1000’s of thrill-seeking foodies gathered in Coney Island on Friday for the return of fan favourite Joey Chestnut to Nathan’s Well-known Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest, New York Metropolis’s beloved, stomach-turning Fourth of July custom.
A number of the world’s prime aggressive eaters — 15 males and 13 ladies from the U.S., Canada, England, Brazil, the Czech Republic and Australia — competed for the $10,000 money prize and coveted championship belts: the Mustard Yellow Belt for males and the Pink Belt for girls.
Fan favourite Joey Chestnut — who holds the all-time occasion document after consuming a whopping 76 scorching canine in 2021 — was, as anticipated, this yr’s massive wiener-eating winner, although he didn’t set a brand new document.
Aggressive eater Joey Chestnut celebrates after successful the boys’s championship on the 2025 Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July scorching canine consuming contest in Brooklyn NY on July. 4, 2025. Chestnut gained his seventeenth championship by consuming 70 and one half scorching canine. (Photograph by Andrew Schwartz)
The 41-year-old Indiana resident scarfed down a complete of 70.5 scorching canine and buns in his triumphant return to the Nathan’s Well-known stage, following a stunning one-year hiatus over a sponsorship take care of plant-based model Inconceivable Meals, which conflicted with Nathan’s exclusivity guidelines.
Chestnut consumed 24 extra canine than the second-place eater to win his seventeenth Nathan’s title. Chicago’s Patrick Bertoletti, who was prime canine final yr in Chestnut’s absence, completed the competitors after consuming 46.5 scorching canine and buns.
Regardless of the decisive victory, nonetheless, Chestnut apologized to followers for not breaking his personal document.
“I wish I ate a couple more,” the aggressive consuming champ advised the group. “Sorry, guys.”
The ladies’s prime prize went to Miki Sudo, the world’s number-one-ranked feminine aggressive eater, for her eleventh time.
Aggressive eater Miki Sudo eats scorching canine whereas competing within the 2025 Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July Worldwide Sizzling Canine-Consuming contest on July 4, 2025 in Brooklyn NY. Sudo gained by consuming 33 scorching canine. (Photograph by Andrew Schwartz)
She dominated the competitors with a complete of 33 scorching canine. Final yr, the New York-born consuming famous person set the world document in her class after scarfing down 51 scorching canine and buns.
MIKI SUDO REMAINS UNDEFEATED 🌭
Sudo downs 33 scorching canine to seize her eleventh title at Nathan’s Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest! 🏆 pic.twitter.com/RfnXIrd2gJ
The occasion, organized by Main League Consuming since 1997, stays “the highlight of summer and one of our nation’s greatest holiday traditions,” stated Phil McCann, vp of selling for Nathan’s Well-known.
(L-R) 2025 Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July scorching canine consuming contest males’s champion Joey Chestnut, George Shea, co-founder of Main League Consuming and girls’s champion Miki Sudo pose for photographs on July 4, 2025 in Brooklyn NY. (Photograph by Andrew Schwartz)
Guidelines for the spectacle of gluttony and patriotism are easy: Contestants have 10 minutes to eat as many Nathan’s Well-known scorching canine as humanly potential.
Buns are obligatory, condiments are elective and water is very inspired. Vomiting, referred to by MLE as a “reversal of fortune,” shouldn’t be solely gross and painful — it additionally results in disqualification.
Males’s Aggressive eaters begin to eat scorching canine at first of the 2025 Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July Worldwide Sizzling Canine-Consuming contest on July 4, 2025 in Brooklyn NY. (Photograph by Andrew Schwartz)
Organizers say the consuming extravaganza brings greater than 40,000 spectators to Coney Island yearly, whereas some 2 million viewers tune in to ESPN for the unique broadcast.
Followers attend the 2025 Nathan’s Well-known Fourth of July Worldwide Sizzling Canine-Consuming contest on July 4, 2025 in Brooklyn NY. Photograph by Andrew Schwartz)
For the reason that first recorded competitors in 1972, prime canine of the competition have downed a complete of 1,509 beef franks — about 330 kilos of meat.
Initially Revealed: July 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM EDT
