To add to its impressive calendar of events and sporting activities, Montenegro has been confirmed as the 2010 venue for the 31st World Parachuting Championships and the 5th Junior World Parachuting Championships.

The bi-annual Championships in freefall, style and accuracy landing will take place from August 28 to 04 September, 2010. The last championships were held in Slovakia in 2008 and attracted 198 competitors from 28 countries.

The announcement follows a presentation to the International Parachuting Commission and the F�d�ration of Aeronautique Internationale spearheaded by the Aeronautical Association of Montenegro and supported by the National Tourism Organisation, the Ministry of Sports, Culture and Media, the Olympic Committee of Montenegro and the Municipality of Niksic, the host town for the Championships.

According to Sasa Radovic, Director of Tourism, National Tourism Organisation of Montenegro: �These Championships will provide us with an ideal opportunity to showcase Montenegro as a destination for international events and highlight our long tradition of involvement in aerosports activities, which dates back more than 80-years.�

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Notes to Editors: The F�d�ration Aeronautieque International (FAI), the world�s air sports federation, was founded in 1905. It is an international, non-governmental and non-profit making organisation with the basic aim of furthering aeronautical and astonautical activities worldwide with a membership of some 100 member countries. All FAI parachuting contests, championships and record activities are conducted under the direction of the FAI Parachuting Commission. www.fai.org