Female competitive eaters category

Raina Huang will face off against a mystery Japanese eater, for a Japanese television show tomorrow at D+D Delight in San Jose.
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.
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
Mary Bowers announced her retirement from competitive eating after a 13 year career.

2025 Nathan’s Famous women’s finals

Molly Schuyler sets Z-burger eating contest record

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.

2025 Nathan’s women’s field statistics

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.
Cherish Brown appeared on WFFT to discuss competing in the Nathan's Famous finals for the third year in a row.
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.
Semora Kludy has started a youtube channel to complement her facebook page documenting her Michigan food challenges, Semora's Competitive Bites.
Stadium Swim at Circa Las Vegas will hold "Weenies & Bikinis" on July 4, an invitational women's hot dog eating contest that will award $2500/$1500/$1000 to the top 3.
Raina Huang announced that her completion of the Kodiak Arrest challenge at Humpy's in Anchorage, Alaska gave her restaurant challenge wins in all fifty states. I think she is the fifth person and first female to accplish that feat after Randy Santel, Ramsey Hilton, Ivan Mendoza and Nathan Klein.

Geoff Esper wins Lake Compounce qualifier

Miki Sudo and Nick Wehry will compete in a Cuban sandwich eating contest at cigar manufacturer J.C. Newman's Founder's Day celebration in Tampa on May 3.
Haley Yu ate 12 pickles in 5 minutes to win a contest at the NC Pickle Festival in Mount Olive, NC yesterday.
Paramount has uploaded a clip from the 2012 film, "The Guilt Trip" of Barbra Streisand attempting a 72 ounce steak challenge at a Lubbock, TX restaurant resembling The Big Texan. Barbra did not eat any actual steak for the scene, watermelon was substituted.

10th anniversary of Molly Schuyler’s Big Texan record

Today marks the 10th anniversary of @MollySchuyler eating three 72 ounce steak challenges in under 20 minutes at The Big Texan in Amarillo, TX. Her time of 4:18 for the first meal remains the overall record for the challenge. Here are the other challengers who have finished in under 10 minutes.

  • Geoff Esper 5:08 2019
  • James Webb 6:28 2023
  • Joey Chestnut 8:52 2008
  • Frank Pastore 9:30 1987 (Cincinnati Reds pitcher)

No one else has attempted three steak challenges in a session. Miki Sudo in 2019 and Scott Eats in 2025 finished two challenges.

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The Pinnacle Gazette has a post about 34 year old Japanese female competitive eater Ogose Aya, who weighs only 28.8 kg (63.4 pounds) and is 150 cm (5 feet) tall. The weight of Aya and Angela Sato were monitored on a recent TBS program titled "Why So Thin? Exploring the Mystery of Competitive Eater Weight Changes".
Dan Kennedy announced he ate 8.5 sandwiches to win the Delco Steaks Cheesesteak Bowl in Broomall, PA for the fifth straight time. Molly Schuyler was runner up with 5.5 sandwiches.
Raina Huang ate 12 chili cheese dogs in 10 minutes to win the first prize of $400 at Tom's Chiliburgers in Ontario, CA. Naader Reda was runner up.
Guinness World Records has a post about Leah Shutkever's two new world records: the most jelly snakes eaten in 30 seconds (130 g; 4.58 oz) and the most strawberries eaten in one minute (313 g; 11.04oz)
Mimi Zhang ate 28 pancakes in an hour to win a contest at the Pancake Manor in Brisbane.
Molly Schuyler ate 19 meatballs in 4 minutes to defend her title at Millie's of Staten Island. Wayne Algenio was third. updateDan Kennedy was runner up with 18.
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