PARALYMPIC champion Jonnie Peacock will line up against his arch American rival, Richard Browne, at this month’s Great North City Games on the banks of the River Tyne.

The duo will clash in the T44 100m on the Newcastle-Gateshead Quayside on Saturday, September 12, with the City Games once again acting as the warm-up event for the following day’s Great North Run.

Peacock famously got the better of Browne on home soil at the London 2012 Paralympics, winning the T44 100m in fine style, and followed up his success with another victory at the IPC World Championships in Lyon in 2013.

However, Browne has subsequently claimed the world record and is on a two-year unbeaten streak, having seen off Peacock at the Anniversary Games in London in July.

The pair’s Tyneside meeting promises to be another explosive encounter, and will act as a prelude to next month’s IPC World Championships in Doha and next year’s Paralympic Games in Rio.

“The T44 100m, in Doha is going to be a big race, and it’s a very similar situation to Lyon in 2013,” said Peacock. “I went there with Richard having a good season, running fast times and even breaking the world record in the heats. But I know that when it gets to the final, I’m going to be on point.

“I know I can raise my game when it comes to a major championship. I’m not one to back down when the going gets tough.”

Peacock, who was five when he contracted meningococcal septicaemia and lost his right leg, trains at the British Athletics National Performance Institute in Loughborough alongside European 100m champion James Dasaolu and European 200m gold medallist Adam Gemili.

He is one of the best known Paralympians in the country, but is refusing to rest on his laurels in the wake of his success at the London Games.

“Things have moved on since the 2012 Paralympics,” he said. “I’ve been there and done that. I’ve got to think about the future.

“We’ve got the IPC World Championships in Doha later this year, then Rio, then the World Championships in London in 2017. There is still a future to be had in athletics. I want to be a part of that, and hopefully I will be.”

Lining up against Peacock and Browne at the Great North City Games will be Germany’s World Junior champion, Felix Streng, and Italy’s Emanuele Di Marino.