The third day of Athletics is one of the busiest days of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Athletics calendar. Only one evening session will be held with 17 medal events scheduled on Wednesday.
Medallists from the Athens 2004 Paralympics and world record holders will be setting the tracks ablaze on Wednesday evening.
The crowd puller will undoubtedly be Canada's Golden Girl Chantal Petitclerc who will be looking to add on to her personal medal tally.
Petitclerc, who will be participating in her fifth Paralympics, has already won 16 Paralympic medals over the last four Games and holds the world records for the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m in the T54 class (athletes in wheelchair with different levels of spinal cord injuries and amputations).
At the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, Petitclerc will compete in the T54 class in 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m and 4x100m relay. This evening for the Women's 100m T54, she will be looking to break her own world record of 15.91s.
Another speedster who is hoping to clip a few seconds off her record is Yunidis Castillo of Cuba. Her world record of 12.16s in the Women's 100m T46 (athletes with different levels of amputations and other disabilities including les Autres, eg. dwarfism) was created in Rio de Janeiro in 2007.
Andre Beaudoin of Canada, winner of the Men's 200m T52 (athletes in wheelchair with different levels of spinal cord in juries and amputations) in 2004, will be hoping to repeat that performance and better his Paralympic record of 31.22s in this event. He will face some tough competition from fellow Canadian Dean Bergeron who holds the world record of 30.34s, achieved in Atlanta, USA in 2007.