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Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest (bar chart, fun topic)
The bar chart shows the number of hot dogs and buns eaten in 15 minutes by the
winners of ‘Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest’
in Brooklyn, USA between 1980 and 2010.
It is noticeable that the number of hot dogs and buns eaten by winners of the contest
increased dramatically over the period shown. The majority of winners
were American
or Japanese, and only one woman had ever won the contest.
Americans dominated the contest from 1980 to 1996, and the winning number of hot
dogs and buns consumed rose from only 8 to around 21 during that time. 1983 and
1984 were notable exceptions to the trend for American winners. In 1983 a
Mexican
won the contest after eating 19.5 hot dogs, almost double the amount that any previous
winner had eaten, and 1984 saw
the only female winner, Birgit Felden from Germany.
A Japanese contestant, Takeru Kobayashi, reigned as hot dog eating championfor six
years from 2001 to 2006. Kobayashi’s winning totals of around 50 hot dogs were
roughly double the amount that any previous winner had managed. However, the
current
champion, American Joey Chestnut, took hot dog eating to new heights in 2009
when he consumed an incredible 68 hot dogs and buns in the allotted 15 minutes.
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