CONEY ISLAND — Reigning girls’s champion Miki Sudo secured her eleventh girls’s title on the annual Nathan’s Sizzling Canine Consuming contest Friday, chomping down 33 scorching canine and buns in 10 minutes.
It was nowhere close to her world file efficiency final 12 months of 51 canine and buns, however greater than sufficient to get the job accomplished this 12 months.
Sudo, of Tampa, Fla., has reigned supreme since she began competing in 2014, taking a break in 2021 when she was pregnant
The lads’s competitors is ready for the tip of the midday hour.
Famed aggressive eater Joey “Jaws” Chestnut is the favourite, vying for a comeback seventeenth win.
The 41-year-old, from Westfield, Indiana, was not in final 12 months’s occasion because of a contract dispute involving a deal he had struck with a competing model, the plant-based meat firm Not possible Meals. However now he is again, saying issues have been ironed out.
Patrick Bertoletti, of Chicago, gained the title in Chestnut’s absence and is the defending males’s champion.
The annual gastronomic battle, which dates again to 1972, is held in entrance of the unique Nathan’s Well-known’ restaurant at New York’s Coney Island and attracts massive crowds of followers, many in foam scorching canine hats.
Opponents within the males’s and ladies’s classes chow down as many scorching canine as potential in 10 minutes. They’re allowed to dunk the canine in cups of water to melt them up, making a stomach-churning spectacle.
The 15 males within the competitors hail from throughout the U.S. and internationally, together with Australia, Czech Republic, Canada, England and Brazil.
The 13 girls rivals are all Individuals.
Joey Chestnut set the world file of consuming 76 wieners and buns in 10 minutes on July 4, 2021. He has gained a file 16 Mustard Belts. As an alternative of showing in New York final 12 months, Chestnut ate 57 canine – in solely 5 minutes – in an exhibition with troopers, in El Paso, Texas.
Chestnut advised The Related Press final month that whereas he was glad to compete at that occasion, he was “actually glad to be again at Coney Island.”
Chestnut stated he had by no means appeared in any commercials for Not possible Meals’ vegan scorching canine and that Nathan’s is the one scorching canine firm he has labored with. However he acknowledged he “ought to have made that extra clear with Nathan’s.”
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