- Takako Akasaka
Takako Akasaka (
Japan ese: 赤阪尊子 "Akasaka Takako" b. February 24, 1955) is aJapan ese competitive eater fromOsaka ,Japan . She is considered the most successful female competitive eater in Japan.Akasaka is known as an excellent long-distance eater, specializing in sweet food, which earned her the nickname "The Sweet Queen" or "The Queen" among her admirers. She started competitive eating in 1989 and became famous when she won an annual TV Champion's eating contest in 1994. She won again in 1996 by beating
Hirofumi Nakajima andKazutoyo Arai , who were both soon to beNathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champions. One of her records is eating 90ostrich eggomelette s inAustralia . Takako Akasaka is the first person, male or female, [http://www.triciavita.com/work3.htm to eat 2 #13 sandwiches] (weighing 7 pounds total) at theCarnegie Deli in New York City.In 2000, she, along with fellow Japanese eaters Arai and
Misao Fujita , entered an annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, where she become the first woman to do the "The Deuce", eating more than 20 hot dogs with buns in 12 minutes. She finished at third place by eating 22 hot dogs, while Arai won the contest at 25, breaking the previous world record, and Fujita finished second at 24.Her women's world record for hot dog eating was bested by
Sonya Thomas , a Korean-born Korean-American. Ms. Akasaka remains one of three women to have eaten more than 20 hot dogs at Nathan's (Carlene LeFevre is the other).Takako Akasaka has decreased the frequency of her contests and has worked as a commentator on Japanese competitive eating programs such as the [http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/oogui2006/ "Gluttonous Queen"] contest broadcast on TV Tokyo in the spring of 2006 on TV Tokyo.
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* [http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.citydo.com%2Fcity-web%2Foctober%2F06.html&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8 Citydo article from 2000 (translated)]
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