Female competitive eaters category

ArabiaWeather has an article about Saudi food challenger Rana Matar based on a television interview. She has acquired over 380k subscribers to her tiktok page since starting it on October 4.
Emmy DeLuca won the first prize of two Baltimore Ravens tickets in Saturday's street corn eating contest at Banditos Tacos & Tequila in Nottingham, MD.
The Northwestern University student newspaper has a review of the play "Dogs" that premiered Friday at the Red Theater in Chicago. Most of the characters are competitors in a women's hot dog eating contest.
The play "Dogs", set at a women's hot dog eating contest, premiered last night at the Red Theater in Chicago. It is scheduled to run until November 24.
A 2013 episode of "Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy" in which Larry MCs a Quadruple Bypass Burger eating contest at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas will be rerun Saturday on The Nest network at 4pm Eastern. Miki Sudo was one of the competitors.
Miki Sudo will be competing in a pink donut eating contest during halftime of tonight's UNLV college football game in Las Vegas to raise awareness for breast cancer. (Cofield & Co interview) update Miki Sudo missed the contest with no explanation. Brobible has a post about her absence.
Dan Kennedy announced that he and Molly Schuyler both ate 14 gyros in 14 minutes to tie for first place at the Big Greek Gyro eating contest at the Saints Constantine & Helen Green Festival in Silver Spring, MD on Saturday. Mo Mbengue also competed.
Raina Huang will do a ramen eating contest at DTLA Ramen in Los Angeles on September 11.

Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef

Joey Chestnut has defeated Kobayashi 83 hot dogs to 67 to set a world record for a 10 minute hot dog contest.

In the first undercard, Matt Stonie defeated three aquatic Olympians (Ryan Lochte, Ryan Murphy and Max Irving) in a 3 minute wing eating contest, 53 wings to 36.

Some links about Unfinished Beef
Decider has an interview with Takeru Kobayashi
Brobible has an interview with Chestnut and Kobayashi
NYTimes article

Netflix has an instagram post about the Chestnut / Kobayashi rivalry with two major errors: Kobayashi did not reverse in the 2007 Krystal Square Off, he missed it due to “jawthritis” and Kobayashi did not compete in the 2010 Nathan’s finals, he attended as a spectator and was arrested afterwards.

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In the undercards for "Unfinished Beef", Matt Stonie will face off against water polo player Max Irving and Olympic swimmers Ryan Lochte and Ryan Murphy in a 1 vs. 3 wing eating contest. Leah Shutkever will attempt to break the Guinness World record for watermelon eating. WWE wrestlers Rey Mysterio and Omos will present the championship to the winner of the main event.
Molly Schuyler ate 47 hot dogs to defend her title at the Cricket Car Hop in Stratford, CT today. Dan Kennedy was runner up with 3646. (video) update Sept 6 CTPost has an article reporting Molly's prize was $2000. Robert "The Works" McGee was amateur winner.

Stonie & Shutkever in “Unfinished Beef” undercards

TVLine announces that there will be two undercard competitions for “Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef” that will be streamed on Netflix from Las Vegas on September 2: Matt Stonie and Leah Shutkever will face off against opponents who have yet to be named. This will be Matt Stonie’s first public eating competition since a Draft Kings event in April 2021 and Leah Shutkever’s first public competition since the Highway 55 burger eating contest in June 2018. The broadcast co-hosts will be actor/comedian Rob Riggle and WWE Hall of Famer Nikki Garcia. Cari Champion and Chris Rose will be the announcers for the competitions.

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The Cilantro Lime Burrito Eating Contest at Topanga Social in Los Angeles will award $1,000 to the winner on August 17. Raina Huang is expected to compete.
Miki Sudo and Nick Wehry will appear at the VooDoo Burger Bash at Ybor City in Tampa on August 3.
Must Share News reports Chinese mukbang celebrity Pan Xiaoting passed away while livestreaming on July 14. She would attempt to eat up to 10kg (22 pounds) in sessions that could last up to 10 hours. According to the autopsy, mass amounts of undigested food was found in her stomach. (Via HardwareZone forum)
Randy Santel ate 22 hot dogs in 15 minutes to win an eating contest at Dog Days of Summer in Vero Beach, FL on July 4. Katina DeJarnett was runner up with 21 hot dogs.
Raina Huang ate 15 hot dogs in 5 minutes to win the first prize of $2,500 in today's "Weenies & Bikinis" competition held at Stadium Swim in Las Vegas.

Miki Sudo sets Nathan’s Famous women’s record

2024 Z Burger eating contest

Fox 5 DC has a live video of this afternoon’s Z burger eating contest in Washington, DC.

The top 5
1T Molly Schuyler 34
1T Dan Kennedy 34
3 Joel Hansen 30
4 Robert McGee 15
5 Andrew Krawczyk 10

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The BBC has an interview with Beth Hodges, who ate 64 feet of stinging nettles to win the women's division of an eating contest held June 22 at the Dorset Nectar Cider Farm.
PAHomePage has an article about Larell Marie Mele competing in the Nathan's Famous finals for the 14th consecutive year and George Chiger qualifying for the 6th time in 7 years.
The Daily Mail has an interview with Miki Sudo about Joey Chestnut not competing in Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest.
Stadium Swim in Las Vegas will hold a hot dog eating contest for women wearing bikinis on July 4. The winner will receive $2,500 and the total purse is $5,000.

Times Square Nathan’s qualifier

Official results:

1st 35 Gideon Oji
2nd 32.5 George Chiger
3rd 26.5 Yunho Choi from South Korea
4th 15 Anthony Kamenski
5th 12.5 Crazy Legs Conti
6th 11 Jeffrey Bonacorda
7th 7.75 Jason Ruppert
8th 5.5 Steven Peterson
1st 16 Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele qualifies for 14th finals (all womens contests)
2nd 9 Olivia Murphy overall competitive eating debut
3rd 6 Julie Goldberg
4th 4 Prudence DiBenedetto

The Field: Steven Peterson, Olivia Murphy, Jeffrey Bonacorda, Anthony Kaminsky, Jay Ruppert, Julie Goldberg, A Korean (didn’t get the name), Prudence DiBenedetto, Larell Marie Mele, George Chiger, Crazy Legs Conti, Gideon Oji

KumaMonster has started a live stream of today’s Nathan’s qualifier at Times Square in Manhattan. The introductions are expected to start at noon Eastern.

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Fox 13 has an article about the Cuban sandwich eating contest that Miki Sudo and Nick Wehry will be competing in tomorrow in Ybor City, FL to celebrate Founder's Day for the cigar manufacturer J.C. Newman.
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