Furious Pete

Peter Czerwinski was born November 30, 1985, in Toronto.{{cite news|newspaper=The Star |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/07/09/furious_pete_from_anorexic_to_worldclass_competitive_eater.html |title=Furious Pete: From anorexic to world-class competitive eater |date=July 9, 2012 |access-date=March 16, 2013 |first=Laura |last=Kane }} Both his parents had health issues. As a teenager, he battled against anorexia nervosa, and was hospitalized because of it at Toronto's The Hospital for Sick Children. Bodybuilding was a major factor in his recovery.

Czerwinski has a slower digestion rate than the average person's. His daily diet comprises nine balanced meals and he exercises daily. Czerwinski became aware of his talent in eating after managing to beat an eating record. Thereafter, he decided to take on more eating-related challenges and post them on YouTube. Having participated in more than 90 eating competitions, Czerwinski holds fourteen Guinness World Records in competitive eating, including that for eating a whole raw onion in 43.53 seconds,{{cite web |url=http://challengers.guinnessworldrecords.com/users/8189-peterczerwinski |title=PETERCZERWINSKI: World Record Certificates |access-date=March 17, 2013 |publisher=Guinness World Records |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130316110943/http://challengers.guinnessworldrecords.com/users/8189-peterczerwinski |archive-date=March 16, 2013 }} seventeen bananas in 2 minutes, fifteen hamburgers in 10 minutes, 750 millilitres of olive oil in 60 seconds, and 17 Jaffa Cakes in sixty seconds.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/#/watch?v=ur3Nmz_C4rA&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dur3Nmz_C4rA |author=Guinness World Records |publisher=YouTube |title=Furious Pete Sets New Jaffa Cake Eating Record -- Guinness World Records |access-date=March 17, 2013 }} He also participated in season one of Canada's Got Talent. For his performance, he ate 5 hard boiled eggs, 3 pieces of Canadian bacon, 2 bananas, and a bag of milk in 51 seconds.{{cite news|newspaper=The Star |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2012/03/19/canadas_got_talent_recap_toronto_halifax_and_vancouver_auditions.html |title=Canada's Got Talent recap: Toronto, Halifax and Vancouver auditions |date=March 19, 2012 |access-date=March 16, 2013 |first=Debra |last=Yeo }} However, he did not make it past the Toronto Auditions.

A direct-to-DVD documentary film, The Story of Furious Pete, chronicling Czerwinski's life, screened at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.{{cite news|url=http://www.ctvnews.ca/furious-pete-profiles-canadian-anorexic-turned-competitive-eater-1.508604 |last=Ahearn |first=Victoria |newspaper=CTV News |title='Furious Pete' profiles Canadian anorexic-turned-competitive eater |date=May 3, 2010 }}

The Furious "Pete"{{cite web|url=http://eaglesdeli.com/menu-burgers.html|title=Menu (Burgers and Hot Dogs)|website=eaglesdeli.com|publisher=Eagles Deli and Restaurant|access-date=September 29, 2014|archive-date=September 20, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140920222231/http://eaglesdeli.com/menu-burgers.html|url-status=dead}} – which consists of 20 pieces of bacon and 20 pieces of cheese, alongside a five-pound platter of fries – is named after him, after Czerwinski became the first person in 1,500 attempts to finish it.{{cite news |url=http://www.canadianbusiness.com/lifestyle/the-performer-furious-pete-czerwinski-competitive-eater/ |first=Jordan |last=Tim |date=September 8, 2011 |newspaper=Canadian Business |title=The Performer: Furious Pete Czerwinski, competitive eater |access-date=March 17, 2013 |archive-date=September 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918214803/http://www.canadianbusiness.com/lifestyle/the-performer-furious-pete-czerwinski-competitive-eater/ |url-status=dead }}

Czerwinski has successfully battled testicular cancer twice in the past, both times going into remission. On February 16 in 2017, he uploaded a video onto YouTube where he stated he was yet again battling cancer and it was testicular cancer, making this his third time fighting.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d37JP1vZk8|title=My Final Battle|first=Peter|last=Czerwinski|publisher=via YouTube|date=February 16, 2017|access-date=June 16, 2019}} In January 2019, Czerwinski stated that the testicular cancer returned and had his second testicle surgically removed, requiring him to undergo testosterone replacement therapy for the rest of his life.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyDO5-02LKQ|title=I have no more balls...what's next?|first=Peter|last=Czerwinski|publisher=via YouTube|date=January 25, 2019|access-date=June 16, 2019}}

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