update Oct 7 The Elk Grove Citizen has a contest report

Results part 1 | part 2 | part 3

Elk Grove Citizen has a video

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Maxim has a long profile of Miki Sudo focusing on last month’s gyoza contest titled Competitive Eating’s Fastest Rising Star Has Nowhere to Go But Down (Gideon Oji, Geoff Esper, Leslie Ryder or Nela Zisser probably deserve that accolade)

This is probably the most interesting new revelation about Miki’s background in the article:

Sudo has always been drawn to the quirkier sides of life. Her Japanese immigrant father and American mother met while working at a travel agency in New York City in the seventies, one they would come to inherit after the owners of the company left the country after getting into trouble with the Mafia — a fact she shares as if it’s an everyday occurrence to come to own a travel agency because of la cosa nostra. Her father moved the family to Japan when she was five, where they lived for seven years.

Miki’s rival for the top American female competitive eater, Molly Schuyler, is not mentioned in the article.

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>update Aug 29 Rafu Shimpo has a contest report

update Aug 28 LA Weekly has a contest report by last place finisher Matt Ralston and a video

update Aug 25 LAist has a gallery

classicalmucia1an and Mikey Mouse have videos

Psycho Gourmet has a contest report

Results Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Rafu Shimpo has a contest preview
KPCC has an interview with Mary Bowers

Matt Stonie is working on the 1st IFOCE/MLE undefeated calendar year since Kobayashi in 2006. (Joey Chestnut never went the first six months of the year without at least one loss.

Previous gyoza winners

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update Aug 19 Metroactive has a gallery

update South Bay Pulse and 69leviattann have videos

Full Results Part 1 | Part 2

1 Matt Stonie 103
2 Michelle Lesco 59
3 Miki Sudo 58
4 Steve Hendry 54
5 Jesse O’Con Jr. 30
6 Mary Bowers 23
7 Leslie Ryder 20
8 Jon Davis 15
9 Angie Hendry 14
10 Enrique 7

Matt Stonie has set a record with 103 tacos in 8 minutes.

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update Jul 20 Stephanie Wu has a contest video

Stephanie Wu has the results from tonight’s corn dog eating contest at the California State Fair in Sacramento. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

1) Molly Schuyler1 33 corn dogs $2,500 in 8 minutes
2) Pat Bertoletti 26.3-$2,000
3) Dave Brunelli 24.75- $1,000.
4) Michael Quattrocchi 13 $500
5) Kirk Taylor 11.67
6) Sergio Reyes-Raya 10 $100
7) Zane Glaser 9
8) Jacob Dena 8
9) Nathan Turton 7

No shows: Edward Chin, Ryan Ashburn

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