The win at the annual Corvette Championship on Coney Island in New York was his fifteenth. There were 63 sausages with bread in ten minutes.
Miki Sudo, also a former champion, won the ladies’ competition with 40 sausages.
Chestnut was temporarily suspended from eating when a spectator dressed as Star Wars villain Darth Vader stormed the stage. The sausage master grabbed the neck of the person who was then escorted away by the organizers.
The 38-year-old competed with an injured leg.
– It hurts, but I was in the zone. I ignored it, says Chestnut, who broke a personal record last year with 76 sausages.
Sausages are served to Joey Chestnut during the annual Corvette Championships on Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York.