2011 Nathan’s finals – women

1) Sonya Thomas 40, 1 off record, 9-peats as best woman at Nathan’s
2) Juliet Lee 29.5
3) Stephanie Torres 28.5, 3rd woman to exceed 25, finals record for rookie female
4) Michelle “Cardboard Shell” 20
5) Larell Marie Mele 16
6) Maria “The Incredible Sulk” 15
7) Laura Leu 8.5
8) Grace Lee 4, probably greatest % decrease between qualifier & finals since Jed Donahue’s 1 HDB
9) Laura Gallagher 3

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

Comments (22)

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  1. Stallion Italian said (Registered August 27, 2010)

    July 4, 2011 @ 11:29 am

    Your linke to CNN.com has the judge giving instructions to the jury. Can you help?

  2. Sadie said (Registered January 15, 2009)

    July 4, 2011 @ 11:36 am

    Can’t log into the ESPN stream without a cable subscription 🙁 are there any other streams??

  3. Jamminjoe said

    July 4, 2011 @ 11:48 am

    Congrats Sonya 40 hdb ,,, Juliet eating like a pig as usual

  4. nunonabun2 said (Registered November 10, 2009)

    July 4, 2011 @ 12:08 pm

    Great job ladies.

  5. Dave Wagner said

    July 4, 2011 @ 12:09 pm

    They just said Juliet and Stephanie tied for second with 29 on espn…

  6. Stallion Italian said (Registered August 27, 2010)

    July 4, 2011 @ 12:10 pm

    ESPN showed a tie for Juliet and Stephanie…….Go Stephanie…..her very first! SONYA ALWAYS!

  7. Anonymous said

    July 4, 2011 @ 12:17 pm

    Stephanie was terrific.

  8. Anonymous said

    July 4, 2011 @ 1:37 pm

    Stephanie did an awesome job and was robbed. If you saw the end, Juliet was continuing to feed food into her mouth long after time expired. That could have been the $1,000 late stuff, stealing from Stephanie Torres.

  9. Anonymous said

    July 4, 2011 @ 5:20 pm

    What the hell is Grace smoking. Does she really think she ate an official 24?!!

  10. Anonymous fan said

    July 4, 2011 @ 6:33 pm

    Grace will continue to tell everyone how well she did when in reality she got spanked……hopefuly the IFOCE realizes this and does not offer her a contract

  11. Stan from Coney said

    July 5, 2011 @ 12:12 am

    The Lee girl was hiding food and still puting food in her mouth after the end.

  12. Anonymous said

    July 5, 2011 @ 5:45 am

    Juliet is a nice, kind person.

  13. capn brian said (Registered November 17, 2010)

    July 5, 2011 @ 9:25 am

    i am really confused on grace lee’s numbers…watching the women live on espn3, they had her pop up on the bottom a few times as hitting 4th or maybe 3rd during the realtime stats. i watched her video from charlotte and she put down 13 at an easy, comfortable pace…can’t imagine she would drop down to 4. did she have a ton of deductions?

    i do think it is time she give up her “unbeaten” and “outeats men” crap though.

  14. nunonabun2 said (Registered November 10, 2009)

    July 5, 2011 @ 10:30 am

    I really do not think she did four. something seems off with that number

  15. Anonymous said

    July 5, 2011 @ 11:17 am

    Well, she sure as hell didn’t do the 24 she is claiming she did!

  16. Dirko said

    July 5, 2011 @ 2:00 pm

    Juliet is nice but nasty and messy in competition.The truth hurts

  17. Larellmarie said (Registered May 9, 2010)

    July 5, 2011 @ 2:04 pm

    Ok, since I was the eater next to Grace, perhaps I can clear up some confusion here. Grace didn’t eat 24 HDBs any more than I did. The only correlation between her & 24 HDBs was that she may have touched 24 of them. As far as amount consumed? It’d be generous to say she actually CONSUMED max 12. As she moved each “empty” plate away to start on the next one, there was AT LEAST 2 HDBs’ worth of debris left on each “finished” plate. And, I’m not talking about some wet bun debris, I’m talking about pieces of unchewed hot dogs. So much so that the stacked plates were a pile b/c the amount of debris wldnt let them stack flatter. Any of u who know me in person, or thru my comments over the past year know that I am a very positive, encouraging person and I try not to comment negatively, instead I just generally don’t comment if thats the case. However this is just too much & a COMPLETE hallucination on Grace’s part. I applaud MLE for playing tough and doing what they did. I think a strong example has been made for future contest tolerances. Sorry for babbling so much 🙂

  18. Stallion Italian said (Registered August 27, 2010)

    July 5, 2011 @ 2:13 pm

    Thanks Larell.

  19. Undefeated said

    July 6, 2011 @ 1:13 pm

    Fine compromise and give Grace 14, and one way ticket back to Atlanta, with the promise to never, ever return. What a piece of … work. Next month she’ll be telling everyone how she was really the woman’s champion at Nathan’s. In two months she’ll describe how she also won the men’s division wearing a Joey Chestnut disguise. Not an ounce of embarrassment with this one. I hope her “sponsors” kept their reciepts, they deserve their money back. What a grifter.

  20. nunonabun2 said (Registered November 10, 2009)

    July 6, 2011 @ 1:31 pm

    I want to be a bunstub next year.

  21. GC said (Registered May 15, 2008)

    July 6, 2011 @ 1:35 pm

    It’s a shame that the restaurants that she gets money from for advertising will not find out about her grifting. Knowing how she runs that business, I would never let her represent my business.

  22. nunonabun2 said (Registered November 10, 2009)

    July 6, 2011 @ 2:09 pm

    That is also why you do not own a business.

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