High canine: Chestnut, Sudo devour competitors
NEW YORK — Joey “Jaws” Chestnut ate 71 wieners and buns to safe his 12th title on the annual Nathan’s Well-known July Fourth scorching canine consuming contest Thursday, only a few scorching canine shy of breaking the document he set final 12 months.
In entrance of a crowd of followers and going through 17 opponents, the California native far exceeded his nearest rivals however did not fairly make or move the 74-dog mark he reached in 2018.
Requested how he felt after the competition, Chestnut stated, “I really feel like I ought to eat a pair extra.”
Miki Sudo had already gained the ladies’s competitors by chomping down 31 scorching canine. She stated she felt “great” as she walked off the stage.
Miki Sudo consumed 31 scorching canine, properly wanting her private finest however adequate for a sixth straight title. Kena Betancur/Getty Photographs
The 33-year-old fell wanting her complete final 12 months of 37 frankfurters however earned her sixth consecutive title by simply beating runner-up Michelle Lesco, who wolfed down 26 scorching canine.
Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas holds the ladies’s document of 45 scorching canine in 10 minutes.
Chestnut and Sudo will every take dwelling $10,000.
Spectators with foam scorching canine hats, plastic noisemakers and do-it-yourself indicators descended on Coney Island’s famed boardwalk for the competition.
The annual eat-off began in 1972, although the corporate has lengthy promoted the occasion with a theatrical backstory that locations its begin date in 1916.
Chestnut has misplaced solely as soon as since 2007, when he pulled forward of longtime foe Takeru Kobayashi for the primary time. An ESPN documentary launched Tuesday options the 2 former rivals and their excessive coaching regimens.
“It isn’t one thing that there is books written about,” Chestnut says within the movie, which reveals him lifting his head up and down with a weight dangling from his mouth. “There’s not trainers. The whole lot’s trial and error.”
Kobayashi not takes half within the occasion.