Nathan Maguire brought back a Paralympic silver medal from the universal relay in Tokyo three years ago.

In Paris this summer he will be passing on the relay baton to bride-to-be Hannah Cockroft before the two tie the knot three weeks later.

Salford’s Maguire, a T54 wheelchair racer, will compete at his third Paralympics this summer, going in the 400m, 800m and 1500m – he is Commonwealth champion in the latter.

It is a slightly different programme to in Japan for the delayed Tokyo Games, where he joined Libby Clegg, Jonnie Peacock and Ali Smith to bring home mixed relay silver.

This time around, it is T34 racer Cockroft, a seven-time Paralympic gold medallist, who will take her place in the relay, which sees a visually impaired athlete starts things off, followed by an amputee sprinter.

Then a person with cerebral palsy runs the third leg before handing over to a wheelchair racer to finish – with two men and two women in each relay team.

Maguire explained: “I’m not doing the relay this time. Because it’s a universal relay and there are so many different aspects to that, with the male-female aspect as well.

“I’ll be passing on the baton to Hannah in the relay this time. It’s staying in the family so at least the medal stays around us, that’s quite nice.”

This will be the third time that Maguire and Cockroft have competed together at the Paralympics. But after the experiences of Rio and Tokyo, this time they have the added challenge of planning a wedding while competing at the highest level.

Maguire added: “We bit off a bit more than we could chew, I think. It’s a bigger job than we expected. We’re getting married three weeks after the Paralympics Closing Ceremony so we’re trying to get everything sorted.

“I think we’ve got half the country coming out to Paris with my parents to come and watch! To have that home support is always really, really special. I know that Hannah’s family are coming out as well. Tokyo, we had nobody there, it was really odd. It’s going to be a bit of a full circle to be able to race in front of kind of a home crowd.

“It’s back in Europe, and so many Brits are going to be able to make that journey over. We live 20 miles away over the Channel. So many people can come. It was also different in Tokyo because of the time difference. There were points where we were racing at 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning, no one is stumbling onto that.

“The fact we will be on prime-time TV at home, it’s a great opportunity for us as para-athletes to push that para sport agenda down the throats of the British public and really show what we can do.”

Competition in Paris will put the pair front and centre of the public consciousness.

But prior to that, Maguire and Cockroft will star in an upcoming documentary called Path to Paris: Paralympic Dreams which is going to air on August 25 and is project from Channel 4 and British Athletics, supported by The National Lottery – who have been crucial to Maguire’s progress.

He said: “If you speak to any athlete at the Olympics or the Paralympic Games, they would not be on that start line without The National Lottery’s support. It’s just so huge and we would not be able to compete without it. I think that is what really needs hammering home. It is the lifeblood of British sport.”

The documentary follows the fortunes of track and field athletes in their preparations for Paris 2024, giving viewers a unique insight into the journey an athlete takes, and the sacrifices they make to be able to compete for Paralympic gold.

For Maguire, Path to Paris can be a landmark moment for coverage of parasport, where the focus can shift to elite sport and away from the backstory of the athlete’s disability.

He said: “It was really special to have the documentary following us through the year and promoting how hard para-athletes really train, how hard we work.

“The traditional documentary about an athlete with a disability is that you have the violins out and it’s all about the back story. Whereas this one, it took a spin on it and turned it on its head. It looked at how fast we are, how strong we are, how fast we can push, how far we can throw and how far we can jump.

“I want it to be like we talk about Olympians, I want us to be elite, I want us to talk about how amazing we are as sportspeople rather than ‘Look what they have been through’.

“At the Olympics, with Keely Hodgkinson, they mentioned that she had had this issue when she was younger and had lost her hearing in one ear. It was maybe mentioned twice in the whole Games. If that were the Paralympics, they would constantly hammering it home whereas that is what we need to get to. We need to get to the point where it’s about the performance on the track, rather than how we got there.”

National Lottery players have transformed athletics in the UK, with more than £300 million invested since funding began, supporting both grassroots sport and elite athletes. A new documentary - Path to Paris: Paralympic Dreams airing on Sunday 25th August at 4:55pm on Channel 4 - follows five British athletes as they prepare for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games and offers a unique insight into how National Lottery players support them on their journey.