PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
![Mark Arendz](/sites/default/files/images/161114101824110_GettyImages-121007110.jpg)
Mark Arendz: My season highlights
The Canadian Nordic skier has just completed one of the best seasons of his career, winning two world titles in Finsterau, Germany, last February.
![Great Britain - women's goalball](/sites/default/files/images/170517124355498_GB%2BGoalball.jpg)
Laura Perry aims to win European Championships
The British goalball player believes the team is capable of reaching the top of the podium in Lahti, Finland, from 18-22 September.
![Para Ice Hockey Sport Forum in 2017](/sites/default/files/images/170516130706996_WPIH%2BForum.jpg)
Para Ice Hockey Sport Forum held in Frankfurt
Nineteen representatives from 13 countries attended the event, which covered topics such as classification, equipment and competition structure.
![Aled Davies - Rio 2016](/sites/default/files/images/170109122108478_Aled%2BDavies_Athletics_GettyImages-603213196.jpg)
Best of British: Aled Davies
Training alongside Olympic champions in the USA helped the reigning Paralympic shot put F42 champion recover his hunger for victory.
![Podium with three women in wheelchairs](/sites/default/files/images/160615105713949_GettyImages-494144924.jpg)
Para athletics explained - Seated throws
Great Britain’s Paralympic, world and European champion Jo Butterfield explains what seated throwing involves.
![Man in rowing boat](/sites/default/files/images/170118161010951_Polianskyi.jpg)
Rio 2016 champions continue form in Gavirate
Para rowers especially tested the new 2,000m distance format.
![Osijek 2017 World Shooting Para Sport World Cup - logo](/sites/default/files/images/170517081336715_Osijek%2B2017.jpg)
Shooting Para Sport World Cup in Croatia announced
Shooters will gather in Osijek in September for a chance to qualify for the 2018 World Championships.
![Dimitri Coutya of Great Britain Fencing team poses during a Beazley British Fencing Profiling Day on June 26, 2013 in London, England.](/sites/default/files/images/170105143358554_Dimitri%2BCoutya_Wheelchair%2Bfencing_GettyImages-171719622.jpg)
Double gold lifts Dimitri Coutya to No. 1
Hungary’s Richard Osvath also claimed two wins at the World Cup in Stadskanaal.
![Jianquan Tian CHN (left) vs Gang Sun CHN in the Men's Individual Épée - Category A Semi-final Wheelchair Fencing in the Carioca Arena 3 at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.](/sites/default/files/images/160915102656345_TL2-4517.jpg)
Rome to host wheelchair fencing Worlds 2017
The World Championships will be held from 6-12 November.
Countries invited to sign up for Asian Championships
The football-5 event will take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 9-18 December.