Chinook Winds rib eating contest results from a Jason Erb email:

1st Joey Chestnut 8.05 lbs, 4th victory in a row
2nd Rich Lefevre 5.3 lbs, 4th 2nd place finish in a row
3rd Erik Denmark 4.55 lbs, 3rd 3rd place finish in a row
4th Jason Erb 3.7 lbs, 3rd 4th place finish in a row
5th Brickhouse Braunstein 3.35 lbs

update

Blog entry and gallery by KC Photo

Desert Diva blog entry

Picture of Joey, Erik and fan

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The Daily News Online has a preview of Sunday’s rib eating contest at Chinook Winds Casino in Oregon. The columnist, Rick S. Alvord, turned down an offer from the casino:

The fine folks at the casino told me to call them if I had a craving to interview Chestnut. Yeah, well, my career hasn’t deteriorated to that point yet, but thanks anyway.

For some reason, I think I already know what he’d say …

A mock Joey Chestnut interview follows. (Perhaps the real Joey Chestnut could have informed the author that the Wing Bowl does not take place at night)

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• Video of 2002 Nathan’s finals
• 2002 article by Gersh Kuntzman
• Evening magazine segment about 2005 Chinook Winds ribs contest. Ray Meduna appears.
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A page about next month’s “Smokin’ at the Ocean” BBQ and Brewfest has been set up on Chinook Winds’ website. The festival will have an IFOCE rib eating contest on July 13 and qualifier for amateurs the day before. Joey Chestnut is the only listed expected entrant.

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(from “Crawfish” comment) The ribs eating contest held at the Chinook Winds casino on the Oregon coast has been added to the IFOCE calendar for July 13.

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Video clips of Erik Denmark appearing on local news programs to promote the Chinook Winds Ribs contest and the “Stand by Me” pie eating contest are available on his blog. Carlene & Rich LeFevre also appear in the Chinook Winds video.

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Barton Grover Howe, an entrant in the rib eating contest for amateurs at the Chinook Winds casino last Saturday, wrote an article for the Newport (OR) News Times about his experience.

It’s been several days since my non-epic moments as a “gustatory gladiator,” as the announcer put it. I’m still vaguely nauseous, and as to that same announcer’s statement that competitive eating is part of the, “evolution of sport,” all I can say is Darwin would probably not put this on his resume.

But given America’s – ahem – appetite for competition, I see why this appeals to people. Indeed, if you were to combine speed eating and NASCAR you could end up with someone throwing up on Jeff Gordon.

That would makes millions of fans in both sports ecstatic.

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KVAL.com reports that Joey Chestnut repeated in today’s rib eating contest at the Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln City, OR. No other results are listed. A video clip is available.

update the top 6 according to Erbivore
Joey – 7.65lbs
Rich – 5.75lbs
Erik – 4.7lbs
Erb – 3.6lbs
Braunstein – 2.95
Ronto – 2.9

update #2 OregonLive.com has an article about the contest in which Joey says he is considering competing in Japan.

update #3 The Chinook Winds website has a contest video

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(from Laura Flynn) The website for the Chinook Winds Casino, the site of this weekend’s rib eating contest, has a video clip of a “Big Bertha” burger contest in which the LeFevres and Joey Chestnut competed. I am not sure what year the contest took place.

update from Rich Lefevre The contest took place in 2007 and the top 3 were:
Joey Chestnut 9:30
Rich LeFevre 9:45
Carlene LeFevre 15:15, first competition in almost 2 years.

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(Thanks Dave Shoffner) Willamette Week has a long writeup of last month’s Chinook Winds rib eating contest focusing on Portland native Erik “the Red” Denmark. Other Portland area contests are also profiled.

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Domenico Alesi has galleries of the bratwurst qualifier and last winter’s chocolate contest.

(From Liz) Cabel has a report from the Chinook Winds rib contest

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(Thanks Liz K) kmikeym has finished his report from the July 15/16 Chinook Winds rib eating contest. Hopefully we will see more western contest writeups from urbanhonking in the future.

Update 7/26 2:15 am
Erik Denmark and Jason Erb have uploaded their videos (Jason Erb’s video is about 30 MB)

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Erik “the Red” Denmark has posted some pictures and a longer writeup of the Chinook Winds ribs contest held July 16. He hopes to post a video of the contest soon.

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The Newport News Times has an article about last weekend’s rib contest at the Chinook Winds casino in Lincoln City, OR.

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From IFOCE.com:

Chinook Winds Rib Championship, Chinook Winds Casino, Lincoln City OR

1. Joey Chestnut 8.4 lb in 12 minutes, beats last year’s mark almost 3lb., $1500
2. Rich “the Locust” LeFevre 5.03 lb, repeats as runner up., $750
3. Erik “the Red” Denmark 4.1 lb, $500
4. Jason “Erbavore” Erb 3.05 lb
5. Scott “the Pork Slayer” Sayer ?

Updated 7/17 1:34 pm with results from erikdenmark.blogspot.com

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The Salem Statesman Journal has a preview of this weekends rib eating contest that will be held at the Chinook Winds casino in Lincoln City Oregon. Joey Chestnut, Erik Denmark and Scott Sayer are expected to attend.

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