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Sonya Thomas

First Lady of Competitive Eating

From Buck Wolf, About.com

Eleven pounds of cheesecake in nine minutes. That's a mouthful, but just one of Sonya Thomas' records. Here she is at the 2006 mince pie competition.
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Sonya Thomas on Nov. 26, 2006, at the Mince Pie Eating Contest in Wookey Hole, near Wells, England.
The South Korean-born eater tips the scales at just over 100 lbs., and took the eating world by storm in 2003, beating large eaters like Ed "Cookie" Jarvis and Eric "Badlands" Booker, men who easily weigh three-to-four times more than her.
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