At last year’s Dubai Grand Prix athletes set seven world records and with warm weather practically guaranteed, more records look under threat at the Dubai Club for the Disabled track.

Among the athletes toeing the line tomorrow will be Britain’s double Paralympic and world champion Georgie Hermitage, who has recovered from potentially career-ending stress injuries to her feet and legs following her success at last summer’s World Para Athletics Championships in London.

The 28-year-old Briton, who has cerebral palsy, won 100 and 400 metres gold medals in the T37 class in London, just as she had a year earlier Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

But a series of subsequent injuries left her at a point where her coaches feared she might not be able to continue with an athletics career that got fully underway in 2015 when she won two world golds.

"I've always been like 'I'm on a comeback' and it's got to the point where coaches have said, 'We cannot do this anymore, if it keeps happening at one point she will not recover,'" said Hermitage.

"So, we decided this year to offload loads of work that I would normally do on the track and stick it on cross training.

"This winter I have done half the amount of track work that I've probably done in previous years with the hope that my body stays well.

"The risk with that is that you are not going to improve as much as you'd like to, but you stay injury free - what's the lesser evil?"

The sixth year of the Grand Prix series will take in nine towns and cities across four continents during 2018, finishing in Berlin in early July.

From the Middle East, athletes will head to South America with the Brazilian Paralympic Committee’s Paralympic Training Centre in São Paulo staging the season’s second Grand Prix from April 26 to 28.

The Grand Prix series then takes in a third continent as track and field action is set to return to Beijing from May 11 until 13.

The event, which takes place at one of the training venues used for Beijing 2008, is likely to attract many of the athletes that led China to the top of the medals table at last year's World Para Athletics Championships in London.

Rieti, in Italy, was a new addition to the calendar in 2017 and the Stadio Raul Guidobaldi track is scheduled to host the fourth Grand Prix of the year from May 18 until 20.

One week later, Nottwil in Switzerland is due the host to the 2018 Grand Prix series with three days of world-class action from May 25 to 27.

 In 2017, 11 world records were broken at the Swiss track in what has become one of the most highly regarded wheelchair meetings in the world.

The month of June is set to see four Grand Prix meetings taking place around the world.

After a hugely successful inaugural Paris Grand Prix in 2017, the Stade Charléty in the French capital will once again open its doors to many of the world’s best Para athletes for two days of competition on June 14 and 15, with the overlapping Arizona Grand Prix taking place in the United States from June 15 to 17.

The penultimate Grand Prix of 2018 is due to take place from June 22 until 24 June in Tunis in Tunisia - a country that boasts plenty of home-grown talent and finished sixth on the medals table at the 2017 World Championships.

The year’s final Grand Prix will be staged in the German capital on June 30 and July 1and will act as a curtain raiser to the World Para Athletics European Championships that will take place in the same venue - the city’s Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark - just eight weeks later.