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42-Year-Old Mom Wins Hot Dog Eating Contest

POSTED: 7:56 pm EDT May 24, 2008
UPDATED: 9:25 pm EDT May 24, 2008

Some of the region's best competitive eaters gathered in Greensburg, Westmoreland County Saturday to determine the Iron City hot dog eating champion.

They came with nicknames like Steak-bellie and Wing Kong.

But the winner of todays munch was Juliet Lee, 42, a mother of two from Maryland.

She is also ranked as the 10th best competitive eater in the world.

The one-hundred-five pound woman downed 29 dogs in ten minutes.

Lee not only wins the Iron City title, she will now go to Coney Island to compete in the famous Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest on the 4th of July.

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