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Takeru Kobayashi

Nagano, Japan

Gender

Male

Birthday

1978-03-15

Popularity

0.1

Biography

Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi (小林尊, Kobayashi Takeru; born March 15, 1978) is a retired Japanese competitive eater. Described as "the godfather of competitive eating", he is a six-time Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champion and widely credited with popularizing the sport. Description above from the Wikipedia article Takeru Kobayashi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.