With the 2022 Australian champion, Sarkis Akopov, once more taking home the title Down Under, Thomas Deghein winning in Belgium and Paul Kaste from Finland becoming Estonian champion, the qualifying season has come to an end. Now the time is here for what everybody\u2019s been waiting for \u2013 the CSWC grand finale in Dubrovnik.<\/p>\n
Judging by the last few months of competition there are a few favorites. Will three-time champion, Hauke Walter, reclaim the title after finishing third last year? After winning the German qualifier he\u2019s obviously still in the mix, while Drew Emch from the US is back on top with 2 hours 22 minutes and 49 seconds in his win. Etan Patel from the UK is a constant threat and Poland, as always, show great strength, even without last year\u2019s world champion Tomasz \u017bo\u0142\u0105dkiewicz in the top three. This year\u2019s winner, veteran Marcin Sakwoski, came fourth at the grand finale in 2024, proving he has the ability to compete.<\/p>\n
Other names worth looking out for are Alexander Shagai, Anastasia Arsenova, Peter Novysedl\u00e1k, Tormod Skaaraas, Dsriysz Jacek, Igor Titievsky, Rafael Solano Portoreal and Mikael \u201cZeke\u201d Zander, but in the end only one person made it past the three-hour limit this year. At the qualifier in Belarus Sergey Galevskii smoked for 3 hours 1 minute and 59 seconds, making him the main contender for this year\u2019s title of World Slow Smoking Champion. Light \u2018em up, folks!<\/p>\n
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Norway: Tormod Skaaraas \u2013 1:59:21<\/p>\n
Morocco: Julian Sanns \u2013 1:07:42\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Albania: Mariglen Gjata \u2013 1:31:00<\/p>\n Mauritius: George Bolbach \u2013 1:11:28\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Serbia: Luka Vojnic \u2013 1:48:07<\/p>\n Greece: Kontopos Sokratis \u2013 1:21:00<\/p>\n India: Aman Layoria \u2013 1:52:14<\/p>\n France: Oliver Steinh\u00e4user \u2013 2:10:05<\/p>\n Uzbekistan: Dsriysz Jacek \u2013 2:27:47<\/p>\n North Macedonia: Ivan Argirov \u2013 1:18:50<\/p>\n Kazakhstan: Igor Titievsky \u2013 2:25:13<\/p>\n Reunion Island: Sabrina Fontaine-Monetti \u2013 2:04:23<\/p>\n Switzerland: Tobias H\u00fcberli –\u00a0\u00a01:30:52<\/p>\n Sweden: Mikael \u201cZeke\u201d Zander \u2013 2:08:44<\/p>\n Baltic: Alexander Shagai \u2013\u00a02:27:30<\/p>\n Georgia: Gagi Gigauri \u2013 1:30:39<\/p>\n Romania: Victor Matei \u2013 1:55:17<\/p>\n Latvia: Anastasia Arsenova \u2013 2:26:00<\/p>\n Slovakia: Peter Novysedl\u00e1k \u2013 2:24:44<\/p>\n Austria: Daniel Friedenthal \u2013 1:55:40<\/p>\n Spain: Thorsten Ebers \u2013 2:17:30<\/p>\n The Dominican Republic: Rafael Solano Portoreal \u2013 2:08:23<\/p>\n Germany: Hauke Walter \u2013 2:13:25<\/p>\n Cyprus: Vadim Bocarovs – 1:57:35<\/p>\n Montenegro: Khanpari Nadirova \u2013 1:37:40<\/p>\n Singapore: Mutia Faisal Chaniago \u2013 2:01:30<\/p>\n Finland: Harri Kalliokoski \u2013 1:35:31<\/p>\n Ireland: Sarah Dunne \u2013 1:11:56<\/p>\n Hungary: P\u00e9ter Adonyi \u2013 1:26:00<\/p>\n Azerbaijan: Azer Mirtagavi \u2013 2:15:22<\/p>\n Italy: Francesco Saia \u2013 2:13:15<\/p>\n Japan: Hayato Mukaigawa \u2013 1:56:30<\/p>\n Balkan: Dejan Radevski \u2013 1:21:10<\/p>\n Denmark: Mads Groth Olsen \u2013 2:22:50<\/p>\n Bosnia & Hercegovina: Ivan Kristo \u2013 1:47:22\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Israel: Ami Cohen \u2013 1:47:00<\/p>\n Poland: Marcin Sakowski \u2013 2:43:41<\/p>\n Belarus: Sergey Galevskii \u2013 3:01:59<\/p>\n USA: Drew Emch \u2013 2:22:49<\/p>\n Chile: Francisco Diaz Manrigeuz \u2013 1:29:20<\/p>\n UK: Etan Patel \u2013 2:13:57<\/p>\n Canada: Youssef Mokbel \u2013 1:35:00<\/p>\n Thailand: Mutia Chaniago \u2013 2:00:00<\/p>\n Belgium: Thomas Deghein \u2013 1:23:10<\/p>\n Australia: Sarkis Akopov 2:05:24<\/p>\n Estonia: Paul Kauste, Finland \u2013 1:24:32<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For China, Malaysia and Croatioa, the results aren\u2019t in yet while Jordan, Qatar, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Armenia and Kuwait all canceled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the 2022 Australian champion, Sarkis Akopov, once more taking home the title Down Under, Thomas Deghein winning in Belgium and Paul Kaste from Finland becoming Estonian champion, the qualifying season has come to an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":77359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[53,49,2808,44],"tags":[1358,353],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77358"}],"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=77358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77361,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77358\/revisions\/77361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}