今年的“感恩节吃火鸡邀请赛”中，在国际竞吃界有着“黑寡妇”之称的美籍韩裔女子桑娅·托马斯以12分钟吃下一整只大火鸡的成绩一举夺魁。

    据路透社11月24日报道，日前，今年的感恩节吃火鸡邀请赛在美国纽约的一家熟食店举行。参赛者将比赛谁在最短的时间里吃掉一只9斤重的大火鸡。现年37岁的桑娅·托马斯体重仅为47.5公斤。

    作为本次比赛体重最轻的选手却击败其他7名男性参赛者夺得冠军。托马斯将自己的胜利归功于“吞咽速度快”。本次比赛，获胜的托马斯的奖品为2500美元和一口烤肉锅。

    赛后，托马斯表示：“火鸡非常干，它的皮也很干。我尽可能快地将它吃掉。”不过托马斯也承认，她曾不断的嚼口香糖使下颌保持最佳状态。 托马斯还说，感恩节那天她还要吃火鸡，但是她会慢慢地品尝。

    其实，托马斯的获胜并非出人意外。本次活动的主办方——国际食赛基金会表示，国际大胃王竞赛联盟的排行榜上，托马斯排名第2，仅次于日本“大胃王”小林尊。托马斯是大胃王比赛的常客，她曾在12分钟内创下吃掉32根热狗的记录，也曾在吃鸡蛋、蛋糕、青豆、蟹肉蛋糕、肉丸子和水果蛋糕的比赛中打败其他对手。

    A day before millions of Americans sit down to eat traditional Thanksgiving dinners, a Virginia woman grabbed the world turkey-eating title on Wednesday by gobbling down a whole roast bird in 12 minutes.

    Sonya Thomas, 37, who weighs just 105 pounds (47.5 kg), beat seven men in the annual Thanksgiving Invitational: a race to eat a 10-pound (4.5-kg) turkey.

    The smallest in the field, Thomas put her victory down to "swallowing fast."

    "It was very dry and the skin was very dry," said Thomas, holding her trophy, a roasting pan, over her head. "I just tried to eat fast."

    Venerated in competitive eating circles as "The Black Widow", the Alexandria, Virginia woman said she trained for the event, held at a delicatessen in New York, by chewing gum to get her jaw in top form.

    She said she plans to eat turkey again on Thursday, but much more slowly so that she can taste every bite.

    Her victory was no surprise. She is ranked as the No. 2 competitive eater in the world, behind Japan's Takeru Kobayashi, according to the International Federation of Competitive Eating, which sponsored the turkey-eating event.

    Thomas, who collected $2,500 (1,450 pounds) in prize money, has also dominated her opponents in egg, cheesecake, baked bean, crab-cake, meatball, and fruit-cake eating contests.