About championship - II. European Fire-Fighters and Rescuers Championship in Fire Sport

Ministry of Interior - General Headquarter of Fire Rescue Brigade of the Czech Republic
Fire Rescue Brigade of Moravian-Silesian Region
Czech Association of Fire Officers

hold in the patronage of

Minister of Interior Frantisek Bublan
Head Officer of Moravian-Silesian Region Evzen Tosenovsky
Lord Mayor of Statutory City of Ostrava Ales Zednik

II. European Fire-Fighters and Rescuers
Championship in Fire Sport
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The championship will be held in city stadium in Ostrava-Vitkovice in September 6-11, 2005. The last event - fire attack, will take place in the area of Mosnov airport on the occasion of "Day of NATO 2005" in September 11, 2005.

The event is conceived as an open European Championship which supposes not only the participation of European teams (e.g. Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Austria, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, Italy and Czech Republic) but most probably will participate also the team outside Europe (e.g. Iran - organizer of World Championship 2006, China, Mongolia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan). Now are expected to come18-20 teams.

In present days is the World Federation of Fire-Fighters and Rescue Workers discussing the possibility of having fire sport as an demonstration sport in Olympic Games 2008 in Peking.

Czech national team achieved significant successes in the past years. In the first World Championship 2002 in Moscow won the Czech team the fourth place in total, in the first European Championship 2003 in Saint - Petersburg they won the third place in total and in the second World Championship 2004 in Belarus won the Czech national team again the third place in total and became the World Champion in fire attack.

The whole championship will be held on occasion of 60th anniversary of foundation of the professional fire brigade in Moravian-Silesian Region.

	On behalf of organizational committee Col. Zdenek Nytra