'Black Widow' Webs Wing Win

POSTED: 10:36 am EDT September 4, 2007

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Sonya Thomas is a champ when it comes to eating.

She loves to do it and she is very good at it.

Thomas proved it again Saturday, winning the wing-eating championship at the National Buffalo Wing Festival in, where else, Buffalo.

The competitive eater wolfed down 173 wings in 12 minutes. That's a new record for the holiday gathering. Thomas also holds the old one.

And unlike most of her rivals, she's no beefy chowhound. The 40-year-old Virginian weighs just 105 pounds. But she's known in competition as "The Black Widow."

Among her other eating achievements: 250 tater tots in five minutes, 37 hot dogs in 12 minutes, 11 pounds of cheesecake in nine minutes, and she once scarfed down 44 lobsters in 12 minutes.