donut killer comp

DENVER — A man trying to eat a half-pound glazed doughnut in 80 seconds as part of a Denver doughnut shop's eating challenge choked to death, one of two people who died in such contests this past weekend.

Travis Malouff, 42, died early Sunday of asphyxia due to obstruction of the airway, a coroner said.

He had been participating in a contest to eat a doughnut the "size of a small cake," witness Julia Edelstein said Tuesday.
 
Winners get the doughnut for free and a button saying they won the challenge