For the third year in a row, Dallas Seavey is the first musher to reach Nome, Alaska, winning his fourth Iditarod championship overall. Seavey had been the first to reach the race’s final checkpoints, ahead of his father, Mitch – another previous champion.
Seavey’s team of seven dogs averaged nearly 9.5 miles an hour on the 1,000-mile journey, according to the Iditarod competition tracking website.
With four Iditarod championships, Seavey trails Rick Swenson for the most titles all-time (Swenson won five between 1977 and 1991). In 2012, Seavey became the youngest Iditarod winner on record, at age 25.