Reigning Nathan’s 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest Women’s Division eating champ Miki Sudo on Thursday won again and set a new record of 51 wieners in her 10th victory, a streak that was only broken when she sat out 2021’s face-off due to pregnancy, Yahoo Sports reports. Sudo even out-ate her husband, Nick Wehry, who finished in third on the men’s side at 48 hot dogs, 10 fewer than new champ Patrick Bertoletti, who downed 58 on the street stage in Coney Island.
However this year’s men’s competition was marred by the absence of the all-time great Joey Chestnut who was in El Paso to face four soldiers at Fort Bliss. He fucking crushed them – and arguably Bertoletti too – downing 57 to 49 in five minutes, half the time Bertoletti had to eat 58. It’s absolutely fair to declare Chestnut the default winner of the Nathan’s contest too.