update Apr 29 Haute Living has an article and NCAADave has a video

Men
1) Sean Gordon 30 HDB, defends Las Vegas qualifier title
2) Rich LeFevre 27 HDB, takes wild-card lead
3T) Juan “More Bite” Rodgriguez 22 HDB, MLE debut
3T) Ron Koch 22 HDB

Women
1) Juliet Lee 27 HDB, will compete in Nathan’s finals for 6th straight year
?) Mary Bowers 9.5 HDB, takes apparent lead in women’s wild card race

update 6:51 Winners have been announced. Sean Gordon has repeated as the male champion w/30 HDB. Juliet Lee is the female winner w/ 27.

The contest is about to start.

update 6:37 Professional and local results have been posted.

Local Men
1) “Chris” Yat Ming Lam, 131, 2011 July 4th competitor
2) “Johnny” Wu Hung Shing, 120
3) Chiu Sou Sang, 115

Local Women
1) Chin Hung Yuk, 74
2) Soong Mei Chun, 72
3) Cao Shu Ying, 62

Professionals
1) Joey Chestnut 225, 72 less than last week’s Melbourne result, 155 off his 2010 record
2) Juliet Lee 178, 3 more than last week’s Melbourne result, new women’s record
3) Erik Denmark 150 The final round of the Hong Kong qualifier for CP Biggest Eater is starting.

A picture of Juliet Lee has been posted.

update The MLE facebook reports that Felix Ariga and Brad Stokes tied for 1st place in the contest for Australian males with a total of 105 wontons, less than the 109 Helen Tan ate to win the Singaporean women’s contest. Milly Chow was the best Australian female with a total of 75 wontons.

According to the eatfeats database, this is Tim’s first victory over Joey since the 2009 grits contest in Bossier City, LA. (All of Tim’s previous three victories over Joey Chestnut were in grits contests.) This is also Joey’s first loss in a contest for a food other than chicken wings in over a year. A list of head to head results for Joey vs. Tim follows after the jump

16:42 If Sonya Thomas competed in the men’s division, she would have came in fourth and won $1,500, $1,000 less than the same as the original women’s 1st place prize of $2,500.

16:07 Grace Lee claims she ate 24 hot dogs. Official results have her at 4.

13:43 CNN has raw video from the contest.

12:40 According to The El Paso Times, the official results have Juliet Lee & Stephanie Torres in a tie for 2nd place w/29.

12:10 ESPN showed Juliet Lee and Stephanie Torres in a tie for 2nd place w/ 29.

11:51 EatingContest has full results:

11:41 The contest is over. Sonya has won with a total of 40 hot dogs, one off her record.

11:39 Stephanie & Juliet are tied w/2 minutes left.

11:36 Halfway through the contest Sonya is up by 6 followed by Juliet, Stephanie and Michelle.

11:33 The CNN stream has apparently stopped to avoid conflicting with the ESPN3 webcast.

11:32 The women’s contest has started

11:21 Introductions have started before the 11:25 official ESPN 3 broadcast time. Laura Leu has been introduced.

The contest (without audio) can be viewed on CNN.com

The BBC has an audio interview with Sonya Thomas