Watch Every Winner.
The iconic Nathan's contest finishes, on YouTube. Embeds for the marquee moments, search links for everything else.
The contest is ten minutes long. The clips that survive on YouTube are often shorter — final-minute sprints, victory-belt moments, the slow-motion shots of the last half-dog going down. These are the videos worth saving. Where ESPN has a verified upload, we embed it. Where they don't, the table at the bottom links to a YouTube search that surfaces the best fan compilations.
★ Featured Finishes
★ Year-by-Year Archive
Each "watch" link opens a YouTube search query for that year's contest. The best uploads tend to be from ESPN, Major League Eating's official channel, or top-tier fan compilations like Brian Subich's annual recaps.
| Year | Men's Winner | HDB | Women's Winner | HDB | Watch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Joey Chestnut | 70.5 | Miki Sudo | 33 | Watch |
| 2024 | Patrick Bertoletti | 58 | Miki Sudo | 51 | Watch |
| 2023 | Joey Chestnut | 62 | Miki Sudo | 39.5 | Watch |
| 2022 | Joey Chestnut | 63 | Miki Sudo | 40 | Watch |
| 2021 | Joey Chestnut | 76 | Michelle Lesco | 30.75 | Watch |
| 2020 | Joey Chestnut | 75 | Miki Sudo | 48.5 | Watch |
| 2019 | Joey Chestnut | 71 | Miki Sudo | 31 | Watch |
| 2018 | Joey Chestnut | 74 | Miki Sudo | 37 | Watch |
| 2017 | Joey Chestnut | 72 | Miki Sudo | 41 | Watch |
| 2016 | Joey Chestnut | 70 | Miki Sudo | 38.5 | Watch |
| 2015 | Matt Stonie | 62 | Miki Sudo | 38 | Watch |
| 2014 | Joey Chestnut | 61 | Miki Sudo | 34 | Watch |
| 2013 | Joey Chestnut | 69 | Sonya Thomas | 36.75 | Watch |
| 2012 | Joey Chestnut | 68 | Sonya Thomas | 45 | Watch |
| 2011 | Joey Chestnut | 62 | Sonya Thomas | 40 | Watch |
| 2010 | Joey Chestnut | 54 | — | — | Watch |
| 2009 | Joey Chestnut | 68 | — | — | Watch |
| 2008 | Joey Chestnut | 59 | — | — | Watch |
| 2007 | Joey Chestnut | 66 | — | — | Watch |
| 2006 | Takeru Kobayashi | 53.75 | — | — | Watch |
| 2005 | Takeru Kobayashi | 49 | — | — | Watch |
| 2004 | Takeru Kobayashi | 53.5 | — | — | Watch |
| 2003 | Takeru Kobayashi | 44.5 | — | — | Watch |
| 2002 | Takeru Kobayashi | 50.5 | — | — | Watch |
| 2001 | Takeru Kobayashi | 50 | — | — | Watch |
★ About these videos: Embeds use YouTube's privacy-enhanced no-cookie mode (youtube-nocookie.com), which only loads tracking cookies if you interact with the player. The featured uploads are from ESPN's official archive, Major League Eating's channel, and well-known fan compilation creators. We are not affiliated with any of these channels — they are linked for editorial documentation of the historical record. Year-by-year "Watch" links open YouTube search queries (no tracking until you click through).
About the YouTube video record
ESPN holds the live broadcast rights to the Nathan's contest each year, and most contest finishes survive on YouTube through three channels: ESPN's official archive, which posts highlight reels in the days after each contest; Major League Eating's own channel, which posts cleaner finish clips and post-contest interviews; and fan compilation channels — Brian Subich and a few others have been re-uploading clean copies of full contests for years.
The single most-watched moment in YouTube hot dog eating history is, by most counts, the final stretch of Chestnut's 76-dog 2021 contest — which was famously cut off mid-broadcast on the live ESPN feed (the technical glitch that briefly let TMZ scoop the world record). The fan-uploaded versions that include those final dogs are scattered across YouTube; the search link above for 2021 surfaces the cleanest cuts.