The winners of the qualifying occasion for the “World Cup” of aggressive sizzling canine consuming have been introduced, with one of many victors being referred to as an “eater of note”.
A dozen opponents, many from the UK, battled it out to see who may eat essentially the most sizzling dogs in 10 minutes within the occasion referred to as Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, which pays homage to Nathan’s Famous, the host of the occasion, in addition to a sequence of fast-food eating places specialising in sizzling dogs.
The annual occasion happened at Seal Bay Resort’s White Horse Complex in Selsey, West Sussex, and marked the primary time it was held within the UK, with the subsequent spherical for the world championship males’s and ladies’s contests to happen in Coney Island, New York, on July 4 2024.
The winners have been introduced on social media by Major League Eating, which sanctions Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Circuit and ensures that security requirements are in place at every occasion.
Max Stanford claimed victory within the males’s class for the primary qualifier spherical, gorging down 34 sizzling dogs and buns, with Radim Dvoracek second, having eaten 21.5 sizzling dogs and buns.
There was a tie for the subsequent spot, with Ronnie Hartman and John Dawes each making the rostrum.
In the ladies’s class, Rhea Jarvis managed to safe first place by consuming 4 sizzling dogs and buns.
Speaking to the PA information company earlier than the competitors, Major League Eating president Richard Shea, 54, stated Mr Stanford was an “eater of note” and predicted that he is likely to be “the odds-on favourite for the Brits in this but I’ve never seen him eat hot dogs so you never know”.
Some of Mr Stanford’s earlier achievements embody consuming 141 Oreos in 5 minutes, 23 McPlant burgers in lower than an hour, and 50 cream eggs in 24 minutes.
Mr Shea stated that, in accordance with oral historical past, a sizzling canine consuming competitors has occurred each July 4 in Coney Island since 1916, the yr the primary Nathan’s Famous restaurant was opened.
