The sixteen finals on the second last day of Athletics will give track and field athletes a last shot at medals. At last count, Canadian Chantal Petitclerc's collection of four gold medals tops others and she could make it five on Tuesday night. Sanaa Benhama of Marocco and Oscar Pistorius of South Africa each go for gold No. 3 and Prawat Wahoram of Thailand aims for his second.

Women's 200m T12

Athens 2004 gold medalist and world record (24.99) holder Assia El'hannouni of France will be trying for her second gold (first one in 400m) but so will Oxana Boturchuk of Ukraine (100m-gold, 400m-silver).

Women's 100m - T13

Morocoo's Sanaa Benhama is the one to beat as she aims for her third gold (one each from 200m and 400m), setting a new Paralympic record in the heats with 12.38. The next best time was by Ilse Hayes of South Africa, 12.58.

Men's 400m - T11

World record holder (50.03) and Athens gold medalist Jose Armando of Algeria will want to retain his crown but it is Oleksandr Ivaniukhin of Ukraine who clocked the fastest qualifying time 50.79, ahead of 100m and 200m winner Lucas Prado of Brazil.

Women's 200m - T11

Adria Santos of Brazil holds the world record (24.99) from her Sydney 2000 win but it is teammate Terezinha Guilhermina who is running fast times here in Beijing. Look out also for Athens gold medalist Wu Chunmiao of China who has already won the 100m – T11.

Men's 200m - T13

Jason Smyth of Iran has been consistently clocking faster and faster times and starts the Men's 200m – T13 as world record holder with 21.81. He has the gold and the world record for the 100m-T13. His closest rival could be Russia's Alexey Labzin who clocked 21.86 in the heats on Monday morning. Athens gold medalist Andre Luiz Andrade of Brazil did not qualify.

Women's Discus - F12/13

Tang Hongxia of China has already won the Shot Put gold and will be aiming to add the Discus gold to her collection. Also in this event is Tamara Sivakova of Belarus who won the Shot Put silver.

Men's Shot Put - F11/12

David Casinos of Spain holds the F11 world record (15.26m) from Sydney 2000 but can expect some tough competition from Discus gold medalist Vasyl Lishchynskyi of Ukraine.

Classes 11, 12 and 13 cover athletes with different levels of visual impairment.

Women's 100m - T36

China's Wang Fang will be hoping for her second gold after winning the 200m on Saturday and in the same line-up is Claudia Nicoleitzik of Germany, the 200m silver medalist.

Men's 200m - T37

Fanie van der Merwe of South Africa will be looking for the same results as the 100m when he won gold ahead of a similar line-up, including Ma Yuxi of China and Sofiane Hamdi of Algeria. World record (23.88) holder and Athens bronze medalist Mohamed Allek did not qualify.

Classes 35 to 38 cover ambulant athletes with different levels of cerebral palsy

Men's 1500m - T54

Thailand's Prawat Wahoram is on course for another win, to add to his gold in 5000m and Silver in 4X400m relay, when he clocked 3:00.10 to qualify ahead of Kurt Fearnley of Australia. World record (2:55.72) holder David Weir of Great Britain is also in the line-up. Weir already has gold in 800m, silver in 400m and bronze in 5000m.

Women's 1500m - T54

World record holder Petitclerc will not only be going for gold, she will be looking to beat her own time of 3:24.23. This win will make it her fifth gold in Beijing. Teammate Diane Roy is close behind, having already won a silver and two bronze medals (5000m, 400m and 800m).

Men's 100m - T53

Pichet Krunnget of Thailand, the world record (14.72) holder, is the man to beat and he's already helped his country win silver in the 4x100m relay - T53/54.

Women's Discus - F57/58

Nadia Medjemedj of Algeria comes into this event as the F57 world record (30.59m) holder but the other athletes in the list show some competitive season's best scores.

Classes 51 to 58 cover wheelchair athletes with different levels of spinal cord injuries and amputations

Men's 400m - T44

South Africa's Oscar Pistorius will be raring to go for a third gold after his wins in the 100m and 200m, in a similar line up with Jim Bob Bizzell of United States, and Ian Jones of Great Britain, who took the silver and bronze in the 200m. It is Danny Andrews of United States however, who is the Athens gold medalist and world record (51.24) holder.

Three relay races are on Tuesday and Australia are in the lead as world record holders in the Women's 4x100m - T53/54 (1:03.87) from Sydney 2000, and the Men's 4x100m - T35-38 (46.18) clocked in the Netherlands in 2006. The Men's 4x100m - T42-46 world record (43.06) belongs to the United States also from the 2006 World Championships in the Netherlands.

(BOCOG September 16, 2008)