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04-07-2025
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2025 Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest: Results, highlights as Joey Chestnut dominates, Miki Sudo claims 11th title
Everyone's favorite Fourth of July tradition is back, with the 2025 Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest going down Friday at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, and both multi-year champions continued their dominance. Joey Chestnut blew away the competition in his return to the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. Chestnut took down 70.5 hot dogs for the win, 24 more than the next closest competitor. While it was an impressive performance, it wasn't a record. Chestnut came close, but couldn't beat his 2021 record of 76 hot dogs. Advertisement Patrick Bertoletti, who won the event last season, finished second with 46.5 hot dogs and buns consumed. It marked the 17th time Chestnut won the event and the ninth time in the last 10 years he came away with the win. Chestnut returned to the event after a one-year ban over sponsorship issues. Due to his partnership with Impossible Foods, Chestnut was not allowed to take part in the event in 2024, which allowed Bertoletti to pick up a win. Cooler heads prevailed ahead of the contest in 2025, with Chestnut announcing in June that he was able to return. He lived up to that return Friday, picking up yet another impressive victory in the competition. Advertisement On the women's side, Miki Sudo stormed away with the win Friday, though didn't turn in a record-breaking performance. Sudo won the event after consuming 33 hot dogs in 10 minutes. She defeated runner-up Michelle Lesco by over 10 hot dogs. Lesco finished with 22 3/4 hot dogs. With the win, Sudo has now won the event in 11 of the past 12 years. The one year she missed out, Sudo did not take part in the competition due to her pregnancy. Here's how this year's contest went down:
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04-07-2025
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Miki Sudo Wins 11th Women's Title at Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, Remains Undefeated
Miki Sudo crowned the winner of the women's competition at Nathan's Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest NEED TO KNOW Miki Sudo took home the women's title at the 2025 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest The competitive eater downed 33 dogs in 10 minutes on Friday, July 4 "I'm thinking the buns were more filling than usual," she told ESPN Miki Sudo is this year's weiner! The competitive eater took home the women's title at this year's Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest on Friday, July 4. Advertisement The latest win in Coney Island continued Sudo's undefeated run and marked her 11th championship as she downed 33 hot dogs in just 10 minutes. While this year's accomplishment may have been less than 2024's record of 51 dogs, Sudo still came out victorious. Michelle Lesco finished in second with 22.75 hot dogs and buns, while Domenica Dee came in third with 22.5. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Adam Gray/Getty Miki Sudo competes at the Nathan's Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4, 2025 Miki Sudo competes at the Nathan's Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4, 2025 "The hot dogs were great, the weather's beautiful, the crowd had me going," Sudo told ESPN after her victory. "I'm thinking the buns were more filling than usual. It's OK. A win's a win. Thank you for the support." Advertisement Per PBS, Sudo added that while she's "always setting my goals high," the hot dogs "weren't cooperating" this time around. Regardless, she's leaving Coney Island with a $10,000 prize to her name. Sudo has previously claimed the title every year from 2014 to 2020 and again from 2022 to now. She did not participate in 2021 when she was pregnant. The Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest is held every July 4 in Coney Island. Adam Gray/Getty Miki Sudo waves at the Nathan's Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4, 2025 Miki Sudo waves at the Nathan's Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4, 2025 Her latest win came moments before Joey Chestnut — who was absent from last year's competition for the first time in 20 years due to a conflict with a plant-based food brand — made his return to the men's competition to reclaim his title as top hot dog eater with 70.5 dogs. Patrick Bertoletti took home the mustard belt in 2024 with 58 hot dogs and buns in Chestnut's absence. Advertisement Chestnut caught up with PEOPLE at Fanatics Fest in New York City last month and revealed which of his wins he'll never forget: his 2008 victory against Takeru Kobayashi. 'I was behind for most of the contest, but I caught up to Kobayashi, and it was like, 'Oh my God, this is exactly how I practice,'" he said at the time. "I ate for 10 minutes, then went another five in overtime," he adds. "And as soon as I found out there was extra time, I was like, 'Oh, it's mine.' ' Read the original article on People
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04-07-2025
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Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest results: Miki Sudo wins 11th title, but falls short of record on tough day
It wasn't a record-breaking performance, but Miki Sudo is walking away with yet another hot-dog eating title. Sudo won her 11th Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest on Friday, taking down 33 hot dogs and buns to pick up yet another win. The victory marks the 11th time in the last 12 years that Sudo has won the women's portion of the event. The only year she failed to win, 2021, was the year she did not participate due to her pregnancy. Sudo defeated Michelle Lesco — who won the event in 2021 — by more than 10 hot dogs. Lesco finished as the runner-up Friday after eating 22 3/4 hot dogs and buns. Advertisement This story will be updated.
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04-07-2025
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Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest results: Miki Sudo wins 11th title, but falls short of record on tough day
It wasn't a record-breaking performance, but Miki Sudo is walking away with yet another hot-dog eating title. Sudo won her 11th Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest on Friday, taking down 33 hot dogs and buns to pick up yet another win. The victory marks the 11th time in the last 12 years that Sudo has won the women's portion of the event. The only year she failed to win, 2021, was the year she did not participate due to her pregnancy. Sudo defeated Michelle Lesco — who won the event in 2021 — by more than 10 hot dogs. Lesco finished as the runner-up Friday after eating 22 3/4 hot dogs and buns. Advertisement This story will be updated.
New York Times
03-07-2025
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Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest 2025 odds: Can Joey Chestnut break his world record in return?
The sun grows warmer, and the summer wind blows. Carried on the heavy breeze is the familiar scent of cooked meat — a seasonal staple and a signature of the summer's most bizarre and popular non-sports contest. On Friday, the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating contest returns as it has every year since 1978 (though the inaugural contest was in 1972), and, like a sodium-laden siren, the smell will draw heroes from all over to compete. Advertisement Among them will be Joey Chestnut, the contest's once and future king, who was banned for a year for signing an endorsement deal with the meat-alternative brand Impossible Foods. Chestnut's absence last year marked the end of eight straight titles for the 41-year-old, who had also won 16 out of the previous 17 Nathan's events. Chestnut made a massive splash in 2007 when he defeated Takeru Kobayashi, at the time considered the world's most prolific eater. Chestnut's victory marked the end of Japanese dominance in the competition, which had begun in the mid-90s and continued for a decade. Since Chestnut arrived in 2007, an American has won both the men's and women's sides of the bracket every year. Miki Sudo, Chestnut's counterpart in the women's contest, has won each year she competed since 2014. Her only missing trophy is from 2021, when she sat out the competition because she was pregnant. Sudo had just broken the women's world record a year before with 48.5 hot dogs and buns (HDB), and in her absence, the title was won by Michelle Lesco with only 30.75. Sudo returned in 2022 and has dominated since, breaking her previous world record with 51 dogs and buns consumed in last year's contest. Her over-under this year is set at 44.5, and she's favored so heavily that most, if not all, sportsbooks aren't offering her odds to win. As Sudo continues her run, Chestnut is expected to resume his, with the world's greatest eater marked at -2500 on BetMGM to win the contest. His closest challenger is Patrick Bertoletti, who has 16-to-1 odds to win, though even that number feels generous. Bertoletti is the reigning champ from 2024 (when Chestnut was barred from competition), but his winning total was 58 hot dogs and buns. That wouldn't have beaten Chestnut in any year but 2010, and while Chestnut ate just 54 that year, Bertoletti managed just 37. The 40-year-old Bertoletti is a renowned masticator in his own right, having won several big contests and holding a handful of world records, including most milk consumed in an hour (though one wonders how many people are challenging that one). Regarding hot dogs, though, Chestnut simply has the higher ceiling. Bertlotti's 58 was a personal best and his highest since 2009. His over-under for this year's contest is 50.5, which would not have won a Nathan's event since 2005. Advertisement Conversely, after Matt Stonie defeated Chestnut 62-60 in 2015, the defeated champ regrouped and rattled off six straight years of at least 70 hot dogs or more. He set and broke his contest record five times in that span, before obliterating it last year. While Nathan's didn't let Chestnut compete, they couldn't stop his mouth from mashing. He and Kobayashi (long absent from the Nathan's contest due to a contract dispute) held their own contest, and while Bertoletti was eating 58 hot dogs on Coney Island, Chestnut wolfed down an astounding 83 on Netflix. The real Fourth of July drama isn't between Chestnut and Bertoletti or Chestnut and the third competitor in the odds (+2200), Geoffrey Esper (who has a second and third-place finish over the years). It's between Chestnut and his gut-turning 83 hot dogs and buns from a year ago. While the over-under for his Nathan's total is 71.5, books are offering 7-2 odds on him reaching 84, which would beat the previous contest record by eight. That number seems as improbable (it's a pace of eight-and-a-half hot dogs per minute) as it is inadvisable (that would total 1,344 grams of fat and 40,320 milligrams of sodium from the dogs alone), and it's almost certain he wouldn't need that many to win. But Chestnut could be looking to put a bow on his legacy. The 83 is currently an 'unofficial record' after all, so reaching 84 on eating's biggest stage would inarguably cement him as the GOAT of gluttons and allow him to walk away from the contest secure in the knowledge his terrifying chompers will loom over the competition long after he's returned to normal portion sizes. It's a matter of want-to for Chestnut and anyone laying money on frankfurter-eating frenzy. How much does he want to push the limits of his body, not to mention common sense and nutritional decency? How much do we want it, especially if we have to watch? Place your bets and find out. (Photo by Yuki Iwamura / AFP via Getty Images)
