Leah Shutkever has done it. The influencer/professional eater has set the world record for fastest time to eat a burrito for the third time to reclaim a title she had lost to speed eater Miki Sudo in 2022.
According to the Guinness World Records, she has 42 records to her name. Quite an accomplishment for someone who got into it by accident.
Leah Shutkever attends LIVE Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef at the Hyper X Arena at the Luxor in Las Vegas, Nev., on Sept. 2, 2024. (Getty Images for Netflix © 2024)
“My origin story of breaking Guinness World Records titles is one that I’ll never get bored of,” Shutkever told Guinness World Records.
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“I had newly started up a YouTube channel doing food challenges, and I found an official record of fastest time to eat a Chocolate Orange, and I had a go, filmed it for YouTube, posted it, and thought nothing else of it.”
She was then contacted by a TV show to make her attempt official, which she did. She’s been hooked ever since she broke that record.
Leah Shutkever attends LIVE Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef at the Hyper X Arena at the Luxor in Las Vegas, Nev., on Sept. 2, 2024. (Getty Images for Netflix © 2024)
Shutkever first set the fastest time to eat a 1.35 pound burrito in 2019. She broke her own record with a time of 32.35 seconds in 2022, months before Sudo took it down.
In August, at the Guinness World Records HQ in London, she took back her title by inhaling a burrito in 30.75 seconds. An impressive feat that easily beat Sudo’s time of 31.47.
What a performance by Shutkever. She left it all out there. Everything, but a single morsel of the burrito. That’s how you take down one of 42 world records.
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“I’ve been very fortunate in my career that many opportunities have landed on my desk, and I’ve been the right person with the right appetite to say yes to them,” she said.
“Competitiveness definitely plays into the ability to attempt and break a world record. I think personally, I am silly, bold, and brazen enough to put myself in the firing line for all sorts of things.”
Guinness Judge and Leah Shutkever attend LIVE Chestnut vs. Kobayashi: Unfinished Beef at the Hyper X Arena at the Luxor in Las Vegas, Nev., on Sept. 2, 2024. (Getty Images for Netflix © 2024)
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That’s how you humbly deliver a victory speech.
The ball is now in Miki Sudo’s court or any other speed eater who thinks they have what it takes to barely chew a burrito and put it away in less than 30.75 seconds.
