{"id":15755,"date":"2017-05-08T12:01:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T10:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=15755\/"},"modified":"2018-11-14T13:30:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T12:30:50","slug":"oleg-pedan-wins-russias-qualification-tournament-for-cswc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/oleg-pedan-wins-russias-qualification-tournament-for-cswc\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleg Pedan wins Russia\u2019s Qualification Tournament for CSWC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday in St. Petersburg, La Gran Fumada Russia, organized by the Horse Power cigar club, saw Oleg Pedan once again taking the title with a smoking time of 2:23:45 for the official competition cigar, a Macanudo Inspirado Mareva. The two other best slow smokers are Alexander Shagai (2:14:31) and Alexander Andriushkevitch (01:49:33). Oleg Pedan is currently the best ranked Russian smoker in the competition, being three minutes short of the <a title=\"Cigar Smoking World Championship 2016 \u2013 The Results\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/cigar-smoking-world-championship-2016-the-results\/\">current world record held by Darren Cioffi<\/a> (USA) with a smoking time of 2:50:09.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon, Guillaume Tesson, member of Cigar Journal\u2019s team, gave a lecture about France and cigars, while the participants enjoyed a Quai d\u2019Orsay ER France 2015 Robusto Diplomatico. He also signed for the first time the Russian edition of his Petit Larousse des Cigares. At the end of the lecture, two participants (Andrei Malinin (Moscow) and Kaido Raandalu (Tallinn)) won a return ticket St. Petersburg \/ Paris to attend the <a title=\"French CSWC Tournament to Take Place at Big Smoke Paris 2017\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/french-cswc-tournament-to-take-place-at-big-smoke-paris-2017\/\">Big Smoke Paris on June 24<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The very same morning, 18 participants gathered for a blind tasting of Cuban cigars. Competitors had to recognize three cigars: a Partagas Aristocrats (Petit Cetros), a<br \/>\nPartagas Super Partagas (Cremas) and a Romeo y Julieta Short Churchill (Robustos). The best tasters were: Oleg Pedan, Sergei Galevsky and Cigar Smoking World Championship founder Marko Bilic. Artem Erenburg, former Habanosommelier for Russia in 2010, supervised the tasting.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 75 people competed in each smoking \/ tasting session and around 100 joined the gala dinner on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15778\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15778\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/la-gran-fumada-russia-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Cigar Smoking World Championship Qualification Tournament in Russia 2017\" width=\"770\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/la-gran-fumada-russia-2017.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/la-gran-fumada-russia-2017-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/la-gran-fumada-russia-2017-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-15778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Horse Power Cigar Club<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_15777\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15777\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cigar-smoking-world-championship-russia-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Cigar Smoking World Championship Qualification Tournament in Russia 2017\" width=\"770\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cigar-smoking-world-championship-russia-2017.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cigar-smoking-world-championship-russia-2017-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cigar-smoking-world-championship-russia-2017-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-15777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Horse Power Cigar Club<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_15776\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15776\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15776\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cswc-qualification-russia-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Cigar Smoking World Championship Qualification Tournament in Russia 2017\" width=\"770\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cswc-qualification-russia-2017.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cswc-qualification-russia-2017-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cswc-qualification-russia-2017-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-15776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Horse Power Cigar Club<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_15775\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15775\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15775\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cigar-smoking-world-championship-qualification-russia-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Slow Smoking Qualification Tournament in Russia 2017\" width=\"770\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cigar-smoking-world-championship-qualification-russia-2017.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cigar-smoking-world-championship-qualification-russia-2017-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cigar-smoking-world-championship-qualification-russia-2017-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-15775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Horse Power Cigar Club<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_15779\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15779\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/oleg-pedan-alexander-shagai-cswc-russia.jpg\" alt=\"Cigar Smoking World Championship Qualification Tournament in Russia 2017\" width=\"770\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/oleg-pedan-alexander-shagai-cswc-russia.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/oleg-pedan-alexander-shagai-cswc-russia-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/oleg-pedan-alexander-shagai-cswc-russia-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-15779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Horse Power Cigar Club<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_15772\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15772\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/oleg-pedan-cigar-smoking-world-championship-russia-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Oleg Pedan wins Russian Slow Cigar Smoking Competition 2017\" width=\"770\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/oleg-pedan-cigar-smoking-world-championship-russia-2017.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/oleg-pedan-cigar-smoking-world-championship-russia-2017-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/oleg-pedan-cigar-smoking-world-championship-russia-2017-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-15772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Horse Power Cigar Club<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_15773\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15773\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/la-gran-fumada-russia-2017-cswc.jpg\" alt=\"Winners of the 2017 Slow Smoking Qualification Tournament in Russia\" width=\"770\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/la-gran-fumada-russia-2017-cswc.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/la-gran-fumada-russia-2017-cswc-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/la-gran-fumada-russia-2017-cswc-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-15773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Horse Power Cigar Club<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oleg Pedan once again took the title of best russian competitor at the qualification tournament for the Cigar Smoking World Championship held in St. 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