Leah Shutkever spent 30.75 seconds eating a burrito on Aug. 4 at Guinness World Records' London headquarters — and by the time officials finished tallying, she had reclaimed one title and set two more in the same sitting, Guinness World Records announced this month.
The British competitive eater, a former architect, first set the fastest-burrito record in 2019 and tightened it to 32.35 seconds in 2022, only for American speed-eater Miki Sudo to take the title back later that year with a time of 31.47 seconds. Shutkever's new mark, set on a 1.35-pound burrito, beats Sudo's by more than half a second — a modest-sounding margin that, in a sport measured in fractions, counts as a rout.
She did not stop there. In the same session, Shutkever ate eight churros in one minute and put away 613 grams — about 1.35 pounds — of strawberries in another 60-second sitting, both certified on the spot by an official adjudicator as new world records, according to IBTimes UK.
Breaking records is one of the proudest experiences of my entire life and that is including having a degree in architecture.
Leah Shutkever
The triple haul brought Shutkever's career total to 42 Guinness World Records titles, a tally built since her competitive-eating career grew out of YouTube food challenges and an early record for fastest time to eat a chocolate orange, as Dexerto noted. She has said fitness, not simply appetite, underpins how she trains for events that last under a minute but demand fast, controlled swallowing.
It is a discipline that has now outlasted three separate holders of the same burrito title in under a decade — with Shutkever, for the moment, back on top of all three records she walked into Guinness headquarters intending to break, and out again less than three minutes later.
