美選手蟬聯吃熱狗大賽冠軍 狂吞64只熱狗

US defending champion Joey Chestnut won the annual Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on Friday by downing 64 hot dogs in a competition that stretched into a first-ever overtime.

Chestnut, of San Jose, California, defeated six-time champion Takeru Kobayashi of Japan in the annual event held at New York's Coney Island beach.

The two were tied at 59 hot dogs a piece at the end of the regulation 10 minutes, forcing a sudden death overtime to determine which man could eat five more hotdogs in the shortest time.

Organizers said it was the first overtime in the contest's history.

Chestnut won the overtime, marking his second consecutive victory over Kobayashi. Kobayashi won the contest six straight times but lost the title in an upset to Chestnut last year.

Thousands of onlookers were on hand for the Fourth of July Independence Day event which Nathan's has staged since 1916.

The winner receives $10,000, a mustard yellow belt and a year's supply of hotdogs from Nathan's, which began in 1916 with a small Coney Island hot dog stand and now sells food products globally.

在上週五舉行的一年一度的“內森杯”國際吃熱狗大賽中，上屆冠軍、美國人喬伊•切斯特納特成功衛冕，吃掉64只熱狗。今年的比賽首次進入加時賽階段。

當天的比賽在紐約的科尼島海灘舉行，來自加利福尼亞州聖約斯的切斯特納特戰勝六屆冠軍得主、來自日本的小林尊，成功衛冕。

在本次比賽中，兩人在10分鐘的正式比賽時間內均吞下59個熱狗，“吃”成平手，所以雙方只能進入加時賽階段，在最短時間內吃完五個熱狗的一方將獲勝。

據主辦方介紹，這是該比賽歷史上首次用加時賽定勝負。

結果，切斯特納特在加時賽中勝出，這是他連續第二次擊敗小林尊奪得冠軍。小林尊曾連續六年蟬聯此項比賽的冠軍，但在去年的比賽中惜敗，不保冠軍頭銜。

當天的比賽吸引了數千名觀衆觀看。“內森杯”國際吃熱狗大賽始於1916年，是美國“獨立日”的慶祝活動之一。

比賽冠軍將獲得1萬美元的獎金，一根黃綬帶以及由“內森”食品公司提供的爲期一年的免費熱狗供應。起源於1916年的“內森”公司從科尼島海灘上的一個小熱狗攤起家，目前其食品業務遍及全球