Rio Paralympics: The stars of 2016

From Iraq War vets turned triathletes to teenage sprinters battling cerebral palsy, this month's Paralympics will showcase the sporting talent and courage of more than 4,000 athletes.

Here's our guide to some of the stars tipped to light up the Rio 2016 Games.

They call him Brazil's answer to Michael Phelps.

The swimmer is the nation's most successful sportsman of the last decade. At the 2008 Games in Beijing he won nine medals -- more than any other athlete -- and at London 2012 he added six more Paralympic golds and set four world records.

The 28-year-old home hero is super-cool about comparisons with Phelps, the most-decorated Olympian of all time with 28 medals in his trophy cabinet.

"You have to remember I'm a lot better looking," Dias once joked with British newspaper

Dad-of-two Dias will be the danger man and the darling of the pool, and when he goes for gold the Aquatics Center will be the ONLY place to be in Brazil.