Musketeer

Category description:

Moustache long and slender.

Hairs are allowed to start growing from up to maximum of 1.5 cm beyond the end of the upper lip.

Beard small and pointed.

Aids are allowed.

A musketeer was an early modern type of infantry soldier equipped with a musket, a muzzle-loaded, smooth bore, long gun, fired from the shoulder. Musketeers were an important part of early modern armies. Pictured at the right is a musketeer from Altblau regiment (1624-1650) from Swedish army with his musket and bardiche (long poleaxe).

Although there were musketeers in many places including China, India, and the Ottoman Empire, most people associate musketeers with France, no doubt due to Alexandre Dumas’ novel the Three Musketeers, the story of four non musketeers who, as can be seen here, didn’t have muskets. But they did have moustaches and little pointy beards, just like the contestants in the musketeer category at the WBMC.

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2011 WBMC Results:

First: Juergen Draheim, Germany
Second: Frazier Coppin, UK
Third: Jörg Biland, Switzerland

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Berlin’s Jürgen Draheim (pictured above) has established himself in as the dominant force in this category, which he won in Trondhjem 2011, in Alaska in 2009, in Berlin in 2005. Draheim also took second in Brighton in 2007 and in Carson City in 2003. America’s only podium came in Carson City, when Buffalo Bill look-alike Gary Johnson won it, somewhat to the chagrin of the Dumas-lovers.

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