{"id":15670,"date":"2017-04-27T14:02:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=15670\/"},"modified":"2018-11-14T13:38:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T12:38:50","slug":"norway-to-send-knut-are-hole-to-cigar-smoking-world-championship-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/norway-to-send-knut-are-hole-to-cigar-smoking-world-championship-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway to Send Knut Are Hole to Cigar Smoking World Championship 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Augusto Cigars and SOL Cigar Co. hosted the <a title=\"Norway has held their first slow smoking contest ever\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/norway-has-held-their-first-slow-smoking-contest-ever\/\">second Norwegian Cigar Smoking World Championship (CSWC) qualification tournament in Norway<\/a> on April 19, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Christoffer Wahl Sundli, Norway&#8217;s previous champion, arrived first this day, eager to defend his title. He put up a good fight but was beaten by only 18 seconds by Silver Randalu, who took second place. Neither had a chance against this year\u2019s winner Knut Are Hole with a smoking time of 1:30:50, almost 20 minutes longer than 2nd and 3rd place. He will participate in the <a title=\"Global Gathering: The 5th Cigar Smoking World Championship in Split\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/global-gathering-the-5th-cigar-smoking-world-championship-in-split\/\">Cigar Smoking World Championship finale in Split<\/a>, Croatia in September 2017, as he did last year.<\/p>\n<p>The three best smokers received a box of Macanudo cigars and a beautiful Macanudo cutter from Colibri. In addition, the winner received a ticket to the weekend in Split.<\/p>\n<p>The current world record is held by Darren Cioffi with a total smoking time of 170 minutes and 9 seconds for the Mareva sized competition cigar, a Macanudo Inspirado.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15671\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Oystein-Kleven-Augusto-Cigars-Jeremy-Casdagli-Christoffer-Wahl-Sundli-Silver-Randalu-Knut-Are-Hole.jpg\" alt=\"Cigar Smoking World Championship at Augusto Cigars in Oslo\" width=\"770\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Oystein-Kleven-Augusto-Cigars-Jeremy-Casdagli-Christoffer-Wahl-Sundli-Silver-Randalu-Knut-Are-Hole.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Oystein-Kleven-Augusto-Cigars-Jeremy-Casdagli-Christoffer-Wahl-Sundli-Silver-Randalu-Knut-Are-Hole-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Oystein-Kleven-Augusto-Cigars-Jeremy-Casdagli-Christoffer-Wahl-Sundli-Silver-Randalu-Knut-Are-Hole-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Back row (from left):<\/strong> \u00d8ystein Kleven of Augusto Cigars, Jeremy Casdagli, Christoffer Wahl Sundli, Silver Randalu and Knut Are Hole; <strong>Front row (from left):<\/strong> Marko Bilic and Nikolaj Siefert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augusto Cigars and SOL Cigar Co. hosted the second Norwegian Cigar Smoking World Championship (CSWC) qualification tournament in Norway on April 19, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":15672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[53,49,2808,2796],"tags":[2255,5366,4136,1986],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}