In fact, it’s already clear that Joey Chestnut will win the annual hot dog eating contest in Coney Island. The question is more whether he breaks his own records. He succeeded again now.
New York – The series champion Joey Chestnut set a new record at the hot dog eating contest in New York’s Coney Island amusement park.
The 37-year-old Californian ate 76 sausages in rolls in ten minutes on Sunday, adding a hot dog to his previous best performance of 2020. According to the organizers, this is a new world record.
In the women’s class, the 37-year-old teacher Michelle Lesco won with just under 31 hot dogs (30.75). It was well below the women’s world record set by Miki Sudo last year with 48.5 hot dogs in ten minutes. It was Sudo’s seventh win in the competition. The 35-year-old fast eater missed this time, she is heavily pregnant.
In front of a cheering audience, the participants stood side by side at a long table and stuffed the sausages and rolls into themselves with both hands. Thousands of people watched the spectacle. Last year, the event took place without spectators due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Coney Island beachfront eating contest dates back to a marketing campaign in 1972 and has been held annually on July 4th for US Independence Day since then. The host is the fast-food restaurant Nathan’s Famous, which opened in 1916. dpa
