Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest - Results

Results

Year Winner First HDB/Min Second Third Notes Contest Duration (minutes)
2012 Men's: Joey Chestnut 68 6.80 52.25 51 Chestnut tied his previous record, previously set in 2009. He also became the second person to win six consecutive titles. "Eater X" Tim Janus finished second and "Deep Dish" Patrick Bertoletti finished third. Matt "Megatoad" Stonie took fourth with 44 H.D.B. 10
Women's: Sonya Thomas 45 Thomas set a new women's record
2011 Men's: Joey Chestnut 62 6.20 53 45 Separate competitions are held for women and men for the first time. Chestnut dominates on his way to his fifth straight title, eating 62 H.D.B. Patrick "Deep Dish" Bertoletti finished second with 53, while Tim Janus finished with 45. Sonya Thomas won the inaugural women's event, eating 40 H.D.B. Juliet Lee placed second with 29.5 H.D.B. & rookie Stephanie Torres of Las Cruces, NM took home third with 28.5 H.D.B. Takeru Kobayashi claimed to have eaten 69 H.D.B.s during the contest near the contest, but a separate video appears to reveal that he may have only eaten between 65 and 67 hot dogs. 10
Women's: Sonya Thomas 40 4.00 29.5 28.5
2010 Joey Chestnut 54 5.40 45 37 Six-time former champion, Takeru Kobayashi, was present but had refused to sign a contract with Major League Eating and did not compete. After the contest, Kobayashi was involved in a scuffle with police and was led away in handcuffs. Tim "Eater X" Janus finished second. Pat "Deep Dish" Bertoletti finished third. 10
2009 Joey Chestnut 68 6.80 64½ 55 Chestnut beat his previous record by eating 68 H.D.B. in ten minutes, nine more than in 2008, setting new event, U.S., and world records. He became the second person to win three consecutive titles. Kobayashi ate 64½ H.D.B., setting a Japanese record, & Patrick Bertoletti placed third with 55 H.D.B. Chestnut improved his H.D.B. per minute in 2009's contest to 6.8 from the 5.9 he had in 2008. Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas broke her own female record with 41 H.D.B. 10
2008 Joey Chestnut 59 a 5.90 59 42 Event, Japanese, U.S., and world records set (59 H.D.B.). First event using new ten-minute time limit and first tie and eat-off since 1980. Chestnut & Kobayashi tie for first with 59 in regulation. In overtime Chestnut is the first to finish a plate of five. Kobayashi, losing by a bite, finishes second, & Tim Janus finishes third with 42. 10
2007 Joey Chestnut 66 5.50 63 49 Having broken the world and U.S. records with 59½ H.D.B. at a qualifier contest on June 2, 2007, Chestnut finishes first, setting new event, U.S. and world records (66 H.D.B.); Sonya Thomas, #5, sets female record (39 H.D.B.). 12
2006 Takeru Kobayashi 53¾ 4.50 52 37 Kobayashi, #1, sets event, Japanese and world records (53¾ H.D.B.); Chestnut, #2, sets U.S. record (52 H.D.B.). 12
2005 Takeru Kobayashi 49 4.08 37 32 Sonya Thomas sets the female and U.S. records (37 H.D.B.) 12
2004 Takeru Kobayashi 53½ 4.46 38 32 Event, Japanese and world records set; Sonya Thomas sets the female and U.S. records (32 H.D.B.) 12
2003 Takeru Kobayashi 44½ 3.71 30½ 29½ Sonya Thomas sets the female record (25 H.D.B.) 12
2002 Takeru Kobayashi 50½ 4.21 26 25½ Event, Japanese and world records set. 12
2001 Takeru Kobayashi 50 4.17 31 23½ Event, Japanese and world records broken. Event record doubled. 12
2000 Kazutoyo Arai 25⅛ 2.08 24 22¼ Misao "Beast" Fujita, 藤田操, 24, M.; third - Takako Akasaka, 赤阪尊子, 22, F.; Takako Akasaka sets the women's record
1999 Steve Keiner 20¼ 1.69 19 Before the contest Keiner ate half of a hot dog, but judges missed it. He would have been disqualified had the judges seen it.
1998 Hirofumi Nakajima 19 1.58
1997 Hirofumi Nakajima 24½ 2.04 Event, Japanese and world records set; First time that intergovernmental qualifiers were used
1996 Ed Krachie 22¼ 1.85 20 Event, U.S. and world records set. World record was later broken December 4, 1996 by Hirofumi Nakajima (23¼) in a hot dog eating contest in Central Park, also setting the Japanese record.
1995 Ed Krachie 19½ 1.63 19
1994 Mike Devito 20 1.67
1993 Mike Devito 17 1.42 First time that qualifying events were used to choose contestants
1992 Frank Dellarosa 19 1.58
1991 Frank Dellarosa 21½ 1.79 Event, U.S. and world records set; 1991 event was the 75th annual contest. 12
1990 Mike Devito 16 1.33
1989 Jay Green 13 1.08
1988 Jay Green 14 1.17
1987 Don Wolfman 12 1.00 Record going into contest reported as 17.
1986 Mark Heller 15½ 1.55 Despite Don Wolfman being listed falsely as the winner in various accounts, the New York Post of July 5, 1986, and The New York Times of July 7, 1986, confirms Heller the winner of the ten-minute contest. According to a Nathan's spokesman, the 70-year record going into the 1986 contest was seventeen by Walter Paul in 1978. 10
1985 Oscar Rodriguez 11¾ 0.98
1984 Birgit Felden 9½ 0.81 First female champion and first champion representing a country besides the U.S. (West Germany). 10
1983 Emil Gomez 10½ 1.05 Although a Luis Llamas of Mexico is sometimes listed as having eaten a then-record 19.5 hot dogs for the 1983 event, this is unconfirmed; a 1987 New York Times article states that the record going into the 1987 contest was 17. The real winner in 1983 was likely a 25 year old, 210-pound accountant from the Bronx named Emil Gomez, as he was cited as having won in an AP article on the front page of the July 5, 1983 Lewiston (Maine) Daily Sun. 10
1982 Steven Abrams 11+ 0.95 Independence Day was on a Sunday, and therefore held July 5; Winner ate one bite of a twelfth hot dog. Record going into contest reported as 14(Jim Mattner)
1981 Thomas DeBerry 11 2.20 Winner stopped eating after five minutes to attend a family barbecue.
1980 Paul Siederman
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Joe Baldini		 9+ 0.90 Siederman and Baldini both ate nine hot dogs plus part of a tenth in ten minutes. Both ate 3½ hot dogs in an eat-off, and were declared co-winners. An article on p. 5A of the July 5, 1980 Miami News lists this as the 64th annual contest. 10
1979 Thomas Stash 19 Stash won by downing 19 wieners in a matter of 12 minutes. Impressive by the standards of the day. 12
1978 Walter Paul 17 Event, U.S. and world records set. A Memorial Day contest, also held at Nathan's, is mentioned on p. A-9 of the May 30, 1978 Pittsburgh Press. This event does not appear to have been a qualifier round for the Independence Day contest. In it, an 180-pound 18 year old named Manel Hollenback and a 75-pound 10 year old named Kevin Sinclair tied for first after devouring 10 hot dogs and buns in 6½ minutes against 26 other opponents. The article described the Memorial Day competition as an "annual" event.
1974 Roberto Muriel 10 The 3 ½ minute contest was won by a twenty-two-year-old Brooklyn resident 3.5
1972 Jason Schechter 14 The contest lasted for 3 ½ minutes and was won by a Brooklyn collegiate student. The prize was a certificate for forty more hot dogs. 3.5
1916 James Mullen 13 Inaugural contest. Traditionally, Mullen is said to have defeated three other immigrants in a challenge to prove their patriotism. However, according to an AP article on the front page of the July 4, 1980 Rock Hill (South Carolina) Herald, Jimmy Durante, a native of the U.S., competed in the contest, which was judged by Eddie Cantor and Sophie Tucker. No winner, including Mullen, is specifically mentioned in the article. 12

^ a: Won a five-dog eat off.

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