Twenty three year old bartender Karlo Damijanić from Pula won a fourth place at the World Bartender Championship, held in Singapore. Karlo represented Croatia in the flair category or the freestyle preparation of cocktails and thanks to his excellent stage performance Croatia found itself in the bartender World Cup final for the first time.

Karlo has been a bartender for seven years and perfects his craft on a daily basis in his own caffe-bar in Pula. He had been preparing for his performance in Singapore for three months and his fourth place is a very big success because it was won among a strong competition of bartenders from as many as 53 countries around the world. The first place went to the excellent representative of Uruguay, Juan Pablo Santiago, who came second last year. Following were representatives of Venezuela and Taiwan and, behind the Croatian champion, representatives of Austria and England. Out of 49 countries the final was entered by only six of them.

This is the first time that the Croatian bartender team entered the finals in a world competition.

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