Consuming celebrity Joey “Jaws” Chestnut shrugged off a rain delay and chugged his solution to one other win at Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July scorching canine consuming contest, consuming 62 francs and buns in 10 minutes.
Chestnut beat Geoffrey Esper and the remainder of a global area of 15 aggressive eaters by double digits to earn his sixteenth title. Esper, from Oxford, Massachusetts, managed to eat 49 scorching canine and sandwiches.
Within the girls’s sport, defending champion Miki Sudo pressured 39 1/2 scorching canine and buns down to gather her ninth Mustard Belt. However earlier than the lads might compete, stormy climate handed over New York Metropolis’s Coney Island and delayed the sport by two hours.
“What a curler coaster, emotionally,” Chestnut mentioned after using by means of the rain and questioning if the well-known race would go forward 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 scorching canine, however Tuesday’s climate disruption made a repeat inconceivable.
“Everybody acquired confused,” Chestnut mentioned.
Sudo defeated Mayoi Ebihara’s 33 1/2 scorching canine in 10 minutes in a girls’s occasion that appeared a lot nearer till the ultimate tally was introduced. The unofficial real-time counter confirmed the 2 leaders tied for a lot of the competitors. A ultimate rely of the boards determined the rating.
Sudo, 37, was disillusioned along with her profitable whole, which was 9 scorching canine wanting her all-time excessive. She mentioned the competitors from 27-year-old Ebihara had thrown her off.
“The primary couple of minutes I discovered myself taking a look at her, which I by no means need to do. I by no means need to be distracted by the opposite opponents,” mentioned Sudo from Port Richey, Florida, after the sport. “Once I checked out her, I felt with my arms. I acquired caught with a giant jack early on however was in a position to appropriate it.
The annual competitors at New York Metropolis’s Coney Island attracted entrants from England, Canada, South Korea, Japan, Brazil and Australia, in response to ESPN.
