Female competitive eaters category

Children: "Cardboard Shell" (94) | Aubrey Koehn (9) | Ayari Sato (佐藤綾里) (11) | Carlene LeFevre (45) | Cherish Brown (8) | Chiara Mangiatutto (1) | Danielle Gioia (6) | Elizabeth Canady (5) | Emma Dalton (24) | Female Athletes (95) | Female Celebrities (45) | Gal Akbari (3) | Grace Lee (24) | Hatsuyo Sugawara （菅原初代） (32) | Jenn Cheng (7) | Juliet Lee (103) | Kana Kanisawa (蟹沢可名) (8) | Kassie Zapata (5) | Kate Ovens (59) | Kate Stelnick (16) | Kate Yup (3) | Katina DeJarnett (48) | Larell Marie Mele (23) | Leah Shutkever (96) | Lori Weiss (9) | Maria Edible (23) | Marlene Wigginton (7) | Mary Bowers (22) | Meredith Boxberger (45) | Miki Sudo (220) | Mimi Zhang (13) | Mio "Sakura" Takahashi (高橋実桜) (11) | Miyuki Iwata (岩田ミユキ) (8) | Molly Schuyler (387) | Nadia White (15) | Natsuko "Gal" Sone (ギャル 曽根 菜津子) (199) | Nela Zisser (76) | Neslie Ricasa (9) | Other Trencherwomen (98) | Past Competitors (32) | Peggie Neo (1) | Raina Huang (124) | Rene Rovtar (7) | Sarah Ow (5) | Sarah Reinecke (20) | Shahina Waseem (7) | Sonya Thomas (391) | Sophia DeVita (10) | Stephanie Joshi (7) | Stephanie Torres (113) | Stephanie Wu (43) | Suzanne French (13) | Tomoko Miyake (三宅智子) (82) | Unnamed Women (1) | Veronica Boggia (3) | Yuka Kinoshita (19)

Streamer Katchii attempted a 7 pound pho challenge and reversed into the bowl with two minutes remaining in the hour time limit.

December 14, 2025 at 1:35 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Noodle Eating Challenges, Women | Permalink * Comments (1)

Female bodybuilder Lee Keyrouz attempted the 7 pound burger at Ridiculous Burgers in Costa Rica, her first food challenge.

December 6, 2025 at 1:17 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Female Athletes | Permalink * Comments

Monchi's Night Market will hold a taco eating contest in Los Angeles on November 22 awarding $400 to the winner. Raina Huang and Naader Reda are expected to compete.

November 17, 2025 at 8:10 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Los Angeles, Prizes, Raina Huang, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

An episode of "America Says" produced by the Game Show Network in which a quartet of competitive eaters consisting of Jimmy Lin, Naader Reda, Aubrey Koehn and Kevin Ross faced off against four yogis has been uploaded to youtube.

October 27, 2025 at 10:00 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Aubrey Koehn, Kevin Ross, Naader Reda, Television | Permalink * Comments

Kate Ovens was the guest on the latest episode of the Yunk Life podcast.

October 23, 2025 at 2:26 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Kate Ovens, Podcasts | Permalink * Comments

GuinnessWorldRecords.com has a post about James Webb and Miki Sudo setting a new world record of 9 tacos in a minute before last month's taco eating contest at Taco Cabana in San Antonio.

October 7, 2025 at 8:33 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:James Webb, Miki Sudo, Records, San Antonio | Permalink * Comments (10)

Molly Schuyler ate 125 hard-boiled eggs in 8 minutes to defend her title at the Cackle Hatchery in Lebanon, MO and claim the first prize of $2,500.

October 4, 2025 at 10:28 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Jefferson City, Molly Schuyler, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (12)

The San Antonio Report has an interview with Miki Sudo about competing in the Taco Cabana World Taco Eating Championship tomorrow. James Webb and Geoff Esper are also expected to compete.

September 19, 2025 at 4:52 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Previews, Miki Sudo, San Antonio | Permalink * Comments

Molly Schuyler and Dan Kennedy both ate 13 gyros in 12 minutes to tie for first place in the The Big Greek Gyro Eating Competition held at the Saints Constantine & Helen Greek Festival in Silver Spring, MD on Saturday.

September 8, 2025 at 7:14 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Dan Kennedy, Maryland DC area, Molly Schuyler, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (8)

Rock & Reilly's Smash Burger Eating Competition at Topanga Social in Los Angeles on September 6 will award $1,000 to the winner. Raina Huang is expected to compete.

September 3, 2025 at 7:51 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Los Angeles, Prizes, Raina Huang, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

Dan Kennedy announced the top three for the hot dog eating contest at A Taste of Pendleton, OR. The top 3: 1) Molly Schuyler 46 2) Dan Kennedy 44 3) Scott Watkins 36 fixed August 24

August 24, 2025 at 12:02 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Dan Kennedy, Molly Schuyler, Oregon, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (12)

Molly Schuyler will defend her Wing Bowl title in Las Vegas on February 7. Notorious B.O.B. will also compete and attempt to regain his 2017 title.

August 21, 2025 at 7:12 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Notorious" Bob Shoudt, Contest Previews, Las Vegas, Molly Schuyler, Wing Bowl | Permalink * Comments (3)

Rich and Carlene LeFevre are expected to appear on tonight's episode of "America's Got Talent" at 8pm Eastern / 7pm Central on NBC. update Collider has a post about the LeFevres' appearance. They did not advance to the next round. A video of the appearance is on youtube.

July 29, 2025 at 2:48 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Carlene LeFevre, Rich LeFevre, Television | Permalink * Comments (4)

Raina Huang will face off against a mystery Japanese eater, for a Japanese television show tomorrow at D+D Delight in San Jose.

July 22, 2025 at 8:24 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Raina Huang, San Jose | Permalink * Comments (4)

Tacho Chinoz and Bar in Sterling, VA will hold a taco eating contest on July 26 awarding $500 to the winner. Raina Huang and former Washington Redskin Clinton Portis are expected to compete. Entrants need to submit a video.

July 9, 2025 at 8:46 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Northern Virginia, Prizes, Raina Huang, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

Raina Huang ate 65 wings in 5 minutes to win the first prize of $1000 and a spot in the 2026 Wing Bowl in yesterday's eating contest at the Plaza in Las Vegas. update Moh Motion received the big check, so apparently he was

July 5, 2025 at 8:30 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Mo Mbengue, Raina Huang, Wing Bowl | Permalink * Comments (20)

Mary Bowers announced her retirement from competitive eating after a 13 year career.

July 5, 2025 at 8:19 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Mary Bowers | Permalink * Comments (4)

2025 Nathan’s Famous women’s finals

July 4, 2025 at 10:33 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Miki Sudo, New York City, Women

ESPN has the contest coverage on youtube
USA Today has an article about the disqualification of Madison Barone

Official results

1st 33 Miki Sudo 11th women’s victory
2nd 22.75 Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco
3rd 21.5 Domenica “Dee Street Eats” Dee
4th 16 Tandra Childress
5th 13.125 Katie Prettyman
6th 13 Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele
7th 10 Kelly Lewis
8th 9 Jocelyn Young
9th 7.25 Laura Beitel
9th 7.25 Isabeau Pearl Prettyman
11th 6.5 Camille O’Brien
12th 6 Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown

Live Walking NYC has started a live video from Coney Island
Dutchmazz also plans to do a live video

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Molly Schuyler sets Z-burger eating contest record

July 3, 2025 at 12:50 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, District of Columbia, Molly Schuyler, Unafilliated Contests

Fox 5 article and news video

Announced results from Fox 5 live video

1 Molly Schuyler 40 burgers, contest record
2 Dan Kennedy 39
3 Sean Yeager 27
4 David Brunelli 21
5 Robert McGee 18

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Red Dog Saloon in England has started its month-long burger eating contest. The competitor who eats the most burgers in a 10 minute session in July will receive £5000 if he or she beat's Leah Shutkever's record of 13 burgers. Anyone with competitive eating experience must pre-book.

July 1, 2025 at 9:42 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:England, Leah Shutkever, Prizes | Permalink * Comments (1)

2025 Nathan’s women’s field statistics

July 1, 2025 at 9:11 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Statistics, Women

Here are some statistics for the 2025 Nathan’s women’s field. Explanation of the columns:
# Finals – number of Nathan’s finals appearances
Best – best finish in a Nathan’s final
Max – personal best Nathan’s result (finals and qualifiers)
Total – total number of hot dogs eaten in finals and qualifiers
Avg – average number of hot dogs (finals and qualifiers)

# Finals Best Max Total Avg.
11 1 51 478.50 39.88 Miki Sudo
14 1 32 583.25 26.51 Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco
1 – 23.5 23.50 23.50 Domenica “Dee Street Eats” Dee
15 2 21.25 487.00 15.71 Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele
8 3 16 174.25 13.40 Katie Prettyman
2 5 16 41.00 13.67 Tandra Childress
1 – 11.5 11.50 11.50 Isabeau Pearl Prettyman
7 6 11.25 110.50 10.05 Jocelyn Young
1 – 10.5 10.50 10.50 Kelly Lewis
3 9 10 40.90 8.18 Cherish “Five Pounds” Brown
3 14 8.75 33.00 6.60 Elizabeth “Glizzy Lizzie” Salgado
1 – 8.5 8.50 8.50 Madison Barone
1 – 8.5 8.50 8.50 Camille O’Brien
1 – 8 8.00 8.00 Laura Beitel

All previous finals results for the field:
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George Shea, Badlands Booker, Crazy Legs Conti and Miki Sudo appeared on CUNY-TV's "A Slice of New York" program to discuss Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest.

June 30, 2025 at 10:06 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Crazy Legs Conti, Eric "Badlands" Booker, Miki Sudo, Television | Permalink * Comments

Cherish Brown appeared on WFFT to discuss competing in the Nathan's Famous finals for the third year in a row.

June 25, 2025 at 8:19 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Cherish Brown | Permalink * Comments (13)

Raina Huang and Mo Mbengue finished a 15 pound pizza challenge at Big Mamma's and Papa's pizza in Glendale, CA to win a $1,500 prize. The offer is available until June 20.

June 11, 2025 at 10:32 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Big Mama's and Papa's, Los Angeles, Mo Mbengue, Prizes, Raina Huang | Permalink * Comments (47)

Semora Kludy has started a youtube channel to complement her facebook page documenting her Michigan food challenges, Semora's Competitive Bites.

June 4, 2025 at 1:56 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eating Challenges, Michigan, Videos, Women | Permalink * Comments (18)

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