Exclusive | New Yorkers land spots in 2025 Guinness World Records book for hot dog eating, lunges and more

The Big Apple is home to an eye-popping 436 Guinness World Record holders, nearly 8% of all the risk-takers in the country and second only to California’s 615, according to the 70th edition of the “Guinness World Records.”

Here are four of the New Yorkers whose grit and determination helped them reach immortality.

Miki Sudo – Most wins of the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest (female), (10); Most hot dogs eaten at the contest (female), (51); Most hot dogs eaten in one minute, (6); Fastest time to eat a burrito, (31.47) seconds; Most jello eaten with a fork in 30 seconds, (1.30 kilograms)

The Upper East Side native entered her first Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest in 2014 and has taken home first place every year since — excluding the one summer she took off while she was pregnant.

In July, she set the world records for most hot dogs eaten at a Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest by a female at 51 and a half, and most wins of the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest by a female, 10.

For her gut-busting feat, Sudo, 39, received a certificate from Guinness, and bragging rights.

“Honestly, the most fun after Nathan’s is just watching the footage back,” she told The Post. “Because it’s hard to live that in the moment when you’re up there.”

She is ranked as the No. 1 female competitive eater with Major League Eating, with feats like devouring 16.5 pints of ice cream in six minutes, 170 wings in 12 minutes, and 96 tacos in 10 minutes.

Sudo, who grew up in Tokyo, “fell into” competitive eating in 2011 as a college student, when she downed a 12-pound bowl of pho — full of a gallon of broth, two pounds of noodles and two pounds of meat — at a Las Vegas restaurant’s contest.

She is studying to become a dental hygienist. She is married to Nick Wehry, the No. 6 male competitive eater with Major League Eating.

Inga Simning- Most knuckle pushups in one minute (female), (76); most number of pull-ups completed in one minute (female), (39); most pull-ups with a 20-pound pack (female), (21)

The first record the mom of two from Pittsford, NY set, for most pull-ups in a minute, came about through social media.

“I just saw it pop up on my Facebook feed, the prior record. I think she had done 36 pull ups and at the time, I could do 22,” said Simning, 38.

The speech pathologist, who grew up in Omaha, NE, was determined to break it.

“I said, ‘It’s a minute record, so I’m going to do a minute a day and see where it gets me.’ Within a couple of months I was doing 30.”

After she completed the pull-up world record, in June 2022, she came across the knuckle pushup world record, which was 70 in a minute.

“I never actually did pushups before, but to see where I was at, I tried and I was at 60.”

Simning is already gearing up to set her next record — for fastest marathon in a four person costume.

“It’s probably going to be a caterpillar. That is what people have done in the past because it gives you a little bit more flexibility.”

Austin Head – Most lunges in one hour (male), (2,825); farthest distance traveled by lunge in one hour (2.14 miles)

The Brooklyn fitness trainer who works for Life Time health clubs, said the idea to set that particular record was a no-brainer.

“I was teaching over 30 classes a week, and I do so many lunges teaching,” said Head, 31, a native of Kilgore, TX.

While he was researching lunging world records, he found a record category on Guinness’ website that no one had ever broken — farthest distance traveled by lunge in one hour, which the record book set at a minimum of 1.99 miles.

“Out of both of my world records, that, by far, was the hardest. My first training session was horrible. I could barely do a mile of lunging in an hour.”

In March, while he was training for that record, he managed to break another record — for most lunges in one hour.

“My final tally was almost 500 over the current world record,” he said.

Twelve days later, he set out to break the record he originally had in mind, for farthest distance traveled by lunge in one hour.

About 70 people, including his mom and grandmother, came out to witness the feat, which he started at Jane’s Carousel in Dumbo, where he lives.

Eric Jones – Heaviest jack-o’-lantern, (2,749 pounds); and largest circumference, (21’1”)

The West Clarksville, NY sculptor’s path to his two world records came about last year, after he reached out to Travis Gienger, the Minnesota man who grew the world’s largest pumpkin.

“I asked him if I could carve that and raise some money for a charity for veterans with PTSD. I carved about 180 degrees around it and I did three service members, a female, male and disabled veteran and a bald eagle,” said Jones, 49, who studied art and design at Alfred University.

“A 200-pound piece fell off the back side of it during transport and I used that to sculpt the service dog, and I set it on top of the pumpkin.”

Jones always had a passion for pumpkin carving, but it really took off after he gifted one of his creations to Al Roker on the “Today” show in 2017, which led to his appearance on the Food Network series “Halloween Wars.”

When pumpkin season ends, Jones takes up snow sculpting, and in summer, sand sculpting. His commissioned pieces start at $1,500 and his star-studded clientele includes pro athletes like Jay Cutler and Charles Barkley.

The 9-foot tall snow sculpture he did of Josh Allen and Stefon Diggs got the most attention.

“It was them doing their famous back slap handshake and that got around 3 million shares on Facebook.”

Although he is proud of his world records, Jones has even more pride for the nonprofit he created, Sculpting for Smiles, where he makes free sculptures for children who are ill or disabled.

“There’s a young lady in a hospital in Buffalo who was struck by a car. She was paralyzed and had gone a couple of weeks without smiling. She had just gotten this German Shepherd puppy and she couldn’t enjoy it because she was in the hospital,” he said.

“So I sculpted a nine-foot tall German shepherd out of snow in the parking lot of a hospital. They pushed her over to the window and showed her and it got a big smile on her face.”