Legendary Joey Chestnut wins 18th Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest by downing 66 wieners and buns

The fable of Joey Chestnut continues.

Chestnut is present an 18-time Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champion aft blowing retired the contention erstwhile again, this clip by downing 66 blistery dogs and buns successful Coney Island.

It was the 10th consecutive clip Chestnut has won the yearly Fourth of July competition; helium was barred from the 2024 lawsuit owed to sponsorship issues.

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Joey Chestnut, left, consumes blistery dogs during the 2026 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest astatine Coney Island successful Brooklyn, N.Y., Saturday. (AP Photo/Anna Connors)

Chestnut did not tally distant with it aboriginal connected and was cervix and cervix with 2024 champ Patrick Bertoletti and James Webb done the archetypal 90 seconds.

But erstwhile that clip passed, Chestnut began to tally distant from the competition. Through 3 minutes, Chestnut was astatine 28, portion Webb was astatine 22 and Bertoletti astatine 21. But astatine the halfway mark, Chestnut had eaten 42 blistery dogs and had a 10-wiener lead.

Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudo, winners of the 2026 Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest, clasp their rubric belts astatine Coney Island successful Brooklyn, N.Y., Saturday. (AP Photo/Anna Connors)

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Chestnut remained astatine a grounds gait (76) with 4 minutes to go, but similar each eating contests, fatigue and afloat stomachs acceptable successful to spell on with near-triple-digit heat. Chestnut deed the 60 people with 60 seconds to go, and officials counted his 66 afterward.

He admitted helium knew helium would not get the grounds aboriginal connected but stayed calm to instrumentality location the victory.

Chestnut competed successful the lawsuit portion serving a 180-day probation condemnation aft pleading blameworthy to a misdemeanor artillery complaint stemming from drunkenly slapping a antheral successful an Indiana barroom earlier this year. He was granted support to question to New York for the event.

Joey Chestnut wins the men's contention astatine Nathan's Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest successful New York City. (Adam Gray/Getty Images, File)

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Miki Sudo won the women's lawsuit earlier successful the time with 39 dogs and buns. She has won each of the 12 contests she has competed in, including her archetypal successful 2014.

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