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MADRID — A 62-year-old Ecuadorean man managed to ignore the uproar of a teeming shopping center and snore long enough to win what was billed as Spain’s first siesta championship.
Organizers on Saturday proclaimed unemployed security worker Pedro Soria Lopez the champion for sleeping 17 minutes.
They said he not only slept soundly but his snoring on Tuesday also registered 70 decibels — roughly the equivalent of the noise of someone talking loudly. That earned him extra points and was enough to defeat the runner-up, who had slept for 18 minutes.
