Winner of pancake eating contest dies on stage when receiving his prize

Loyal DChino readers know that we love Pancakes, unfortunately this is a horror story about one of our beloved foods.

The pancake eating contest, which took place over the weekend in the town of Chernyakhovsk, the Kaliningrad enclave, ended with a tragedy. The winner of the contest died when he went up to the stage to pick up his prize, The Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper said.

Boris Isayev, 48, was the most active participant of the contest. He ate all of the pancakes that were offered to the contestants. The man collapsed when he was walking up the stairs of the stage. He fell down on his knees suffocating with foam on his mouth, eyewitnesses said.

People took life-saving efforts – artificial respiration and cardiac massage – but the man did not come to his senses. Paramedics continued reanimating the man, although to no avail. They could only say that the cause of the man’s death would be determined as a result of the post mortem examination.