Results Official top 3
Larell Marie has the top 6 (Full Results – July 8)
1) Miki Sudo 34 – ends 11 year streak for Sonya as top Coney Island woman
2) Sonya Thomas 27.75 – lowest July 4 total since 2003 debut
3) Michelle Lesco 27
4) Juliet Lee 23.5
5) Meredith Boxberger 18
6) Larell Marie 14
7) Carlene LeFevre 11
8) Neslie Ricasa 10
9) Mary Bowers, 9
10) Marlene Wigginton, 8.5
11) Nicole Pulig, 7.5
12) Nicole Rodriguez, 7

13) Val Bromann 3

Post Contest Coverage

• Asahi.com calls Miki Sudo a Japanese woman.
• USA Today report on women’s contest

Sonya Thomas offers congratulations to Miki Sudo on her web page.

• Cardboard Shell has a facebook gallery
• Broadway World gallery

A brief recap of the Sonya Thomas vs. Miki Sudo rivalry:

• From her IFOCE / MLE debut in June 2013 to April 2013, Sonya thomas maintained a winning streak against other female competiitve eaters for 118 months.
• After success in local Las Vegas eating contests and challenges, Miki Sudo debuted in Major League Eating at the 2013 Las Vegas qualifier. Her total of 40 hot dogs was the best ever for a Nathan’s debut in a 10 minute contest (and best overall since Kobayashi’s first USA contest in 2001)
• About a week before the 2013 Nathan’s finals, it is announced Miki Sudo will not compete. A Las Vegas Weekly interview from last month has more on her withdrawal.
• With Miki Sudo not competing in the 2013 women’s Nathan’s finals, Sonya Thomas wins the female competition for the third year in a row (and maintains an 11 year streak where she is the top performing woman on July 4).
• In subsequent contests, Miki Sudo would have success against Sonya Thomas, starting a winning streak which is currently at 8 competitions.
• In December 2013, Miki Sudo (#4) would be ranked ahead of Sonya Thomas (#5), ending a decade where she was the top woman in the IFOCE/MLE rankings
• Last month, Miki Sudo qualified for the Nathan’s finals. Her total of 40 hot dogs matched her amount from last year and made her the only woman to hit 40+ in the past 23 months. She is currently in New York City and will try to surpass that amount.
• According to MJP, Miki Sudo has gone from being an +120 underdog to a -150 favorite in online sports casinos.

Contest coverage roundup

• General
  Val Bromann, who is also competing in the contest, has a contest preview
  USA Today says the women’s contest might have the best drama
• Sonya Thomas
  WSJ.com video
  Bloomberg.com video
  Fiscal Times article
  Washington.CBSLocal.com article
• Miki Sudo
  Mental Floss article
  Agence France Press article claims Miki Sudo could dominate. (Miki claims a 10 contest streak vs. Sonya; it appears to be actually 8)
• Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco
  Interview with Womens Health Mag
  WGN TV interview
• Mary Bowers
  Dana Point Times article

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update June 13 James Karst and Crazy Legs Conti have contest reports

update June 2 Nola.com has a gallery of pictures one made the front page of the Times Picayune. Where Y’at Magazine also has a gallery. WGNO has a news video

Official Top 3 | part 2
1) Sonya Thomas 40 doz
2) Adrian Morgan 30 doz
3) Mike Abadie 17 doz
4T) Crazy Legs Conti 15 doz
4T) James Karst 15 doz
Corey Fanguy

update Sonya Thomas reportedly ate 38 dozen oysters

The Red Fish Grill reports that Sonya Thomas has won today’s Acme Oyster Eating Championship.

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A listing of head to head results for Sonya Thomas vs. Miki Sudo follows. Miki Sudo has finished ahead of Sonya Thomas in all seven contests they have faced each other. Read the rest of this entry »

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Sonya Thomas debuted in the IFOCE/MLE rankings in August 2003 at #8 and has been the top ranked woman in that listing since that time. When the Fall 2013 Winter 2013-14 MLE top 50 is released, that streak will probably be ended by Miki Sudo.

In the last rankings without Sonya Thomas from Summer (June?) 2003 Takako Akasaka was the top female at #12 despite not having competed in an IFOCE event since the 2000 Nathan’s finals where she finished 3rd. (Lorraine Arroll appears to be the top female American at #54). The top 15s from the rankings follow after the jump:
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update July 8

Rake & Herald reports: Report 1 | Report 2

The Dana Point Times has a profile of Mary Bowers

Missouri Net thinks Juliet Lee won the contest and should have received the same amount ($10,000) as Joey Chestnut.

Official Results Part 1 | Part 2
1) Sonya Thomas 36.75, 3rd women’s division victory in a row, 11 straight finals where she was top female
2) Juliet Lee 36
3) Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco 27.5, originally 30
4) Meredith Boxberger 26, spelled “Boxburger” by ESPN
5) Larell Marie Mele 21
6) Neslie Ricasa 14
7) Mary Bowers 10
8T) Laura Riehman 6.5
8T) Prudence Di Benedetto 6.5

update A picture of the field (without Juliet Lee) I do not recognize the two women on the right

According to the official contest roster, five female qualifier winners are not competing in Coney Island today: Miki Sudo, Molly Schuyler, Dee Martin, Christina Ginn and Terri Reeves.

The Rake & Herald has an interview with Miki Sudo, the top female performer on the 2013 qualifier circuit (40 hot dogs) conducted before she withdrew from the finals. In another Rake & Herald article, Rich Shea declined to provide any new information about the withdrawal (but he does say that Miki Sudo will compete in the Hooters wing finals later this month)

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update June 4 Nola Defender (claiming Miki Sudo was supposed to compete) Rake & Herald and NBA.com have contest reports. Jason Smith of the Hornets/Pelicans and Thomas Morestead of the Saints served as judges.

WWL has an article and video

Results:

1) Sonya Thomas 24 dozen in 8 minutes
2) Aaron Osthoff 21
3) Adrian Morgan 18
4) Corey Fanguy 11
5) Crazy Legs Conti 10
6) Ryan Shams 5 (via email)
7T) Mia Davekos 3
7T) local 3

After not finishing behind another woman in the first 118 months of her competitive eating career, Sonya Thomas now has a 2 contest streak where she was not the top female.

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update May 30 WV Metronews has a gallery and WDTV has an article and video

update WBOY has an article and video

The top 6 (part 1 | part 2)
1) Joey Chestnut 28
2) Miki Sudo 27.5
3) Sonya Thomas 24
4) Bob Shoudt 22.5
5) Tim Janus 22
6) Juliet Lee 19.5

Video will be livestreamed at http://vp.telvue.com/player?s=gfcc I think the last time Juliet Lee lost to a woman besides Sonya Thomas was to Elizabeth Canady in a 2007 Krystal qualifier.

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Before Saturday’s Indian taco eating contest at Foodabluza, Sonya Thomas was 94-0 against other females over a period of almost a decade. Records of 30-0 vs. Juliet Lee, 11-0 vs. Carlene LeFevre and 9-0 vs. Larell Marie account for over half of those victories A breakdown of Sonya Thomas’ records against all women she has competed against follows after the jump. (According to the eatfeats database, Sonya faced other women in 59 of her 171 contests.) Read the rest of this entry »

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update May 1 Atmore Advance has a contest report (via Rhonda Evans)

update April 29 LiteMix.com has a gallery and video

update April 28 Atmore Advance has a short article

Results | Part 2
1) Tim “Eater X” Janus 20.5 1/2 lb. tacos in 8 minutes
2) Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco 16.5
3) Sonya Thomas 15 (first finish behind another woman in MLE career)
4) Nate Biller 14.5
5) Eric “Badlands” Booker 13
6) Erik “The Red” Denmark 11.5
7) Matthew Raible 11
8) Crazy Legs Conti 8.5
8) Don Potts 8.5
10) Damien Boykin 8

Tim Janus won the Creek Indian taco eating contest at Foodabluza with a total of 20.5 half pound tacos.

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update April 27 AL.com has an article and video

Results Par 1 | Part 2
1) Sonya Thomas 445 oysters in 5 minutes
2) Tim Janus 332
3) Adrian Morgan 318
4) Erik Denmark 266
5) Crazy Legs Conti 260
6) Nate Biller 253
7) Michelle Lesco 252
8) Badlands Booker 192
9) Damien Boykin 80
10 Matt Raible 59

update Sonya Thomas has been announced as the winner.

A gallery of the contest oysters being shucked is available.

Wintzell’s Oyster House is sponsoring the contest. Presumably reversals in tonight’s contest will result in a disqualification unlike in Wintzells house record.

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