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On March 20, 1985, Riddles won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, becoming the first woman to do so. She wrote three books about her adventures [2] [3] [4] and also became a professional speaker. [5] In 2007, her Iditarod Trail Race victory was inducted as a "Hall of Fame Moment" into the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame. [6]
The race's namesake is the Iditarod Trail, which was designated as one of the first four US National Historic Trails in 1978. [5] The trail, in turn, is named for the town of Iditarod, which was an Athabaskan village before becoming the center of the Inland Empire's [a] Iditarod Mining District in 1910, and then becoming a ghost town at the end of the local gold rush.
Rick Swenson, sometimes known as the "King of the Iditarod", (born 1950 in Willmar, Minnesota), is an American dog musher who was first to win the 1,049-mile (1688.2 km) Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across the U.S. state of Alaska five times, a record he held for 30 years, until Dallas Seavey matched it by winning the 2021 Iditarod.
Swenson, a 71-year-old known as the King of the Iditarod, won his titles between 1977-1991 and last ran the world's most famous sled dog race in 2012, the year Seavey won his first. Alaska musher ...
Rick met his future wife, Patti, at a 1973 community gathering to prepare Dick Mackey to run in the first Iditarod. Their love and the start of what is now the world’s most famous sled dog race ...
[1] [2] [3] It took Shields 29 days to finish the race. [2] She placed 23rd in the race. [7] Ever since Shields competed, more and more women became inspired to take on this exhausting race. She wanted to prove that gender didn't matter. [1] [2] [3] Shields was often present at the start of the Iditarod races and gave speeches about her journey.
Seavey, 37, finished the 51st Iditarod in 9 days, 2 hours, 16 minutes and 8 seconds and won just over $55,000 for first place. Seavey now has the most Iditarod wins, but Alaska's historic race is ...
Dick Wilmarth (c.1942 – March 21, 2018) [1] was a miner and trapper from Red Devil, Alaska, who won the inaugural Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1973 with lead dog Hotfoot.. In a 2001 interview with the Anchorage Daily News, Wilmarth said he saw the 1973 Iditarod as not really a sled dog race but more of a time to enjoy the Alaska wilderness with friends.