Female competitive eaters category

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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)

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.

June 4, 2025 at 12:13 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Las Vegas, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests, Women | Permalink * Comments (1)

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.

May 18, 2025 at 7:25 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eating Challenges, Raina Huang, Statistics | Permalink * Comments (4)

Geoff Esper wins Lake Compounce qualifier

May 10, 2025 at 4:43 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:2025 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, Contest Results, Geoff Esper, Hartford, Larell Marie Mele

update May 15 Jerome Burns has a video

Official results

1st 43 Geoffrey Esper
2nd 23 Jerome Burns
3rd 17 Brandon “The Titanium Jaw” Macey
4th 12 Crazy Legs Conti
5th 9.5 Myles Mylet
6th 9 Deane Redish
1st 12 Larell Marie “The Real Deal” Mele
2nd 8.5 Madison Barone
3rd 7 Julie Goldberg
4th 3.75 Julia Wang

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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.

April 30, 2025 at 1:14 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Miki Sudo, Nick Wehry, Tampa | Permalink * Comments

Haley Yu ate 12 pickles in 5 minutes to win a contest at the NC Pickle Festival in Mount Olive, NC yesterday.

April 27, 2025 at 7:50 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eastern NC, Unafilliated Contests, Women | Permalink * Comments (2)

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.

April 26, 2025 at 8:28 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Big Texan, Female Celebrities, Movies | Permalink * Comments

10th anniversary of Molly Schuyler’s Big Texan record

April 19, 2025 at 9:08 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Big Texan, Molly Schuyler

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".

March 28, 2025 at 12:53 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Ayari Sato (佐藤綾里), Health, Japan | Permalink * Comments (1)

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.

March 24, 2025 at 12:01 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Dan Kennedy, Molly Schuyler, Philadelphia, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

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.

March 23, 2025 at 1:16 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Naader Reda, Raina Huang, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (5)

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)

March 12, 2025 at 11:43 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Leah Shutkever, Records | Permalink * Comments (12)

Mimi Zhang ate 28 pancakes in an hour to win a contest at the Pancake Manor in Brisbane.

March 9, 2025 at 8:43 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Australia, Contest Results, Mimi Zhang | Permalink * Comments (3)

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.

March 8, 2025 at 7:00 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Molly Schuyler, New York City, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (2)

73 year old Canadian Ellamae Hanley won Thursday's strawberry shortcake eating contest at the Florida Strawberry Festival in Plant City, FL.

March 8, 2025 at 1:08 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Canada, Contest Results, Tampa, Unafilliated Contests, Women | Permalink * Comments

Millie's meatball eating contest will take place in Staten Island, NY on March 8. Last year's contest awarded $1750. Molly Schuyler is expected to defend her title.

March 1, 2025 at 10:54 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Molly Schuyler, New York City, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

Chosun.com on decline of mukbang

February 25, 2025 at 11:47 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Competitive Eating, Health, Korea, Yuka Kinoshita

Chosun.com has an article about the decline of mukbang and big eating challenges that opens with the recent retirement announcement of Yuka Kinoshita.

One major reason for mukbang’s decline is the controversy over allegations that mukbang YouTubers secretly spit out or discard food instead of actually eating it. As suspicions arose, some viewers condemned the practice as deceptive, fueling negative public sentiment, especially over food waste. Moreover, while early mukbang content felt fresh, its appeal has faded as countless creators continue to recycle the same formats.

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Chad "Froman" Jones won the first prize of $1000 at the Loaded Fries Throwdown at Meatstock in Hamilton, NZ. Nela Zisser was runner up.

February 16, 2025 at 12:53 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Nela Zisser, New Zealand | Permalink * Comments (4)

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