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Defending champion Miki Sudo wins women’s July 4 hot dog eating competition in NYC

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Defending champion Miki Sudo captured the women’s division of the annual July Fourth hot dog eating contest at Nathan’s Famous in Coney Island on Saturday with a flourish that emphasized strategy rather than condiments.

The Las Vegas woman ate 38 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes to claim the title for the second straight year, along with the $10,000 that comes with it.

She retained the coveted mustard yellow winner’s championship belt after downing four more wieners than last year and besting Sonya “Black Widow” Thomas of Alexandria, Virginia, who devoured 31 hot dogs.

Sudo employed a successful strategy of eating the hot dogs separately from the buns and swallowing the buns after first dipping them in Crystal Light.

Here is Miki Sudo practicing her hot dog eating skills.

And here is Miki Sudo eating an eight pound hamburger.

And here she is eating 6 pounds of food in 6 minutes.

And finally, here she is eating pizza.

Wigan retains pie-eating title with a new world record

On By A.P.In Adlington, Australia, Bolton, competitive eating, Manchester, Martin Clare, Neil Collier, Wigan, World Pie-eating Championship, World Records1 Comment

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The World Pie-eating Championship has now been won and the new king of the gravy, meat and crusty pastry is Martin Clare.

He is 34 and a furniture-maker from Wigan, home of the annual extravaganza at Harry’s Bar, which comes as as big relief to the town which has hosted the event for the last 21 years.

Outsiders keep trying to snatch the glory, notably a posse from scorned local rival Adlington, and past winners have come from Bolton, Manchester and even more foreign places such as Australia. Clare is a fine figure of a pie-eater and he demolished the 200gm pie in 23.53 seconds which pips the 23.91 set by Boltonian civil servant Neil Collier two years ago.

Speaking through crumbs, after receiving his gold medal in a ceremony modelled on the Olympics and Paralympics, Clare said: “This is the biggest thing I have ever won.” He was applauded by a large crowd and Harry’s Bar which had been un-nerved earlier when the first tray of pies delivered by the contest’s sponsors Poole’s Pies turned out to be frozen.

Harry’s Bar has insufficient microwave space to deal with such an issue and there was a further delay when organisers checked their insurance and found no reference to cover for mouth roofs scalded by pie. Iain Macauley who is the Lord Coe of the ‘Pielympics’ as this year’s competition was renamed, said:

Parts of the inside of microwaved pies can be as hot as the surface of the sun, so we had to have a delay before we could check with our thermometer – somewhat ominously a cow one borrowed from a vet – that they were safe.

The Pielympics copied the London Games’ successful model of ‘Gamesmakers’, in the shape of two ‘Gamesmakeresses’, one of them the landlady of Harry’s Bar, Susan Farnworth. Macauley said:

She was very good at telling people where to go, although this was mostly with people who annoyed her and didn’t always take the form of advice on how to get best view.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2012/dec/12/world-pie-eating-championship-winner-wigan-pies