NEW YORK (AP) — Dental hygiene pupil Miki Sudo of Florida has received her tenth ladies’s title on the annual Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July Scorching Canine Consuming Contest.
On Thursday, Sudo consumed 51 scorching canine in 10 minutes and set a brand new world document for ladies.
The 38-year-old defending champion final 12 months received after consuming 39 1/2 scorching canine, whereas her private greatest is 48 1/2, the ladies’s world document.
She defeated 14 opponents from all over the world, together with 28-year-old rival rival Mayoi Ebihara of Japan. Ebihara got here in second after consuming 37 scorching canine in 10 minutes. She was additionally the runner-up in 2023.
Opponents have come from over a dozen states and 5 continents, with prospects from Brazil, Japan, the UK, South Korea, Australia and the Czech Republic vying for the coveted title in males’s and ladies’s divisions and $10,000 prize cash.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The annual Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July hot dog eating contest will see a slate of aggressive eaters wolf down as many franks as they’ll in New York Metropolis on Thursday — however this 12 months, the occasion’s largest star will probably be chowing down 1,900 miles (3,000 km) away.
Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, who received 16 out of the earlier 17 contests, isn’t attending the competitors over a sponsorship tiff. As an alternative, he’ll compete towards troopers at a U.S. Military base in El Paso later within the day.
That leaves the normal Brooklyn occasion vast open for a brand new winner, with eaters from all over the world competing on America’s Independence Day to see what number of scorching canine they’ll eat in 10 minutes.
1000’s of followers flock annually to the occasion held exterior the unique Nathan’s location in Brooklyn’s Coney Island, a beachfront vacation spot with amusement parks and a carnivalesque summer time tradition. ESPN will broadcast the competition dwell, kicking off with the ladies’s division at 11 a.m. ET, whereas the boys’s will start at roughly 12:20 p.m.
Opponents are coming from over a dozen states and 5 continents, with prospects from Brazil, Japan, the UK, South Korea, Australia and the Czech Republic vying for the coveted title and $10,000 prize cash.
“There’s going to be a brand new champion,” Australian James Webb, who holds a world document for consuming 70 doughnuts in eight minutes, stated at a preview occasion in New York on Wednesday.
Final 12 months Chestnut, of Indiana, chewed his method to the title by downing 62 canine and buns in 10 minutes. The document, which he set in 2021, is 76.
Forward of the occasion, ESPN stated it will concentrate on two People with devoted digital camera photographs: Massachusetts highschool trainer Geoffrey Esper, within the males’s division, and Florida dental hygiene pupil Miki Sudo, within the ladies’s.
Esper got here second final 12 months with 49 canine and buns, although his private greatest is 51. Sudo received her ninth title in 2023 with 39 1/2, however her greatest is 48 1/2, the ladies’s world document.
“I’m going to be pushing myself,” Sudo stated Wednesday. Her rival Mayoi Ebihara, from Japan, stated by a translator that she would eat till she passes out, with a aim of downing 50 scorching canine.
Chestnut was initially disinvited from the occasion over a sponsorship cope with Inconceivable Meals, an organization that focuses on plant-based meat substitutes.
Main League Consuming, which organizes the Nathan’s Well-known contest, has since stated it walked again the ban, however Chestnut determined to spend the vacation with the troops anyway.
Chestnut stated he wouldn’t return to the Coney Island contest with out an apology.
The occasion on the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, scheduled to start at 5 p.m. ET, will use conventional franks, with Chestnut trying to out-eat 4 troopers in 5 minutes.
Though he received’t be consuming their vegan merchandise, Inconceivable Meals is selling Chestnut’s YouTube livestream of the exhibition by flying airplanes with banners over Los Angeles and Miami. The corporate will even donate to a corporation supporting army households primarily based on the variety of scorching canine eaten on the occasion, a spokesperson stated.
