{"id":72332,"date":"2025-07-21T22:15:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=72332"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:15:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T20:15:59","slug":"walter-won-cswc-germany-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/walter-won-cswc-germany-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Won CSWC Germany Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The question wasn\u2019t if <\/em>he was going to win, it was how. <\/em>By how much would the reigning and three time slow smoking world champion Hauke Walter beat his opponents? The German has been one of the most reliable three-hour smokers in the world and he\u2019s definitely the most merited by now, but as you probably know, times have changed. Some of the more seasoned Cigar Smoking World Championship competitors have struggled with the new Oliva competition cigar, others have superseded their expectations. At a pre-qualifier in Kazakhstan recently, for instance, last year\u2019s runner-up Anastasia Arsenova beat her personal record from the Rocky Patel days, when she registered the fourth best time ever. 3 hours 42 minutes and 6 seconds is actually seven minutes better than Walter\u2019s personal best, and just eleven minutes short of Klaudia Ide\u2019s world record.<\/p>\n

At the 8th<\/sup> edition of the German national championships at the well renowned Cigarworld in D\u00fcsseldorf, Walter actually joined the struggling side. Not that he didn\u2019t win, he did, by almost an hour. He just didn\u2019t do as well as he\u2019s used to.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy time wasn’t good by my standards,\u201d he says. \u201cThe cigar didn’t have a nice, even burn and it wasn’t smoking as I liked it to. It kept wanting to drag itself forward, and I had to counteract it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the race intensified, it was clear that the familiar rhythms had shifted,\u201d CSWC founder Marko Bilic says. \u201cWhile in control, Walter finished with a time of 2 hours 40 minutes and 30 seconds \u2014 impressive, yet below his usual benchmark<\/p>\n

In pure numbers, this is definitely not<\/em> a very good performance by the \u201cThe Iceman\u201d. We\u2019re used to more, and above all, he <\/em>is used to more, but he\u2019s not alone. Rolf Broch and Tormod Skaaras from Norway performances were equivalent to his, to name just two of his closest rivals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new Oliva CSWC Mareva competition cigar has introduced a fresh dynamic,\u201d Bilic says. \u201cUnlike previous years, its unique combustion behavior tested even the best. This cigar requires a new level of adaptability.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, with some of his fellow competitors maintaining their level or even improving it, the run for the world champion title seems tighter than ever.<\/p>\n

Behind Walter\u2019s fourth consecutive win, Oliver Steinh\u00e4user, came in second at 1 hour 49 minutes and 13 seconds. About ten minutes after him, Christoph Herb claimed third place.<\/p>\n

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  1. Hauke Walter 2:40:30<\/li>\n
  2. Oliver Steinh\u00e4user 1:49:13<\/li>\n
  3. Christoph Herb 1:39:30<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    CSWC in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":72333,"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\/72332"}],"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=72332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72335,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72332\/revisions\/72335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}