This yr’s girl’s champion Miki Sudo, left, and man’s champion Joey Chestnut, proper, stand collectively through the 2023 Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July sizzling canine consuming contest within the Coney Island part of the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, July. 4, 2023. AP Photograph/Yuki Iwamura
By CAROLYN THOMPSON, Related Press
Consuming celebrity Joey “Jaws” Chestnut shook off a rain delay and wolfed his solution to one other win at Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July sizzling canine consuming contest, downing 62 franks and buns in 10 minutes.
Chestnut out ate runner-up Geoffrey Esper and the remainder of a global area of 15 aggressive eaters by double digits to clinch his sixteenth title. Esper, of Oxford, Massachusetts managed to ingest 49 sizzling canine and buns.
Within the ladies’s contest, defending champion Miki Sudo compelled down 39 1/2 sizzling canine and buns to gather her ninth Mustard Belt. However earlier than the boys might compete, stormy climate moved over New York Metropolis’s Coney Island and delayed the competitors for 2 hours.
“What a curler coaster, emotionally,” Chestnut stated after using out the rain and questioning whether or not the famed contest would go on in any respect. The 39-year-old from Westfield, Indiana first competed for the Nathan’s title in 2005 and hasn’t misplaced it since 2015.
His finest end was in 2021 when he tallied 76 sizzling canine, however Tuesday’s climate disruption made a repeat inconceivable.
“Everyone received tousled,” Chestnut stated.
Sudo beat Mayoi Ebihara’s 33 1/2 sizzling canine in 10 minutes in a ladies’s occasion that seemed to be a lot nearer till the ultimate depend was introduced. The unofficial real-time counter confirmed the 2 leaders tied all through a lot of the competitors. A closing depend of plates settled the rating.
Sudo, 37, was dissatisfied in her profitable complete, which was 9 sizzling canine wanting her all-time excessive. She stated competitors from the 27-year-old Ebihara had thrown her off.
“The primary couple minutes, I discovered myself watching her, which I by no means wish to do. I by no means wish to be distracted by the opposite rivals,” Sudo, of Port Richey, Florida, stated after the competitors. “Watching her, I fumbled my arms. I received caught with an enormous burp early on however was in a position to appropriate.”
The annual contest on New York Metropolis’s Coney Island drew rivals from England, Canada, South Korea, Japan, Brazil and Australia, in response to ESPN.
