Eating superstar Joey “Jaws” Chestnut shook off a rain delay and gobbled his way to another win at Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest, downing 62 franks and buns in 10 minutes.
Chestnut out ate runner-up Geoffrey Esper and the rest of an international field of 15 competitive eaters by double digits to clinch his eighth straight Mustard Belt and 16th overall. Esper, of Oxford, Massachusetts, managed to ingest 49 hot dogs and buns.
The women’s contest was expected to be a runaway victory for the defending champion, Miki Sudo. She did prevail, eating 39.5 hot dogs in 10 minutes, only six more than her closest competitor, Mayoi Ebihara, in a closer finish than expected.
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