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| Birth Name: | Piotr Czerwinski | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 30 November 1985[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality: | Polish Canadian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Other Names: | Furious Pete | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation: | Competitive eater Bodybuilder | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | McMaster University | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Peter Czerwinski (born Piotr Czerwinski; November 30, 1985), better known by his stage name Furious Pete, is a Canadian competitive eater and YouTuber. Czerwinski currently holds fourteen Guinness World Records in eating.
Peter Czerwinski was born November 30, 1985, in Toronto.[2] Both his parents had health issues. As a teenager, he battled against anorexia nervosa,[2] and was hospitalized because of it at Toronto's The Hospital for Sick Children. Bodybuilding was a major factor in his recovery.[2]
Czerwinski has a slower digestion rate than the average person's.[2] His daily diet comprises nine balanced meals and he exercises daily.[2] Czerwinski became aware of his talent in eating after managing to beat an eating record. Thereafter, he decided to take on more eating-related challenges and post them on YouTube. Having participated in more than 90 eating competitions,[2] Czerwinski holds fourteen Guinness World Records in competitive eating, including that for eating a whole raw onion in 43.53 seconds,[3] seventeen bananas in 2 minutes, fifteen hamburgers in 10 minutes,[2] 750 millilitres of olive oil in 60 seconds,[2] and 17 Jaffa Cakes in sixty seconds.[4] He also participated in season one of Canada's Got Talent. For his performance, he ate 5 hard boiled eggs, 3 pieces of Canadian bacon, 2 bananas, and a bag of milk in 51 seconds.[5] However, he did not make it past the Toronto Auditions.
A direct-to-DVD documentary film, The Story of Furious Pete, chronicling Czerwinski's life, screened at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.[6]
The Furious "Pete"[7] – which consists of 20 pieces of bacon and 20 pieces of cheese, alongside a five-pound platter of fries – is named after him, after Czerwinski became the first person in 1,500 attempts to finish it.[8]
Czerwinski has successfully battled testicular cancer twice in the past, both times going into remission. On February 16 in 2017, he uploaded a video onto YouTube where he stated he was yet again battling cancer and it was testicular cancer, making this his third time fighting.[9] In January 2019, Czerwinski stated that the testicular cancer returned and had his second testicle surgically removed, requiring him to undergo testosterone replacement therapy for the rest of his life.[10]