Tom Aggar, Rowing

Having only rowed for a year, Londons Tom Aggar shocked all his fellow competitors at the 2007 World Rowing Championships by storming to victory in the mens arms only single scull. The rower, who was a virtual unknown prior to the championships, broke the world best to topple the powerful Australian Dominic Monypenny off his world championship throne.

The 24-year-old former rugby player will be looking to make an impression at the 2008 Paralympic Games, where his sport makes its debut.

Andy Barrow, Rugby

Set to captain the GB rugby team in Beijing, 28-year-old Barrow made his Paralympic debut in Athens in 2004, when the team agonisingly finished fourth, going down in a tough 43-39 contest against the USA in the bronze medal match.

The London athlete, who has played rugby for 10 years after breaking his neck playing rugby union in 1997, more recently lead the team to their third consecutive victory at the European championships in 2007 to book GBs berth at the Games in Beijing Games.

Danielle Brown, Archery

The youngest member of Britains archery squad for the Beijing Games and one of our best hopes for a archery medal. The 20 year-old won individual gold at the world championships in 2007 before taking her second gold as part of the team competition.

Brown, who has put her law degree on hold to concentrate on her Paralympic Games campaign, will be one of a number of Paralympic debutants in this years archery squad.

Danny Crates, Athletics

This cheeky Essex lad is among Britains top Paralympic athletes. Current world, European and Paralympic champion for his class at the 800m, Crates was a talented rugby player before transferring his allegiance to the running track. The 35-year-old lost his right arm in a road accident in 1994, while travelling in Australia and initially continued playing rugby union until he was spotted on the rugby field and invited to try out for athletics.

The qualified diving instructor made his Paralympic debut in Sydney in 2000 when he competed at 400m to win bronze. Four years later Crates returned to the Games, having changed distances to 800m a decision that was to prove wise, after he won his first Paralympic gold.

Beijing will be his third Paralympics where he will no doubt be looking to defend his hard won title from Athens.

Tom Hall-Butcher, Fencing

This wheelchair fencer who has just turned 18 - took up the sport six years ago and soon showed he was serious when at just 12 he won a junior bronze medal.

Also a keen basketball player, Tom, who came second in the sabre at the 2005 national championships, says fencing is his best sport.

Ali Jawad, Powerlifting

Fiercely competitive and his own harshest critic, 19-year-old Londoner Ali Jawad was aiming for glory at the London Games in 2012 until he proved himself to be a real prospect for 2008 and secured a place for this summers Games. Still a junior in the world of powerlifting Jawad won junior European championship gold in 2007 and junior world championship silver in 2006 and is also three-time British champion for his weight category.

The youngest member of Britains powerlifting squad for Beijing, Jawad was a top judo player, competing internationally, until he concentrated his efforts on powerlifting. Jawad, who was born without the lower parts of his legs, has always dreamt of representing his country at a Paralympics and says he will not settle for being the best, he wants to be the greatest.

Liz Johnson, Swimming

At just 18 in Athens in 2004 Newports Liz Johnson was juggling A-levels and training when she qualified for her first Paralympic Games. Expecting to be going for the experience the youngster impressed when she won silver in the 100m breaststroke. Fast-forward two years and Johnson showed she had come on even further by winning world championship gold in Durban in 2006.

Now set to return to the ParalympicsGB team for her second Games, the swimmer who has recently completed a degree in business studies at Swansea University, will be looking to build on her success four years ago to become Paralympic champion in her best event the 100m breaststroke.

John McFall, Athletics

A keen athlete John McFall was all set to study sport at University before losing his leg in a motorcycle accident when he was just 19 while on a gap year in Thailand. Determined not to let that stop him doing what he loved the Cardiff-based sprinter soon got back into sport and is now one of Britains top medal hopes on the athletics tracks for the Beijing Games.

McFall made an impact at the 2006 IPC Athletics World Championships in Assen when he kept his cool amid a number of false starts to take the 200m bronze, before doing one better in the 100m to take silver. A year later and McFall was going from strength to strength to take gold at the 2007 Paralympic World Cup in Manchester.

Steve Palmer, Rugby

GBs second in command, Kent wheelchair rugby star Steve Palmer, travelled to his first Paralympics in Athens in 2004 and has now established himself as one of the key team members of the British side.

Thirty-five year-old Palmer plays his club rugby in the capital for the London Wheelchair Rugby Club (LWRC) and is one of the coaches that has led the side to repeated success at national and international level. Steve showed himself as a gutsy character when he lead the clubs pitch for money to Crystal Palace boss Simon Jordan on the ITV prime-time show; Fortune Million Pound Giveaway, securing the team vital funds.

Josie Pearson, Rugby

A rose among many thorns, 22-year-old Pearson will not only be the youngest member of the British wheelchair rugby team in Beijing she is also the sole female member of the team. When Josie travels to Beijing this September she will make history by becoming the first ever British women to compete in the wheelchair rugby at a Paralympic Games.

The Hereford-based athlete, who plays for the Cardiff Pirates wheelchair rugby club, was drawn to rugby for the adrenaline rush of the fast-paced game. She took up the sport following a road traffic accident in 2003 but quickly proved herself as a strong contender in a male-dominated sport and is now set to make her Paralympic debut this summer.

Matt Skelhon, Shooting

Twenty-three year-old Skelhon is a relative newcomer to shooting, having only taken up the sport two years ago. He quickly impressed the GB coaches and worked his way up the ranks to win silver and bronze at the Turkish Cup for the Disabled Shooting Tournament, just a month before selectors named him as part of the ParalympicsGB squad for Beijing.

Anthony Stephens, Swimming

Somerset born Anthony Stephens was just 18 when he made his Paralympic debut in Athens in 2004, where he impressed on his first Games outing to win silver and two bronze medals.

At the 2006 IPC Swimming World Championships Stephens showed he meant business in the pool and won gold in the 200m freestyle. Now based in Swansea for training he is set to return to the ParalympicsGB squad where he will no doubt be looking to win that elusive Paralympic gold to make up the full compliment in Beijing.

Jordan Whiley, Tennis

At just 13, Jordanne began 2006 in plaster, but worked back to match fitness to beat a player ranked inside the worlds top 50 at the North East Wheelchair Tennis Tournament in Sunderland in March, where she reached the semi-finals. This was among the performances that set Jordanne apart and showed that she would one-day be among the worlds top wheelchair tennis stars.

Now aged still just 16 Jordanne is British womens No.2 wheelchair tennis player and is currently ranked No.29 in the world a tremendous feat for a girl of her age. The GCSE student who juggles training with school work will be travelling to her first Paralympic Games in Beijing this summer.

Steve Brown, Rugby

A committed and determined wheelchair rugby player, Steve Brown has only been playing the sport for two years but is already making his mark in the GB squad.

The 27-year-old Kent athlete just missed out on selection for Beijing, despite being a relative newcomer to the sport, but is hotly tipped as a one to watch for London in 2012.

Steve, who plays for the London Wheelchair Rugby Club, alongside Barrow and Palmer, was part of the club side that won the Europa Cup in 2007 as well as the GB side that won the Astra-tech Cup in Germany in 2008.

Sarah Storey, Cycling

Almost a permanent fixture on the Paralympic scene Sarah Storey (Nee Bailey) is among Britains most decorated Paralympians. The swimmer turned cyclist made an impressive Paralympic debut in Barcelona in 1992 winning two golds and claiming two world records when she was just 14. Since then she travelled to a further three Games picking up medals of every colour along the way, before retiring from the pool in 2005.

Shortly after retiring from swimming, Storey, who was awarded an MBE in the 1998 honours list, announced she was going to try her hand at cycling and within the year was back winning medals and breaking records on the track. She is now set to travel to her first Paralympics as a cyclist.

The thirty-year-old married pilot rider Barney Storey in 2007.

Terry Bywater, Basketball

At only 25, Redcars Terry Bywater is still one of the youngest members of the GB mens wheelchair basketball team but is also now one of the most established squad members. Bywater made his Paralympic debut as a teenager in Sydney, when the team agonisingly missed out on a medal and finished fourth.

He returned to the ParalympicsGB squad in 2004 for Athens when the team clinched bronze in the dying minutes of a tough play-off with the USA. Often a high scorer for the GB side, Bywater has now been named for his third Paralympics in Beijing this summer.

David Weir, Athletics

Sutton wheelchair racer David Weir has, since his Paralympic debut in Atlanta as a teenager, gone from strength to strength in his athletics career and is now among Britains most revered Paralympic athletes.

As a 17-year-old in Atlanta, Weir missed out on the podium and took a break from athletics to miss the Sydney Games in 2000. He returned to the ParalympicsGB squad in 2004 to win bronze and silver in Athens but is now looking to the Beijing Games for his opportunity to win his first gold.

Current world champion and world record holder at a number of events, David competes in distances from 100m to marathon and has even won the London Marathon Wheelchair Race four times.