Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest - Recent Contest Results

Recent Contest Results

2012 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest Top 3 finishers (10 minutes)
Wednesday July 4, 2012
No. Name Hot Dogs
1 Joey "Jaws" Chestnut 68
2 Tim “Eater X” Janus 52.25
3 Patrick "Deep Dish" Bertoletti 51
2011 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest (10 minutes)
Monday July 4, 2011
No. Name Hot Dogs
1 Joey "Jaws" Chestnut 62
2 Patrick "Deep Dish" Bertoletti 53
3 Tim “Eater X” Janus 45
4 Bob "Notorious B.O.B." Shoudt 39
t5 Matt "Megatoad" Stonie 34
t5 Sean "Flash" Gordon 34
7 Erik "The Red" Denmark 33.5
8 Adrian Morgan 31
9 Aaron "A-Train" Osthoff 27
10 Pete "Pretty Boy" Davekos 25.5
11 Pat "From Moonachie" Philbin 25
t12 "Big" Brian Subich 23
t12 Damon Wells 23
14 Lu Mung Kui 21
15 Lam Yat Ming 14
16 Mak Tai Loi 11
* Tim "Gravy" Brown DNF (reversal)
2010 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest Top 3 finishers (10 minutes)
Sunday July 4, 2010
No. Name Hot Dogs
1 Joey "Jaws" Chestnut 54
2 Tim “Eater X” Janus 45
3 Patrick "Deep Dish" Bertoletti 37
2009 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest Top 3 finishers (10 minutes)
Friday July 4, 2009
No. Name Hot Dogs
1 Joey "Jaws" Chestnut (U.S. Record, World Record)
 68
2 Takeru Kobayashi 64.5
3 Patrick "Deep Dish" Bertoletti 55
2008 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest (10 minutes)
Friday July 4, 2008
No. Name Hot Dogs
1 Joey "Jaws" Chestnut (U.S. Record, World Record tie) 59*
2 Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi (World Record tie) 59
3 Tim “Eater X” Janus 42
4 Patrick "Deep Dish" Bertoletti 41
5 Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas 33
6 (tie) Hall "Hoover" Hunt
"Humble" Bob Shoudt		 30
8 Juliet Lee 29
9 (tie) Erik "The Red" Denmark
Juris Shibayama		 28
11 Tim Brown 27
12 Eric "Badlands" Booker 25.5
13 (tie) Patrick Vandam
Rich "The Locust" LeFevre		 25
15 Crazy Legs Conti 24
16 Allan Goldstein 21
17 Pat Philbin 20
18 Nathan Biller 18.5
19 Pete Davekos 18
20 Arturo Rios 16
21 Kevin Ross 14

* - Chesnut won a five-dog eat-off in 50 seconds, seven seconds ahead of Kobayashi. The new record is based on the net hot dogs per minute with the new 10-minute format. Both Chestnut and Kobayashi held the official record jointly until it was surpassed the following year.

2007 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest (12 minutes)
Wednesday July 4, 2007
No. Name Hot Dogs
1 Joey "Jaws" Chestnut (U.S. Record, World Record) 66
2 Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi (Japanese Record) 63
3 Patrick "Deep Dish" Bertoletti 49
4 Tim “Eater X” Janus 43.5
5 Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas (Women's Record) 39
6 "Humble" Bob Shoudt 35
7 Chip Simpson 35
8 Rich LeFevre 31
9 Hall "The Hoover" Hunt 29
10 Juliet Lee 26
11 Dale Boone 25
12 Pat "from Moonachie" Philbin 24
13 Crazy Legs Conti 23.5
14 Erik "The Red" Denmark 23
15 Tim Brown 22.5
16 Arturo Rios, Jr. 21
17 Allen Goldstein 21
2006 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest
Tuesday July 4, 2006
No. Name Hot Dogs
1 Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi (World Record, Japanese Record) 54
2 Joey "Jaws" Chestnut (U.S. Record) 52
3 Sonya "Black Widow" Thomas (Women's Record) 37
4 Patrick Bertoletti 34¼
5 Tim "Eater X" Janus 34
6 Chip "The Phenom" Simpson 33
7 "Humble" Bob Shoudt 30
8 Rich "The Locust" LeFevre 28
9 Eric "Badlands" Booker 24
10 Patrick "from Moonachie" Philbin 23
11 Erik "The Red" Denmark 22
12 Seaver Miller 22
13 Brian Subich 22
14 Crazy Legs Conti 21⅓
15 Allen Davis 20½
16 Robert Andersson 20
17 Hall "The Hoover" Hunt 19
18 Kamil "The Camel" Hamersky 18
19 Kenji Oguni 16
20 Jed Donahue 1
2005 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest
Monday July 4, 2005
Preview
No. Name Hot Dogs
1 Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi 49
2 Sonya "Black Widow" Thomas (U.S. Record, Women's Record) 37
3 Joey "Jaws" Chestnut 32
4 Ed "Cookie" Jarvis 29
(tie) Keiji Oguni 29
6 Rich LeFevre 25½
7 Carlene LeFevre 25
8 Ron Koch 23
9 Tim Janus 22½
10 Eric Booker 22
(tie) Charles Hardy 22
12 Patrick "Pat From Moonachie" Philbin 20
13 Crazy Legs Conti 19
14 Joe LaRue 18
15 Don Lerman 15
16 Rob Burns 10
2004 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest
Sunday July 4, 2004
Report
No. Name Hot Dogs
1 Takeru Kobayashi (World Record, Japanese Record) 53.5
2 Nobuyuki Shirota 38
3 Sonya Thomas (U.S. Record, Women's Record) 32
4 Rich LeFevre 27.76
5 (tie) Ed Jarvis/Eric Booker 27
7 (tie) Ron Koch/Carlene LeFevre 22
9 (tie) Oleg Zhornitskiy / Jim Reeves 21
11 Joe LaRue 20
12 Allen Goldstein 19
13 (tie) Charles Hardy/Don Lerman/Dale Boone 18

July 4, 2003

  • 1st - Takeru Kobayashi (44½)
  • 2nd - Ed "Cookie" Jarvis (30½, American record)
  • 3rd - Eric "Badlands" Booker (29)
  • 4th - Sonya Thomas (25, women's world record)
  • 20 competitors total. Included William "The Refrigerator" Perry (4 hot dogs)
  • 3,000 spectators in attendance
  • Report

July 4, 2001

  • 1st - Takeru Kobayashi (50, world record)
  • 2nd - Eric "Badlands" Booker (26)
  • 3rd - Oleg Zhornitskiy (25)
  • 20 competitors total

July 4, 2000

  • 1st - Kazutoyo "The Rabbit" Arai 新井和響 (25⅛, world record)
  • 2nd - Misao "Beast" Fujita, 藤田操 (24)
  • 3rd - Takako Akasaka 赤阪尊子 (22¼, women's world record)
  • 4th - Steve Addicks (21)
  • 5th - Charles "Hungry" Hardy (19)
  • Also competed- Steve "The Terminator" Keiner, Ed "The Maspeth Monster" Krachie, Dominic "Hot Dog" Vaccaro.

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