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	Sonya Thomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas was born in Kunsan, South Korea to parents of modest means who had difficulty keeping up with their ravenous daughter's grocery bills.
		Thomas lost to Eric "Badlands" Booker in a chicken wing contest and then lost a waffle eating contest in Atlanta the next day to the fast-rising rookie Joey Chestnut, giving her a two event losing streak to replace her winning streak.
		Thomas' waffle defeat was avenged on Labor Day, however, when she out-ate Chestnut in the Chattanooga, TN Krystal Square Off qualifier.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sonya_Thomas (1663 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		When you first see Sonya Thomas you wonder whether she might be blown away by the breeze that is bouncing off Baltimore's inner harbour this bright and sunny morning.
		Sonya tells me that sometimes the contests leave her spending a lot of time in the lavatory for a couple of days afterwards but she says - and this is something about which you may wish to draw your own conclusions - that she does not make herself sick after eating.
		Sonya makes a last-minute dash to the loo as the sound system is turned up and two fabulously over-the-top Masters of Ceremonies take to the stage, announcing each of the 12 "gurgitators".
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /food_and_drink/features/article853527.ece (1736 words)

	At 100 pounds, chewing her way to stardom - The Washington Times: Metropolitan - July 03, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sonya Thomas, 36, of Alexandria, Va. describes eating, competing and the discipline that comes with eating anything from hotdogs to oysters in 12 minutes or under.
		Miss Thomas, a wisp of a woman who weighs anywhere from 100 to 110 pounds depending on the contents of her stomach, is a rock star in the world of competitive eating.
		The records Miss Thomas holds are astounding: 11 pounds of cheesecake in nine minutes, 9 pounds of crawfish jambalaya in 10 minutes, 8 pounds of turducken (chicken stuffed in a duck stuffed in a turkey) in 12 minutes, 43 soft tacos in 11 minutes, 167 chicken wings in 32 minutes.
	www.washtimes.com /metro/20040702-102423-2836r.htm (780 words)

	Making Room for Whatever Is on the Table
		Thomas, who is known as the "fl widow" (because, she says, she likes to "kill the men"), is increasingly dominating a fast-growing competitive eating circuit that is part sport, part entertainment and a lot of spectacle and hype.
		Thomas insists that she keeps all of her food down and that she developed her stomach's seemingly limitless capacity primarily by drinking three 42-ounce Diet Cokes every day during her shift as manager at the Burger King at Andrews Air Force Base.
		If Thomas was pacing herself in the wing-eating contest, it was not evident to a reporter (who felt a bit ill watching her).
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/16/AR2005111600095_pf.html (1311 words)

	Woman eats 26 grilled cheese sandwiches - Boston.com
		Thomas, who is known as the "Black Widow" on the competitive circuit, ate 26 grilled cheese sandwiches in 10 minutes.
		Sonya Thomas won $8,000 for the contest at the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Times Square but said she was disappointed in her performance.
		Thomas, of Alexandria, Va., said she had to catch a train shortly after the contest to make her shift at a Burger King on Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, where she is a manager.
	www.boston.com /news/odd/articles/2006/02/02/woman_eats_26_grilled_cheese_sandwiches/?p1=MEWell_Pos1 (348 words)

	Digest: Sonya Thomas in Jane Magazine
		Sonya wanted to break the world record of 38 eggs in eight minutes and prove that she was a real contender in the competitive eating circuit, despite the fact that she was one of the few females in the sport.
		When Sonya shows up, she seems to be over the wing contest humiliation, telling me, "Tiger Woods loses, too." She says her goal for tomorrow is 69 burgers-the number Kobayashi beat her 46 with last year.
		Sonya really has to win today, because rumors are circulating that Jaws might bump Sonya to second in the nation if he beats her again.
	www.urbanhonking.com /digest/archives/2006/04/sonya_thomas_in.html (3185 words)

	Roadfood.com Forums - The Black Widow does it again!
		Sonya Thomas, of Alexandria, Va., won $500 and a trophy belt for her efforts, consuming 9.76 pounds of lobster meat.
		By Robert F. Bukaty, AP Sonya Thomas, of Alexandria, Va., won $500 and a trophy belt for her efforts, consuming 9.76 pounds of lobster meat.
		Thomas was coming off a baked bean victory days before in Indiana, where she consumed 8.4 pounds of beans with pork in 2 minutes and 47 seconds.
	www.roadfood.com /Forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4548 (414 words)

	EatFeats (competitive eating news and database (formerly trencherwomen)) » Sonya Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sonya ties the US record set by Joey Chestnut in last year’s finals and beats her personal (and allover qualifier) record of 57 she set last year.
		Sonya claims that her stomach capacity is now up to 18-20 pounds and that she never gets full.
		Sonya’s big Burger King meal weighs a good deal less than 22 pounds, so it would be interesting to learn what else she eats to reach that amount.
	eatfeats.com /category/women/sonya-thomas (1792 words)

	ASIAN POP: Superchomp / Korean-born Sonya Thomas is the No. 1 ranked female competitive eater in the USA.
		Thomas, South Korean born, 37 years old and single, is the No. 1 female competitive eater in the United States.
		Sonya looked like she would be more at home at a beauty pageant than at an all-you-can-eat event.
		Thomas said it was the toughest because of the quantity of food.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/05/26/eat.DTL (2550 words)

	New York Blade Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sonya’s sister had been a surrogate with an agency, and Sonya suggested that they modify a contract used by her sister in another surrogacy arrangement, Thomas said.
		That contract made clear that Sonya intended to have no maternal relationship with the child and that she would help Carlos and Thomas complete a second-parent adoption so that they would both be legal parents of the baby.
		Thomas said that Sonya told the judge she felt she should be able to get on a plane and take the baby home immediately and that the judge said that that type of drastic procedure should only be considered in the most extreme circumstances.
	www.newyorkblade.com /2005/11-25/news/national/surrogate.cfm (885 words)

	The Seattle Times: Northwest Life: Where does little Sonya put it all? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sonya Thomas, a 99-pounder, has burst upon the world of competitive eating.
		Sonya Thomas burst upon the world of competitive eating like a thunderbolt.
		Thomas is tied for second with 78 wings.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/living/2001850874_bigeater08.html (895 words)

	Girls soccer: Scholar-Athlete: Nanuet's Thomas shows her versatility (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Thomas started playing soccer as a halfback, but she has played inside midfield, outside midfield and stopper.
		Thomas is putting the finishing touches on her project about the genetics of Alzheimer's disease.
		Thomas recalled her final year of camp and the traditions that were set there.
	www.thejournalnews.com /localsports/scholar/110902/index.html (601 words)

	Slashfood
		Sonya Thomas has won another high speed eating record at her debut competition in Asia plus a cheque for HK$20,000.
		Sonya has another trick to help her get the food down, which is hopping up and down during the final moments of the competition.
		Sonya, who weighs 105 pounds, really has her technique down to a science and Chestnut, in a post match interview, describes how much concentration is needed to compete, given that your body doesn't really want to eat all that grilled cheese.
	slashfood.com /search/?q=Sonya (1893 words)

	The Rafu Shimpo - L.A. Japanese Daily News
		Thomas has lived in the United States for nearly a decade, but her appetite was well known before she had ever heard of eating contests.
		Thomas said that despite the volume she and other contestants eat, they never purposely purge their systems after a contest.
		Thomas said her “comfort food” is Korean hot pot stew and bulgogi.
	www.rafu.com /community_1_1_1.html (978 words)

	ESPN.com - Page2 - The battle of the bulge
		Sonya must be related to the hot dog champ from Coney Island.
		Sonya works the "hand speed" and strips the bones far cleaner.
		Sonya's pile lays neatly, but it doesn't look nearly as impressive as Cookie, who clearly values quantity over quality.
	espn.go.com /page2/s/shanoff/040128.html (979 words)

	Sonya Thomas \| Black Widow \| Competitive Eating \| Interview \| Hotdog Eating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sonya Thomas: Well, I've always been a very competitive person, not just at eating, but at all sports.
		Sonya Thomas: Well, the size of the person doesn't really matter in competitive eating.
		Sonya's next big event is Nathan's Famous Hotdog Eating Contest on July 4, 2004, when she'll be trying to defeat the reigning World Hotdog Eating Champion, Takeru Kobayashi.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p4447.htm (658 words)

	youthlarge's bibimbop: sorry, hot tub
		my hero, the one and only sonya thomas, failed to defend her wing bowl crown last night much to the delight of the portly sports fans who had gathered at the wachovia center to watch the annual event.
		anyone who follows competitive eating knows that sonya thomas is one of the most classy and gracious competitors around.
		thomas has not forgotten the humble beginnings from from which she has risen to become the #2 competitive eater in the world.
	www.youthlarge.com /bibimbop/2005/02/sorry-hot-tub.html (625 words)

	USATODAY.com - Woman eats 35 bratwursts in 10 minutes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — Sonya Thomas, at 99 pounds, gobbled her way to another speed-eating title over the weekend by attacking a Wisconsin staple — the bratwurst.
		Sonya Thomas of Alexandria, Va., winces as she chomps a final bratwurst at a brat-eating contest.
		Thomas, a Burger King manager from Alexandria, Va., is ranked second by the International Federation of Competitive Eating, which sanctioned Saturday's contest during Brat Days.
	www.usatoday.com /news/offbeat/2005-08-07-bratwurst-eating-contest_x.htm?csp=34 (274 words)

	International Federation of Competitive Eating - IFOCE
		This amazing eater was named IFOCE 2003 Rookie of the Year and was nearly unbeaten in competition in 2004, except for one highly controversial loss to Dale Boone in a baked bean eating contest in which the beans were said to be far too hot.
		(Boone somehow got hold of a jug of water that he used to cool his beans.) Sonya has quickly mastered the sport and the rest of the eaters appear to be watching, dumfounded, seemingly waiting for her to assume her rightful position at the top of the game.
		However, in 2005, Sonya was tested by other American eaters, most notably by Joey Chestnut, who beat her in Waffle House waffles and in Krystal hamburgers.
	www.ifoce.com /eaters.php?action=detail&sn=20 (556 words)

	wjz.com - 'Black Widow' Eats 26 Sandwiches, Returns To MD
		Sonya Thomas of Alexandria, Virginia, ate 26 grilled cheese sandwiches in ten minutes to win the World Grilled Cheese Eating Championship in New York City.
		The 100-pound Thomas is known as the "Black Widow" on the competitive eating circuit, apparently because she has defeated so many larger men.
		Thomas caught a train shortly after the contest to make her shift at a Burger King on Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
	wjz.com /seenon/local_story_033084200.html (217 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- This Black Widow has quite a big bite
		In the jaw-snapping, belly-busting, mostly male world of competitive eating, Sonya Thomas is known as The Black Widow.
		Thomas, 37, lives in Alexandria, Va., where she manages a Burger King restaurant and dreams of owning her own franchise.
		Thomas chose the nickname Black Widow because "it is my desire to eliminate the males." In the early days, she drew surprised glances when she bellied up to the eating tables with other competitors who actually have bellies.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20050801-9999-1c01grilled.html (742 words)

	chalkdust » Blog Archive » Sonya Thomas Needs a New Nickname (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		By now you already know who Sonya Thomas is — she’s that amazingly petite and slender Korean-American woman (I’m assuming the American part, actually) who finished second at this year’s Nathans Famous hot-dog eating championship at Coney Island on the fourth of July.
		Sonya’s really good at what she does, obviously, and routinely beats up on men twice or three times her size in the competitive eating arena.
		My biggest problem with Sonya Thomas taking this name for herself, though, is that the name was already in use by someone else for ten years before Sonya burst upon the scene in 2003.
	chalkdust.mitchellkdwyer.net /?p=30 (1137 words)

	cbs5.com - 100-Pound Woman Eats 60 Ham Biscuits In Contest
		Sonya Thomas, a 100-pound woman who earned her nickname by outeating many of her heavyweight male opponents on the competitive eating circuit, ate 60 ham biscuits Saturday to win an eating contest at the 16th Annual Virginia State Harley Davidson Owners Group Rally.
		With their cheeks stuffed at the five-minute mark, Booker and Thomas continued to dunk the biscuits into pitchers and cups of water to help speed up the act of swallowing.
		In the final minutes, Thomas started hopping, an action she says helps push down the food.
	cbs5.com /topstories/topstories_story_177080816.html (231 words)

	Cluckbucket: International Federation of Competitive Eating, National Buffalo Wing Eating Contest
		Congrats to Sonya Thomas (all 105 pounds of her) for demolishing the competition at this year's buffalo wing eating contest, a part of the National Buffalo Wing Festival held every Labor Day in Buffalo, NY.
		Thomas consumed 5.09 lbs of chicken wing meat, that's 161 wings, in an astonishing 12 minutes.
		An interesting aside, Sonya Thomas also was the champion at this past year's Wing Bowl, a grueling 32 minute wing eating competition in which she consumed 167 wings.
	www.cluckbucket.com /ifoce/wings.htm (188 words)

	Hot dog! Kobayashi wins 5th straight crown - - MSNBC.com
		The runner-up was Sonya Thomas of Alexandria, Va. — known as The Black Widow on the competitive-eating circuit — who set an American record by downing 37 hot dogs in the same 12 minutes.
		Thomas, who manages a Burger King restaurant, separates the hot dog from the bun and eats them separately.
		Thomas, who weighs a remarkable 105 pounds, is a rising speed-eating star.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/8464219 (455 words)

	JS Online:35 brats, ten minutes
		Finally, introduced last was Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas: 98 pounds, ranked second by the International Federation of Competitive Eating, holder of numerous eating records, including hard-boiled eggs (65 in 6 minutes 40 seconds) and chicken wings (167 in 32 minutes).
		Thomas, a Burger King manager from Alexandria, Va., found the path to celebrity at the end of a fork.
		As she signed T-shirts, Thomas explained that she works out 60 to 90 minutes a day on a treadmill to maintain her weight and prepare for contests.
	www.jsonline.com /news/state/aug05/346698.asp (1025 words)

	New York Daily News - Home - Hot dog! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For Booker and others, that means packing in up to 9 pounds of cabbage a day, or gulping down a gallon of water to increase "capacity." It also means studying your food, so you know the most efficient way to eat it.
		Thomas began competing only last year, but she already holds nearly a dozen records, including the women's hot dog title for 25 Nathan's weiners.
		Thomas' notoriety has already earned her dozens of media appearances and thousands in prize money.
	www.nydailynews.com /front/story/207836p-179217c.html (830 words)

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