{"id":68059,"date":"2024-06-27T15:03:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T13:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=68059"},"modified":"2024-06-27T15:03:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T13:03:06","slug":"daniel-friedenthaler-defended-his-title-in-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/daniel-friedenthaler-defended-his-title-in-austria\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Friedenthaler Defended his Title in Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Daniel Friedenthaler proved he\u2019s Austria\u2019s superior slow smoker. When the national qualifier for the Cigar Smoking World Championship took place in Vienna in the middle of June he defended his title from last year and beat the competition with over an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Friedenthaler, who holds 12<sup>th<\/sup> place in the all-time top 20, had a good night at 2 hours 33 minutes and 40 seconds. Still, he wasn\u2019t the star of the show. It\u2019s hard to be when the reigning champion is on the guest list.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHauke Walter and his wife took part in the competition in Vienna,\u201d organizer Mirko Ivanic says. \u201cFollowing the competition there was a buffet and fine drinks, and the world champion, like the gentleman he is, shared tricks and tips and funny stories with the other participants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walter smoked for 3 hours 35 minutes and 10 seconds, and his wife Astrid Walter finished at 2 hours 2 minutes and 20 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Runner-up in Austria this year was Andrea Palmer, who smoked for 1 hour 23 minutes and 40 seconds, about three and a half minutes ahead of Ali Iravani in third place.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Daniel Friedenthaler 2:33:40<\/li>\n<li>Andrea Palmer 1:23:40<\/li>\n<li>Ali Iravani 1:20:15<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Daniel Friedenthaler proved he\u2019s Austria\u2019s superior slow smoker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":68060,"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\/68059"}],"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=68059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68063,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68059\/revisions\/68063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}