Carmen Cincotti

Carmen Cincotti (born July 4, 1993)

Early life and education Raised in the Mays Landing section of Hamilton Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey, the Cincotti graduated in 2011 from Oakcrest High School, where he played on the school's soccer team; four years later, he earned a degree in biomechanical engineering at The College of New Jersey where he became a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. He is a resident of Newark, New Jersey.

Career Cincotti developed an interest in competitive eating as a child, but he was unsuccessful in his first effort to make it past a qualifier for the annual Fourth of July Nathan's competition, describing that he "was only able to eat 13 hot dogs", which forced him to come to the realization that he "had to work at this if I was going to get to the top level." Efforts to expand his eating abilities included eating a sugar cookie weighing and three loaves of French toast. At the 2017 Nathan's competition, Cincotti came in second with 60 hot dogs completed, as Chestnut won his tenth title with a count of 72. In July 2018, Cincotti finished second in the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest to Joey Chestnut, eating 64 HDB in ten minutes to Chestnut's 74. In August 2018, Carmen Cincotti retired from competitive eating.

Eating records Cincotti has set several Major League Eating records, including consuming 101 bratwursts in 10 minutes in 2016, as well as 158 croquetas in 8 minutes (since broken) and 61.75 ears of corn in 12 minutes at two events in 2017.