Only five competitors were allowed into the event this year—down from the usual 15—to allow for social distancing.
, and 13th win in the past 14 years, by breaking his own hot dog eating world record by a single dog—finishing at 75 dogs and buns in ten minutes. Meanwhile, Miki Sudo set a new women’s record on route to her seventh straight Nathan’s win.
Chestnut trounced a coronavirus-reduced field during the first-ever indoor edition of the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. The pandemic also meant that Matt Stonie—one of the highest profile members of Major League Eating,, and also the last person to defeat Chestnut —did not attend.
In the lead-up to the event, Chestnut had posited that the adjustments being made due to COVID-19 may make a new record easier. “There's a little bit of a bonus 'cause we're gonna be eating in air conditioning and they're less eaters, so they're making less hot dogs so they might taste better,” he told TMZ Sports a couple weeks ago.
Speaking of which, for the women, Sudo also set a new world record—48.5 hot dogs—besting the old record of 45 set by women’s legend Sonya Thomas in 2013. Sudo absolutely ran away with the title: Number two finisher Larell Marie Mele downed just 16 dogs. “I feel great,” Sudo was quoted as saying after the event. “I'm sure the physical effects will kick in in a little bit. I think the condensed preparation period really lit a fire under me.”
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