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Top competitors

Joey Chestnut, 25, of San Jose, Calif.

Takeru Kobayashi, 31, of Nagano, Japan

The rivalry

Chestnut has won the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest the past two years. Before that, Kobayashi won six titles in a row. Last year, Chestnut and Kobayashi were tied at 59 dogs after 10 minutes and went head-to-head in a five-dog eat-off.

The 2009 results

68 Chestnut’s world-record-breaking number of hot dogs eaten in 10 minutes

64 Kobayashi’s second-place performance

55 Third-place finisher Patrick Bertoletti

19 Total number of contestants

13 Hot dogs eaten to win the first contest in 1916

And now, a Diet Coke

20,189.2 Number of calories Chestnut consumed by eating 68 Nathan’s Famous Beef Hot Dogs and rolls

What’s for dinner?

Cobb salad How the champion said he planned to celebrate his victory Saturday night

Chestnut, belly in the zone

“This is great. After the second minute, I knew that my body was cooperating and it was going to be hard to beat me.”