In what was the Paralympic version of the Olympics' "Super Saturday", wheelchair racing stars Hannah Cockcroft and David Weir also took gold medals.

But it was Peacock's race that was extra special.

As well as the young British star, who had loaded expectation upon himself by breaking the world record in America three months earlier, there was defending champion Oscar Pistorius of South Africa on the start line, who was so popular in the Olympic Stadium that he may as well have been British.

Also in the mix was the reigning world champion Jerome Singleton of the United States, who like Pistorius, had a track record of coping with pressure on the big stage.

That was something Peacock lacked.

The drama increased as the 80,000 spectators began chanting "Pea-cock, Pea-cock, Pea-cock."

It was the only time an athlete's name was chanted in the Olympic Stadium during the entire London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, and Peacock even had to request that the crowd settle down so the race could get underway.

The tension then became unbearable as there was the most dramatic of false-starts.

But finally, the gun went, and the rest is history.

Peacock was a picture of pure ecstasy as he crossed the line with a peak audience of 6.3 million viewers tuning in – the biggest UK audience for live Paralympic sport ever.

But little did Peacock actually prepare for how such a short period of time could have such an impact on his future.

We spoke together at Surrey Sports Park in Guildford on the side-lines of the first ever ParalympicsGB Sports Fest.

Peacock was unsurprisingly the star-attraction and was mobbed throughout the day for hundreds of pictures and autographs. But the teenage sensation was still smiling as we spoke together.

"I didn't think that race would change my life this much," he told me with the surprise still clear in his voice.

"It has all been quite dramatic and it is quite weird with people giving me all this attention because I don't feel like deserve it that much. I feel like there are many more people in the world that have done better things than me.

"I actually feel bad taking the attention sometimes, even though I do enjoy it.

"But as a person, I don't think I have changed and I'm still finding time to do the fun things in life.

"I still see my friends, I got to Nandos and I go to the pub every now and again which is nice and it is good to help you feel normal."

Perhaps one of the few who can relate to Peacock's newfound celebrity is actually Pistorius.

The South African has long been a role model for the Brit and their stories are not overly dissimilar.

Pistorius had both legs amputated when he was 11 months old due to the absence of a fibula bone in both. Peacock has his right leg amputated below the knee aged five when he contracted meningitis, resulting in the disease killing the tissues in the leg.

After learning to use prosthetics, both Pistorius and Peacock showed huge talent for sport and now, both their phenomenal achievements and good looks have made them poster boys of the Paralympics.

Peacock though, admits he hasn't seen his South African friend for a while.

"Oscar sent me a quick direct message on Twitter shortly after the Paralympics but we haven't actually spoken since then," he explained. "But it will be really nice to talk to him in the future and I'm sure I will. He's a great guy and he's got time for every single person. He's been a big role model to me and I think he's a role model for a lot of other athletes out there so it is always great to speak to him."

Of the great 100m Paralympic race itself, where he actually beat Pistorius for the first time ever, Peacock remembers it vividly, particularly his name reverbarating around the giant Stadium. "That was the first time I've heard someone chant my name and it was very unexpected," he said.

"But looking back now, it was a really good lesson for me in terms of my sporting career to have something big like that happen and to be able to deal with it. I'm kind of glad it happened with a home crowd at the Paralympics. It is probably never going to happen again so it was a once-in-a-life time opportunity that I'm glad I've experienced."

And when he crossed the line, he certainly remembers that feeling.

"It was relief, just massive relief because I knew I was fast enough to do it and it was just mentally holding it together," he said.

"So when I did cross the line, I shouted: 'Thank F***'! So sorry to those people who can lip-read! But it really was so surreal and so fantastic.

Jonnie Peacock became an instant celebrity after winning the 100m T44 final, blue-ribbon event of the London 2012 Paralympics

"Coming into the race, I really thought I could do it. I mean, I knew I was a real favourite after I broke the world record in America in a high class field a few month earlier and I knew if I could beat the Americans on their own turf, I would have a pretty good chance of winning, or at least getting a medal at London.

"So that American race was a big tester for me. When it went so well and I won it in a world record, I was so happy and confident.

"But I came back and then began to worry that I might turn up to the Games in different form. But after the heats where I ran the faster time, into a headwind, I really started to believe that I would do it."

Now that he is at the top of the pile, Peacock admits he is already looking at the men that will want to take his prize scalp in the coming years.

"I think there are threats out there for me," he said.

"Richard Browne, the guy who won the silver behind me at London 2012, has improved a lot in a short space of time like me so he is probably the biggest threat to me in the short term. Blake Leeper is another who I think is strong and to be honest,