Sonya Thomas

Sonya Thomas (. Born Lee Sun - kyung, kor 이선경; born July 26, 1967 in Gunsan, South Korea) is an American Wettesserin. The Korean-born Sonya Thomas, who weighs less than fifty kilograms ( The Black Widow ) is particularly in the United States by the nickname The Black Widow known because they regularly men fails on Esswettbewerben that two to three times their body weight bring on the scale.

Success in Esswettbewerben

Sonya Thomas is a member of the International Federation of Competitive Eating, an organization that organizes world -eating contest and allowed their members only attending events of this organization since 2003. Sonya Thomas is one of the best known members of this organization.

His most famous victories of eating 37 hot dogs in 12 minutes part in the International Hot Dog Eating Contest, which is held annually in New York for Independence Day. You could further increase this value in subsequent years and found it several times the world record for women. At present ( 2013) is her record at 45 Hots dogs in ten minutes.

Sonya Thomas won the 2003 also the Wing Bowl, an eating competition, which will be held in Philadelphia on the eve of the Super Bowl and appear to around 20,000 spectators. The journalist Jason Fagone described in his critical book on commercial Esswettbewerbe in the United States, as Sonya Thomas in 2004 for their last year's victory over Lokalmatadore the target of racist attacks was. In fall 2011, she could break her own record and won the Wing Bowl with 183 chicken wings tangled in twelve minutes.