The triumph significant 8 successive wins for Chestnut.
July 4, 2023, 4:48 PM ET
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Joey Chestnut won the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest for the 16th time on Tuesday, contributing to his record for the most profession champions of any eater in the contest’s approximately 50-year history.
Chestnut, who passes the label “Jaws,” consumed 62 hot dogs in 10 minutes at the yearly July fourth occasion on Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York.
Torrential rain and lightning postponed the start of the competitors by 2 hours however did not modify the anticipated result for Chestnut, who got in the contest a heavy favorite.
The triumph significant 8 successive wins for Vallejo, California-native Chestnut. He initially got in the contest in 2005 and has actually not suffered a defeat considering that 2015.
The runner up Geoffrey Esper, of Oxford, Massachusetts, consumed 49 hot dogs.
While dominant, the efficiency by Chestnut fell 14 hot dogs except his record embeded in 2021. He has actually consumed more than 70 hot dogs and buns in 6 contests, information gathered by ESPN revealed.
Due to the storm, contest authorities informed the individuals previously on Tuesday that the occasion had actually been canceled, Chestnut said in an interview with ESPN after the occasion.
“What a rollercoaster mentally,” said Chestnut. “I wasn’t even sure if we were going to consume today.”
“I’m simply happy,” he included. “It’s fourth of July and I got to consume some hot dogs.”
In the females’s department, Miki Sudo consumed 39.5 hot dogs en path to her ninth successive champion. The second-place finisher, Mayoi Ebihara, consumed 33.5 hot dogs.
Sudo, of Port Richey, Florida, said the stiff difficulty from Ebihara sidetracked her.
“The very first couple minutes, I discovered myself enjoying her, which I never ever wish to do. I never ever wish to be sidetracked by the other rivals,” Sudo said after the occasion, the Associated Press reported.
“Watching her, I fumbled my hands. I got stuck to a huge burp early on however had the ability to fix,” Sudo included.
