# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sonya-thomas
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:50:35.466Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sonya-thomas"
name: "Sonya Thomas"
slug: "sonya-thomas"
description: "Sonya Thomas , also known by her nickname The Black Widow, and \"The Leader of the Four Horsemen of the Esophagus\", is a South Korean-born American competitive eater from Alexandria, Virginia. Thomas joined the International Federation of Competitive Eating in 2003 and quickly rose to the top of the ranks, beating competitive eaters such as Eric Booker."
tagline: "American competitive eater"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sonya_Thomas.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1967-07-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.75
  momentum:             18.05184393372528
  historical:           7.287912
  currentAttention:     5.44
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%8F"
    title: "Томас, Соня"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "سونيا توماس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya_Thomas"
    title: "Sonya Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya_Thomas"
    title: "Sonya Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya_Thomas"
    title: "Sonya Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya_Thomas"
    title: "Sonya Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EC%84%A0%EA%B2%BD_(1967%EB%85%84)"
    title: "이선경 (1967년)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonya_Thomas"
    title: "Sonya Thomas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465225"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump