Global swimming champion Stephanie Millward is aiming to end an amazing year by smashing another world record this weekend – and securing a major funding boost for 2010.

The 27-year-old from Corsham has just flown back from Brazil, where she won four gold medals, three silvers and a bronze at the IPC World Championships.

University of Bath trio Liz Johnson, Kate Grey and David Hill also won seven medals between them at the event.

Millward will be back in the pool on Sunday, bidding to add the 100m long-course backstroke world record to the new S9 100m short-course freestyle standard she set in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday.

And there is added incentive, with Millward revealing: "If I get the record, it would mean an extra £600 per month for me next year.

"I'm in the B grade at the moment, which means I will get £1,600 a month in National Lottery funding, but if I can get the long-course world record I would go up to the A grade of £2,200. That would make a big difference.

"Everything is set up fantastically well for 2010, it should be very exciting. I have had a brilliant year – a hard one because I have had to put in a lot of work but it has been amazing."

Since representing Great Britain at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing, Millward has gone from strength to strength, enjoying success at the World Cup in Manchester and winning five gold medals at the IPC European Championships in Iceland.

But she saved her best for the World Championships, touching the wall first in the 200m individual medley and 100m freestyle as well as being part of the successful 4x100m medley and freestyle relay quartets.

She also won 100m butterfly bronze and silver medals in the 100m backstroke, 100m IM and 400m freestyle, but said it was her performance in Saturday's 100m freestyle final – her time of 1:01.95mins took nearly three seconds off the previous world record – which she was most proud of.

"It was a nice, easy swim and I felt like I could have gone a lot faster," said Millward, who helps out at Corsham Swimming Club while not training in Swansea.

"It was a wonderful week because I swam well throughout. I was concentrating on setting personal bests so the medals came as a lovely bonus."

And she got another surprise on Sunday when she won the London 2012 Paralympic Hopeful category at the BBC West Sports Personality of the Year awards, which were staged at the University of Bath.

The award was collected on her behalf by her proud mum Linda but Millward was able to pass on her thanks via a live link-up to Brazil.

"That was very unexpected," she said. "I was sat there in my room in Rio, listening to the shortlist being read out, and then I heard 'the winner is Stephanie Millward'.

"All I could think was, 'oh my word, I've got to make a speech', so I just hope I remembered to thank everybody!"

Also tasting success at the World Championships in Brazil were University of Bath swimmers Johnson, Grey and Hill.

Johnson smashed the SB6 100m breaststroke world record as she enjoyed an emphatic victory, finishing almost 15 seconds clear of silver medallist Katrina Porter from Australia.

It was her third medal of the championships after winning bronze in both the 100m and 200m IM.

Grey set a British record to take silver in the SB9 100m breaststroke and then added a bronze in the 100m IM, after earlier breaking the world record in the heats.

Hill helped Britain's 4x100m 34-points freestyle relay quartet to bronze. The team, including Matthew Walker, Sam Hynd, and Graham Edmunds, finished third in 3:54.23 behind Australia, who set a world record, and Brazil.

Hill followed that up with his first individual medal at a world championships, another bronze in the S9 100m backstroke.

Johnson, Grey and Hill are all coached at the university by Mark Skimming.