{"id":72775,"date":"2025-08-18T17:39:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=72775"},"modified":"2025-08-18T17:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T15:39:05","slug":"new-cswc-champion-in-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/new-cswc-champion-in-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"New CSWC Champion in R\u00e9union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With this year\u2019s addition of Mauritius, neighboring island R\u00e9union is no longer the most remote qualifier of the Cigar Smoking World Championship, but it\u2019s still pretty far away from everything. 800 kilometers east of Madagascar, under the tropical skies of Saint-Denis, slow smokers gathered for a second time to crown the champion of this small island in the Indian Ocean.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Just like last year, the competition was organized by J\u00e9r\u00f4me and Sabrina Fontaine-Monetti from Corita Cigars at the atmospheric Rhumerie de La R\u00e9union. After a hearty lunch, the race was on.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFrom the very first puffs, it was clear that the local aficionados had taken their game to another level since last year,\u201d CSWC founder Marko Bilic says. \u201cThe room buzzed with concentration and strategy, and the battle for the crown was fierce.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2024, Damien Meullemiestre, took home the title when he smoked for 1 hour 24 minutes and 30 seconds, but this year Sabrina Fontaine-Monetti herself took it a step further.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cShe rose above them all, as she defeated Meullemiestre and broke the national record, completely penalty-free.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The new record is 1 hour 36 minutes and 52 seconds. In second place Meullemiestre almost copied his performance from last year, coming in at 1 hour 26 minutes and 30 seconds. Dimitri Nalem snatched third place at 1 hour 22 minutes and 1 second.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The times are all a step up from the 2024 qualifier and the question is what Fontaine-Monetti can achieve in Split.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOne of the smallest nations in the CSWC family proved that size has nothing to do with passion,\u201d Bilic concludes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">1.<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Sabrina Fontaine-Monetti 1:36:52<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">2.<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Damien Meullemiestre 1:26:30<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">3.<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Dimitri Nalem 1:22:01<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>800 kilometers east of Madagascar, under the tropical skies of Saint-Denis, slow smokers gathered for a second time to crown the champion of this small island in the Indian Ocean.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":72776,"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\/72775"}],"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=72775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72778,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72775\/revisions\/72778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}