Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve has crowned 32 Chunk the winner of its Fat Bear Week. Photo: AP PHOTO

Chunk, a towering brown bear with a broken jaw, has swept the competition in the popular Fat Bear Week contest in the United States, his first win after narrowly finishing in second place three previous years.

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The annual online competition allows viewers to follow 12 bears in Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve on live webcams and cast ballots in a bracket-style, single-elimination tournament that lasts one week.

Chunk - known officially as Bear 32 - beat out Bear

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