Miki Sudo

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| name = Miki Sudo

| image = Miki_Sudo_Pumpkin_Festival_Competitive_Eating_2015.jpg

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| caption = Miki Sudo at the 2015 Pumpkin Festival Competitive Eating contest

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1985|7|23}}

| birth_place = New York, New York, U.S.{{cite web |last1=Prengel |first1=Kate |title=Miki Sudo: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know |url=https://heavy.com/entertainment/2018/07/miki-sudo/ |website=heavy.com |date=4 July 2018 |publisher=Heavy, Inc. |access-date=26 November 2023}}

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| occupation = Competitive eater

| spouse = Nick Wehry

| children = 1 (Max)

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Miki Victoria Sudo (born July 23, 1985{{cite web |title=Miki Sudo defends her hot dog-eating title; stormy weather delays men's contest |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/07/04/1185950320/miki-sudo-nathans-hot-dog-eating-contest |website=npr.org |publisher=National Public Radio (NPR) |access-date=22 October 2023}}{{cite web |title=Miki Sudo (@OMGitsMIKI) |url=https://twitter.com/omgitsmiki?lang=en |website=twitter.com |publisher=X (formerly Twitter) |access-date=22 October 2023}}) is an American competitive eater. She has been undefeated in the women's competition at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, with a ten-year winning streak since 2014, unseating Sonya Thomas, who had won the women's competition since its inception in 2011 (the streak excludes 2021, which she did not compete because of her pregnancy). She captured a record tenth title in 2024.{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2024/07/04/nathans-hot-dog-eating-contest-2024-results/74279491007/|title=Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest live updates: Miki Sudo shatters women's record|first=Joe Rivera and Josh|last=Peter|website=USA TODAY}} She has the current women's record for the contest, with 51 hot dogs eaten in it, which she did in 2024.

Early life

Sudo was born to a European American mother and Japanese father.{{cite magazine | last = Beejoli | first = Shah | title=Competitive Eating's Fastest Rising Star Has Nowhere to Go But Down|url=http://www.maxim.com/entertainment/sports/article/competitive-eating-miki-sudo-2015-9| magazine = Maxim|date=2015-09-15}}{{citation |title=Defending champion Sudo wins women's hot dog eating competition in New York | newspaper=The Japan Times |date=July 5, 2015 |url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/05/world/offbeat-world/defending-champion-sudo-wins-womens-hot-dog-eating-competition-new-york/#.VixQdmslmDM}} At the age of five, she moved to Japan with her family and lived there for seven years before returning to the United States.

Competitive eating career

Sudo entered the competitive eating circuit in 2013, winning a pho eating contest.{{cite web |last1=Shaer |first1=Matthew |title=Miko Sudo on How to Dominate at Competitive Eating |url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/57612/miki-sudo-how-dominate-competitive-eating |website=mentalfloss.com |date=4 July 2014 |publisher=Minute Media |access-date=7 August 2022}} In 2014 she became Major League Eating's top ranked female competitive eater, and in 2015 reached the top three overall. She is ranked 3rd in the world with Major League Eating as of 2022, and holds 4 world records in Kimchi, Hotdish, ice cream, and the women's record for hot dogs.

=Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest results=

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| style="text-align:left;"| 2024 Contest

| style="text-align:center;"| 51

| style="text-align:left;"| 1st place and World Record

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| style="text-align:left;"| 2023 Contest

| style="text-align:center;"| 39.5