{"id":68025,"date":"2024-06-25T22:24:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T20:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=68025"},"modified":"2024-06-25T22:24:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T20:24:20","slug":"latvian-cswc-winner-equals-last-years-winning-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/latvian-cswc-winner-equals-last-years-winning-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvian CSWC Winner Equals Last Year\u2019s Winning Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Once again, the 19 century mansion, KK fon Stricka villa in Riga, posed as battle stage when the Latvian qualifier for the Cigar Smoking World Championship took place in the beginning of June. Participants from five countries, <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania and Czech Republic fought it out during almost two hours before the winner was crowned. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Unlike the settings, the top three was entirely new, though, and it was a close call between <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Oleg Roschin from Riga Cigar Club and Harri Kalliokoski from Kirja Club in Finland. In the end the former came out on top. Roschin finished at 1 hour and 55 minutes, exactly five minutes longer than Kallikoski.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThe two were in the lead during the entire competition and remained close until the very end,\u201d organizer Dmitry Smirnov says. \u201cWhen Kallikoski went out a few millimeters away from the ring Roschin was able to get a comfortable win.\u201d <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Third place went to Elnur Rakhimov from Riga Cigar Club.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">Fun fact, Roschin\u2019s time was the same as <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Alexander Ostrovskiy\u2019s winning time from last year, to the second.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">1.<\/span><span class=\"s4\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Oleg Roschin 1:55:00<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">2.<\/span><span class=\"s4\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Harri Kalliokoski 1:50:00<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">3.<\/span><span class=\"s4\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Elnur Rakhimov 1:34:05 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the 19 century mansion, KK fon Stricka villa in Riga, posed as battle stage when the Latvian qualifier for the Cigar Smoking World Championship took place in the beginning of June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":68026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[49,63,44],"tags":[5366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68025"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68028,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68025\/revisions\/68028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}