New York hot dog eating contest winner Joey Chestnut celebrates 16th victory
07/04/2023 10:09 p.m
There are champions that not many people know. In this country, that should apply to the American Joey Chestnut. But he is a luminary in his competitive field, the quick eating of hot dogs. At the world’s most famous sausage eating contest, he’s now clinching another win.
The New York Independence Day Hot Dog Eating Contest has ended the same for the 16th time in 17 years: series champion Joey Chestnut has won again, devouring 62 boiled sausages and water-soaked buns in ten minutes. Thousands of spectators cheered the 39-year-old’s performance as he defeated contestants who had already won sushi, donuts and boiled-egg eating contests. The competition is sponsored by a sausage producer and the manufacturer of a drug for heartburn.
The men’s eating contest had started with a two-hour delay this year due to thunderstorms. At first it looked like the event would be canceled due to the danger for the spectators, but then the organizers reached an agreement with the police. “You can never bet against America,” said a commentator on sports broadcaster ESPN2.
Record at 76 hot dogs
Chestnut has consistently won the competition in front of the Coney Island amusement park south of New York since 2016. He is the undisputed “GOAT” in the discipline. His own world record is 76 hot dogs – just under eight a minute. Chestnut also made headlines in the US earlier this year as an advertising figure for a beverage company that is now selling “Colachup” for hot dogs, a mixture of a cola drink and ketchup.
In the women’s category, Miki Sudo had previously been ahead with 39.5 hot dogs counted by the judges. She has won every competition since 2014 with the exception of 2021 – she did not take part when she was pregnant.
2023-07-04 20:09:00
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