World Coffee Events (WCE) has announced the 2014 World Barista Champion, 2014 World Brewers Cup Champion and 2014 World Coffee Roasting Champion at World of Coffee (WoC) in Rimini, Italy.
The 2014 World Barista Champion is Hidenori Izaki from Japan, the 2014 World Brewers Cup Champion is Stefanos Domatiotis from Greece, and the 2014 World Coffee Roasting Champion is Yu-Chuan Jacky from Taiwan.
A total of 54 National Barista Champions, 27 National Brewers Cup Champions and 9 World Coffee Roasting Champions competed in the 15th World Barista Championship, 4th World Brewers Cup and 2nd World Coffee Roasting Championship.
All three Championships took place over four competition days at the World of Coffee in Rimini, Italy, as part of the Speciality Coffee Association of Europe’s annual coffee event. Over 5,000 coffee fans from Europe and around the globe attended the event, and over 57,000 unique viewers streamed the competitions live online.
World Barista Championship
Champion: Hidenori Izaki, Japan
2nd: Kapo Chiu, Hong Kong
3rd: Christos Loukakis, Greece
4th: Craig Simon, Australia
5th: Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood, United Kingdom
6th: William Hernandez, El Salvador
World Brewers Cup
Champion: Stefanos Domatiotis, Greece
2nd: Rubens Gardelli, Italy
3rd: Asli Yaman, Turkey
4th: Odd-Steinar Tøllefsen, Norway
5th: Ju-Ying “Lulu” Wei, Taiwan
6th: Petra Strelecka, Czech Republic
World Coffee Roasting Championship
Champion: Yu-Chuan Jacky, Taiwan
2nd: Moonkyu Jang, South Korea
3rd: Joanna Alm, Sweden
To see the complete awards ceremony or to view competitor presentations at each of the World Championships, please visit http://new.livestream.com/worldcoffee (World Barista Championship) and (World Brewers Cup).
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