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Chowdown champ Joey “Jaws” Chestnut broke his own record to gulp to a 14th win in the men’s Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on Sunday, while Michelle Lesco took the women’s title.
Chestnut downed 76 franks and buns in 10 minutes. That’s one more than he did in setting the men’s record last year, when the contest unfolded without fans because of the coronavirus pandemic.
“It just felt good,” Chestnut, of Westfield, Indiana, said in an ESPN interview after his win Sunday. “Even if I was uncomfortable, having everybody cheer me and push me, it made me feel good.”
Lesco, of Tucson, Arizona, downed just short of 31 dogs in 10 minutes and called her win “an amazing feeling”.
Reigning women’s champ and record-holder Miki Sudo skipped this year because she’s expecting a baby in a few weeks with fellow competitive eater Nick Wehry. He vied for the men’s title but came up short.

The annual Fourth of July frankfurter fest normally happens outside Nathan’s flagship shop in Brooklyn’s Coney Island neighbourhood. But this year’s planning took place amid shifting coronavirus restrictions, and the event was held in a nearby minor league baseball stadium, Maimonides Park, with 5,000 spectators.
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Last year, it was held indoors and without an in-person audience because of the pandemic.
Chestnut said he’d missed the fans last year.
“I’ve been looking forward to this all year,” he told ESPN in an interview before this year’s competition.
He beat the second place finisher Geoffrey by a whopping 26 wieners.

Chestnut has now won 14 of the last 15 contests since he defeated six-time defending champion Takeru Kobayashi of Japan in 2007. His only defeat in that time was to Matt Stonie in 2015.
Fan Jesse Correali, 23, of Staten Island, said she came especially to root for Chestnut.
“I have a poster of him in my room,” she said.
Dennis Fulton, 29, trekked down from Manhattan’s Upper East Side to watch the gulping festivities.
“I can’t do it, but I admire people who can.”
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Joey Chestnut stuffs a hot dog into his mouth. Photo: Reuters

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Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest contestant Joey Chestnut holds a tray of hotdogs at the official weigh-in ceremony in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., July 2, 2021. REUTERS/Angus Mordant

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Takeru Kobayashi, left, and Joey Chestnut, right, eat hot dogs during Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Competition in New York, Wednesday, July 4, 2007. In a gut-busting showdown that combined drama, daring and indigestion, Joey Chestnut emerged this afternoon as the world's hot dog eating champion by gobbling down a record 66 franks. The Californian knocked off six-time titlist Takeru Kobayashi in a rousing yet repulsive triumph in Coney Island. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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NEW YORK, NY - JULY 04: Joey Chestnut (2nd L) competes in the annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4, 2018 in the Coney Island neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Chestnut won the contest, setting a Coney Island record, eating 74 hot dogs in 10 minutes. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY ==

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World’s top-ranked hot dog eater wins famous July 4 event for the 14th time

Michelle Lesco downed almost 31 hot dogs and buns to win the women’s title