{"id":15539,"date":"2017-04-18T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=15539\/"},"modified":"2018-11-14T13:39:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T12:39:41","slug":"gustav-nygren-wins-swedish-qualification-for-cigar-smoking-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/gustav-nygren-wins-swedish-qualification-for-cigar-smoking-world-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Gustav Nygren Wins Swedish Qualification for Cigar Smoking World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2017, the official Swedish qualification tournament for the Cigar Smoking World Championship took place at Gothenburg tobacconist <a title=\"Cigars in Sweden and Gothenburg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/gothenburg-a-touch-of-new-york-in-swedens-gourmet-metropolis\/\" rel=\"\">Mellgren&#8217;s<\/a> for the 4th time. Gustav Nygren came in first with a smoking time of one hour and eighteen minutes for the official competition cigar, a Macanudo Inspirado Mareva. Karl Martin Brix Nelson followed close with an offset of only one minute. Piotr Edward Karlsson made the third place with a smoking time of one hour and fourteen minutes. <a title=\"Igor Kovacic Cigar Smoking World Championship ranking\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/darren-cioffi-sets-yet-another-world-record-at-cswc-qualification-in-sweden\/\" rel=\"\">Igor Kovacic, the best Swede in the official world record ranking<\/a>, only took the 7th place at this qualification tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The long ash competition sponsored by <a title=\"Royal Danish Cigars Expands Availability in the USA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/royal-danish-cigars-expand-in-u-s-a-with-new-distribution-agreements\/\" rel=\"\">Royal Danish Cigars<\/a> was won by Srecko Pavicevic.<\/p>\n<p>Along with other participants, all winners of the international qualifying trials will compete against one another to smoke the Macanudo Inspirado Mareva as slowly as possible at the <a title=\"Cigar Smoking World Championship in Croatia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/global-gathering-the-5th-cigar-smoking-world-championship-in-split\/\" rel=\"\">Cigar Smoking World Championship in Split, Croatia<\/a>. You can study the schedule for the <a title=\"Cigar Smoking World Championship Tournament Schedule 2017\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/cigar-smoking-world-championship-2017-qualification-tournament-schedule\/\" rel=\"\">international CSWC 2017 Qualification Tournaments<\/a> here for upcoming events.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15542\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15542\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/igor-kovacic-cigar-smoking-world-championship-sweden-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Igor Kovacic at the Swedish Cigar Smoking World Championship 2017\" width=\"770\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/igor-kovacic-cigar-smoking-world-championship-sweden-2017.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/igor-kovacic-cigar-smoking-world-championship-sweden-2017-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/igor-kovacic-cigar-smoking-world-championship-sweden-2017-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-15542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Irod Street<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_15544\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15544\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cswc-sweden-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Cigar Smoking World Championship Sweden 2017\" width=\"770\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cswc-sweden-2017.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cswc-sweden-2017-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cswc-sweden-2017-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-15544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Irod Street<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_15540\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15540\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cigar-smoking-world-championship-sweden-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Winners of the Swedish Cigar Smokin World Championship qualification tournament2017\" width=\"770\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cigar-smoking-world-championship-sweden-2017.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cigar-smoking-world-championship-sweden-2017-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cigar-smoking-world-championship-sweden-2017-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-15540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Irod Street<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_15541\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15541\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15541\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cswc-sweden-2017-winners.jpg\" alt=\"Winners of the Swedish Cigar Smokin World Championship qualification tournament2017\" width=\"770\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cswc-sweden-2017-winners.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cswc-sweden-2017-winners-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cswc-sweden-2017-winners-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-15541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Irod Street<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_15543\" style=\"width: 587px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15543\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15543\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/gugge-stafford-cigar-smoking-world-championship-sweden-winner-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Gugge Stafford wins the Swedish Cigar Smoking World Championship qualification 2017\" width=\"577\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/gugge-stafford-cigar-smoking-world-championship-sweden-winner-2017.jpg 577w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/gugge-stafford-cigar-smoking-world-championship-sweden-winner-2017-500x667.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-15543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Irod Street<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2017, the official Swedish qualification tournament for the Cigar Smoking World Championship took place at Gothenburg tobacconist Mellgren&#8217;s for the 4th 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