Joey Chestnut Breaks His Hot Dog Eating Record

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- The annual hot dog eating championship at Nathan's in Coney Island is coming up and if Saturday's qualifying event in Washington is any indication, a familiar name could take the title once again.

Famed competitive eater Joey "Jaws" Chestnut demolished his own record by eating 73 and a half hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes. His previous record was 69.

We still can't believe it! A record-setting day for @joeyjaws in Washington DC as he destroyed 73.5 hot dogs & buns! pic.twitter.com/O9NDPwCvVy
— Nathan's Famous (@originalnathans) June 26, 2016

Great day in DC, I set a new hot dog record of 73.5 in 10min, breaking the my record of 69 @originalnathans... I have room for more ;)
— Joey Chestnut (@joeyjaws) June 25, 2016

Matt Stonie won last year's July 4 contest, eating 62 hot dogs and buns to Chestnut's 60.