Defending champion Miki Sudo compelled down 39 1/2 sizzling canines and buns to assert a ninth girls’s title in Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July sizzling canine consuming contest, earlier than stormy climate moved in and delayed the lads’s competitors.
Sudo beat Mayoi Ebihara’s 33 1/2 sizzling canines in 10 minutes Tuesday in a contest that gave the impression to be a lot nearer till the ultimate rely was introduced. The unofficial real-time counter confirmed the 2 girls tied all through a lot of the competitors. A remaining rely of plates settled the rating.
Sudo, 37, was disenchanted in her profitable complete, which was 9 sizzling canines wanting her all-time excessive. She stated competitors from the 27-year-old Ebihara had thrown her off.
“The first couple minutes, I found myself watching her, which I never want to do. I never want to be distracted by the other competitors,” Sudo, of Port Richey, Florida, stated after the competitors. “Watching her, I fumbled my hands. I got stuck with a big burp early on but was able to correct.”
Champion Joey “Jaws” Chestnut is looking for a sixteenth title within the males’s division.
The annual contest on New York City’s Coney Island boardwalk drew rivals from England, Canada, South Korea, Japan, Brazil and Australia, in keeping with ESPN.
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