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lejandro Mendez is the new WORLD BARISTA CHAMPION!! El salvador!!!!
Alejandro rocked it so sweetly! We are so proud of our new country of El Salvador! and the USA got 2nd place and a friend as well Pete Licata! Double happiness! 2011 is the year of El Salvador! Alejandro works at Viva Espresso in San Salvador and is a friend of ours too!
This is the first time a Barista from a country of origin has won! Raul Rodas won 2nd place last year from Guatemala. Next year we predict two baristas in the final six from coffee countries.
2011 WBC FINALS RESULTS2011 WORLD BARISTA CHAMPION: ALEJANDRO MENDEZ, EL SALVADOR2nd Pete Licata, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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2011 WBC SEMI-FINALS COMPETITION SCHEDULE1 Javier Garcia, SPAIN 7 Pete Licata, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA |
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2011 WBC ROUND ONE RESULTS |
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| RANK, NAME, COUNTRY, SCORE 1, Lina Zea, Colombia 643.5 2, Matt Perger, Australia, 637.5 3, Alejandro Mendez, El Salvador, 637 4, Javier Garcia, Spain, 636.5 5, Pete Licata, USA, 598 6, Hyun-Sun Choi, Korea, 597.5 7, John Gordon, UK, 584.5 8, Sefanos Domatiotis, Greece, 582 9, Yakup Aydin, Netherlands, 580 10, Ricardo Azofeifa Mora, Costa Rica, 557.5 11, Miki Suzuki, Japan, 547.5 12, Jose de la Pena, Guatemala, 547.5 13, Håkon Kinn, Norway, 541 14, Hide Kono, New Zealand, 540.5 15, AnneStine Bae, Denmark, 538 16, Rob Kettner, Canada, 535.5 17, Jose Luis Herrera, Honduras, 532.5 18, Olga Melik-Karakozova, Russia, 529.5 19, Tumi Ferrer, Iceland, 528.5 20, Karen Pisconte, Peru, 527 21, Javier Gamboa Rendor, Mexico, 514.5 22, Wolfram Sorg, Germany, 510 23, Oleksanr Galitsyn, Ukraine, 504.5 24, Gan Shilin, China, 503.5 25, Francesco Sanapo, Italy, 501 26, Francisco Atencio, Panama, 489.5 |
RANK, NAME, COUNTRY, SCORE 27, Ludovic Loizon, France, 489 28, Ryan Tan, Singapore, 484 29, Matija Hrkac, Croatia, 483 30, Patrik Vilhelmsson, Bulgaria, 481.5 31, Izabela Popiolek, Poland, 479.5 32, Vicky Fitz-Henry, Ireland, 466 33, Ya-Ting Lee, Taiwan, 461.5 34, Mihai Panfil, Romania, 457.5 35, Travis Scott, South Africa, 457 36, Kathleen Serdons, Belgium, 454 37, Domas Ivonis, Lithuania, 446.5 38, Lauri Pipinen, Finland, 443 39, Catherine Maringi, Kenya, 441 40, Carlos Vladimir Lopez, Nicaragua, 436.5 41, Felipe Oliveira, Brazil, 435 42, Alexander Ruas, Sweden, 430 43, Cem Korkmaz, Austria, 427.5 44, Wisanu Bunchuen, Thailand, 426.5 45, Zdenek Smrcka, Czech Republic, 423 46, CM Raja, United Arab Emirates, 413.5 47, Toth Sandor, Hungary, 388.5 48, Mark Okuta, Uganda, 374 49, Michael Jungling, Switzerland, 368.5 50, Efrat Maimon, Israel, 341 51, Ozkan Yetik, Turkey, 325 52, Edgardo Texidor Rosa, Puerto Rico, 278 53, Monika Palova, Slovakia, DQ 432.5 |
June 5, 2011
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