NEW YORK – It is the daybreak of a brand new period on the Nathan’s Well-known Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest.
Patrick Bertoletti of Chicago gained the boys’s division with 58 scorching canines and buns.
“I am within the best nation on the planet, the best consuming contest on the planet and it is good, perfection,” Bertoletti mentioned.
For the primary time in years, the boys’s competitors was broad open, with Joey Chestnut not competing.
The competitors was tight from the beginning in Chestnut’s absence.
Bertoletti, the #9 ranked eater on the planet in accordance with Main League Consuming, jumped out to an early lead, adopted intently by Geoffrey Esper of Oxford, Massachusetts and Nick Wehry of Tampa, Florida. In the course of the competition, James Webb of Australia briefly took the lead. Bertoletti got here rallying again, and held onto the lead till the tip.
Esper got here in second with 53. Webb got here in third with 52.
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Why Joey Chestnut did not compete this 12 months
Chestnut, the 16-time champion didn’t seem this 12 months due to his partnership with a rival firm that makes plant-based scorching canines. He is showing as an alternative this 12 months at Fort Bliss in Texas, the place he’ll compete in opposition to 4 service members at 5 p.m.
Chestnut holds the all-time file which he set in 2021 by consuming 76 scorching canines and buns.
Miki Sudo units new file in girls’s division
Miki Sudo set a brand new file within the girls’s division on the 2024 Nathan’s Well-known Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest with 51 scorching canines and buns.
Sudo, 38, has gained yearly since 2014 besides 2021 – she sat that 12 months out because of being pregnant. Her private finest had beforehand been 48.5 scorching canines and buns, which she shattered this 12 months with 51.
“I feel what this implies for the ladies’s contest is that, to start with, our private bests are simply gonna maintain going up, the file’s gonna maintain growing. After 10 years, I nonetheless have extra to provide, and you are not achieved with me simply but,” she mentioned.
Sudo efficiently defended her title for the tenth time. As Main League Consuming’s top-ranked feminine eater on the planet, Sudo fended off a stiff problem from Mayoi Ebihara of Japan, who ate 37.
Sudo thanked Ebihara for “pushing me a lot.”
Sudo mentioned she was “getting emotional” and “actually wished to win.”
Sudo is married to fellow competitor Nicholas Wehry. With 51, she has now bested his complete, which is 48.
Michelle Lesco got here in third within the girls’s division with 23 scorching canines and buns.
1000’s of spectators attended the annual spectacle at Nathan’s Well-known flagship restaurant at Surf and Stillwell Avenues. The present additionally included dance and music performances.
The Fourth of July custom dates again to 1916.
Along with successful the coveted Mustard Yellow Belt, there is a $20,000 money prize.
At Thursday’s occasion, Eric “Badlands” Booker set a brand new file within the Nathan’s lemonade chugging competitors, consuming a gallon in 21 seconds.
And, as per custom, Nathan’s Well-known is donating 100,000 scorching canines to the Meals Financial institution for New York Metropolis.