 Gal Sone

In TV Tokyo's "Gluttonous King" contest held in the fall of 2005, open to both men and women, Sone qualified for the finals and beat out Miyuki Iwata, then considered the leading Japanese female competitive eater after the legendary (and currently inactive) Takako Akasaka, for sixth place by just 6 grams of bread.TV Tokyo followed up its mixed gender contest with a women's only contest in the spring of 2006 in Okinawa.