As well as his Paralympic 100 metres bronze medal at London 2012, Ola Abidogun has also won a silver at the 2014 IPC European Championships ©Getty Images

ParalympicsGB has announced that Ola Abidogun, Hetty Bartlett and James Freeman have been added to Britain's athletics squad for the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. 

All three athletes have been added following the redistribution of slots by the International Paralympic Committee in their events.

The trio join 48 other athletes who were selected in June and July.

Abidogun, a 2012 Paralympic bronze medallist, will compete in the men’s T47 100 metres.

He also won bronze at the most recent European Para Athletics Championships and reached the final at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships.

Both Bartlett and Freeman are set to make their Paralympic debuts after progressing through the British Athletics Futures Academy, which aims to identify, develop, prepare and support potential Paralympians towards world-class level.

Bartlett is competing in the women's T38 long jump.

She won the gold medal in the 200 metres at the 2019 Special Olympics, as well as finishing in fourth place in the long jump.

Britain took 265 athletes in total to the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro ©Getty Images
Britain took 265 athletes in total to the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro ©Getty Images

Freeman has been chosen to race in the men's T33 100m alongside Harri Jenkins and Andrew Small.

The Surrey-based athlete recently came fourth in the event at the European Para Athletics Championships in Bydgoszcz in Poland.

At Rio 2016, Britain finished third in the athletics medals table behind China and the United States.

They won a total of 33 medals, including 15 gold. 

Britain has competed at every single Summer Paralympic Games since the first edition in 1960 in Rome.

The country has finished second or third 12 times out of 15 Games but have never topped the medal table.

The best performance came at the shared 1984 edition held in Stoke Mandeville and New York where Team GB finished runner-up to the United States with 107 gold medals.