Who is Miki Sudo? Everything you need to know about the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest participant

Miki Sudo is the reigning champion of the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in the women’s division. Sudo is one of the best competitive eaters in the world and will put her mustard yellow belt on the line on July 4th as she attempts to win her 10th title and break her own world record.

The 38-year-old has won nine of the last ten women’s competitions at the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest and has never lost. Sudo has been taking part in competitive eating since 2013 and has been at the top of the sport ever since.

A lot. Sudo ate a record-breaking 48.5 hot dogs in the 2020 competition. Her lowest winnings were 31 hot dogs in 2019.

Sudo has been unbeatable since her victory over Sonya Thomas in 2014, with the exception of the 2021 competition, which she missed due to her pregnancy. In addition to holding the world record for the most hot dogs eaten in the women’s competition, she also holds records for consumption of ice cream, kimchi, wild rice casserole, corn on the cob, steamed fish balls, cheese slices, steamed pork buns, and glazed doughnuts.

Sudo is married to fellow competitive eater Nick Wehry. The two met at the gym on the morning of the 2018 hot dog eating contest. They started dating a year later. In 2021, Wehry, a former bodybuilder, set a world record by eating 50 hard-boiled eggs in three minutes and four seconds. When he finished, he got down on one knee and proposed to Sudo.

Later that year, Sudo missed the Nathan’s competition because she was pregnant with her son, Max. Wehry also has two children from a previous relationship.

Ahead of the 2024 competition, Sudo and Wehry rank third and fourth in the official Major League Eating rankings.

With Joey Chestnut not competing this year, there’s a real chance that both the husband and wife team will win their respective competitions. Sudo is the clear favorite in the women’s competition, while Wehry finished just four dogs behind second-place finisher Geoffrey Esper in 2023.