Cigar Smoking World Championship Results Announced

Hauke Walter emerged as the winner of the 15th anniversary of the Cigar Smoking World Championship in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The event brought together cigar enthusiasts from over 45 countries.

The championship’s finale featured a showdown between Walter and Anastasia Arsenova who tried a risky technique known as tunneling to gain extra time. The strategy backfired when her cigar’s band burned, resulting in a 15-minute penalty. The penalty dropped her to fifth place with a final time of 2 hours, 35 minutes, and 48 seconds, allowing Borys Szkodziak to move up and secure second place and Dejan Pažin from Slovenia to secure third-place.

“The grand final is less about the duration and more about the intensity of competition, where the world’s best come together to compete under immense pressure,” CSWC founder and organizer Marko Bilic said in a press release.”This year’s event truly embodied that spirit.” 

The final standings of the 2024 CSWC Grand Final are as follows:

Hauke Walter – 2:51:43

Borys Szkodziak – 2:49:17

Dejan Pažin – 2:41:19

Marcin Sekowski – 2:37:21

Anastasia Arsenova – 2:35:48 (after 15-minute penalty)

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