(CNN)Eating fast-eating Joey Chestnut is the record 15th Nathan's International Hot Dog Eating Contest Won the championship and ate an astonishing 63 hot dogs with dogs and bread in 10 minutes on Monday.
Chestnut has won the Independence Day Contest seven times in a row and 15 times in the last 16 years.
He cleared up 15 and a half more hot dogs than his closest rival, Geoffrey Esper, but far below his own personal record of 76 sets last year. rice field.
Women's Contest, Miki Sudo won her eighth victory, and she beat 40 hot dogs and bread in 10 minutes. Sudo won eight of her last nine women's titles because she wasn't able to compete in last year's tournament during her pregnancy.
The 2022 edition has returned to Nathan's Famous Place on Surf Avenue on Coney Island in New York for the first time since 2019. Year.
According to Nathan, the first contest of this kind was held on July 4, 1916, and there is a legend that four immigrants competed to show their patriotism.
