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Born in Nagano, Japan, he won the 2000 Japanese variety show TV Champion Gluttony Championship by eating 16 bowls of ramen in 1 hour in the final. Also competing in the popular TV show Food Battle Club, he went on to win the final round of several stages, besting his mentor and previous champion.
On July 4, 2011, Sonya Thomas became the champion of the first Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest for Women. [13] Previously, women and men had competed against each other, except for one Memorial Day competition held in 1975. [5] Eating 40 hot dogs in 10 minutes, Thomas earned the inaugural Pepto-Bismol-sponsored pink belt and won $10,000. [14]
Chestnut, the American powerhouse, and Kobayashi, the Japanese legend, faced off five times on the Fourth of July at the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. Chestnut won three of those ...
Twenty-three year-old Takeru Kobayashi of Japan raises his hands in victory July 4, 2001 at the 86th annual Nathan's Famous International 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island in ...
He went on to win the Mustard Yellow Belt consecutively from 2002 to 2006 at the hot dog eating contest, held annually on July 4. Joey Chestnut, the reigning champion, held the title from 2007 to ...
With a $100,000 grand prize and bragging rights to become "Greatest of All Time" on the line, Chestnut inhaled 83 hot dogs in 10 minutes to Kobayashi's 66 — their first dog-to-dog faceoff in 15 ...
Grab your ketchup and mustard, because the mother of all hot dog-eating contests is here. Joey Chestnut and Takeru Kobayashi, two of the world’s most famous competitive eaters, will participate ...
She started competitive eating in 1989 and became famous when she won an annual TV Champion's eating contest in 1994. She won again in 1996 by beating Hirofumi Nakajima and Kazutoyo Arai, who were both soon to be Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champions. One of her records is eating 90 ostrich egg omelettes in Australia.