four years ago.

Oscar Pistorius takes to the track on Sunday in the final of the men’s 200m T44, one of three gold medals he won in Beijing.

Americans Jerome Singleton, Jim Bob Bizzell and Blake Leeper are amongst a talented field all hoping to upset the South African’s plans.

The eagerly anticipated men’s 5,000m T54 final takes place, with world champion and home favourite David Weir lining up against Switzerland’s world record holder Marcel Hug, and Beijing 2008 silver medallist Kurt Fearnley.

There’s a stellar line-up too in the women’s 5000m T54 final, with the likes of world record holder and Beijing silver medallist Diane Roy, 2004 Paralympic gold medallist Wakako Tsuchida, and Britain’s world bronze medallist Shelly Woods battling it out for the top spot in London.

Brazil’s world and Paralympic champion Terezinha Guilhermina qualified quickest in the heats of the women’s 200m T11 event, and in the morning it’s time for the semi-finals. Watch out too for her compatriot Jerusa Geber Santos and China’s Juntingxian Jia as they all vie for places in the evening final.

World and Paralympic record holder Lisha Huang of China competes in the women’s 100m T53 final, hoping to defend the title she won in Beijing four years ago.

Great Britain’s Libby Clegg qualified second fastest for Sunday’s final of the women’s 100m T12, with Chinese athletes Zhou Guohua and Zhu Daqing also progressing strongly. Ukraine’s defending Paralympic champion Oxana Boturchuk also made it through.

The line-up in the men’s 400m T13 final includes in-form Mohamed Amguoun of Morocco who set a new Paralympic record of 49.04 in the qualifying rounds on Friday.

There’s plenty of action in the field events on Sunday too, starting with the final of the women’s javelin F12/13.

Tanja Dragic will be hoping to add to the European title she won earlier this year when she set a new world record (F12) of 37.85m, whilst Mingjie Gao will be hoping for a repeat of his victory in Beijing in the men’s F44 javelin.

The 31-year-old, who also set a new world record when he won gold at the IPC World Championships last year, will be tough competition for the likes of fellow Chinese athlete Changlong Gao, and Ronald Hertog from the Netherlands, who picked up silver and bronze respectively in New Zealand.

Watch out also for the final of the women’s long jump F46, where Australian world record holder and world silver medallist Carlee Beattie comes up against the young Russian who beat her to gold at the IPC World Championships, 19-year-old Nikol Rodomakina.

Rounding off the field events on Sunday is the men’s discus F11 final, where Beijing’s gold and silver medallists, Vasyl Lishchynskyi and Sebastian Baldassarri, will once again battle it out for a place at the top of the podium.

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Terezinha Guilhermina of Brazil wants to smash her own world records in London.