Dallas Seavey (born March 4, 1987 Deseret News
Dallas Seavey is youngest musher to win Iditarod
March 14, 2012. URL last accessed 2012-10-29.) is an American

dog musher Mushing is a sport or transport method powered by dogs. It includes carting, pulka, dog scootering, sled dog racing, skijoring, freighting, and weight pulling. More specifically, it implies the use of one or more dogs to pull a sled, most commo ...

, one of only two mushers to win the

Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, more commonly known as The Iditarod, is an annual long-distance sled dog race run in early March. It travels from Anchorage to Nome, entirely within the US state of Alaska. Mushers and a team of between 12 a ...

across the

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Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S. ...

five times: in 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2021. In 2011, Seavey competed in and won the

Yukon Quest The Yukon Quest, formally the Yukon Quest 1,000-mile International Sled Dog Race is a sled dog race scheduled every February since 1984 between Fairbanks, Alaska, and Whitehorse, Yukon. Because of the harsh winter conditions, difficult trail, and ...

sled dog race. In 2018 and 2019, Seavey also competed in Europe's longest sled dog race, Norway's Finnmarkslopet. Seavey's grandfather, Dan Seavey, competed in the first two Iditarod sled dog races in 1973 and 1974, as well as the 1997 and 2012 races. His father,

Mitch Seavey Mitch Seavey (born 1959)Jodie Tweed, Brainerd Dispatch: Winner has Crosby ties'', March 17, 2004. URL last accessed 2012-10-29. is an American dog musher, who won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across the U.S. state of Alaska in 2004, 2013 and 20 ...

, has also competed in multiple Iditarods, winning in 2004, 2013 and 2017.

Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

Dallas Seavey is the youngest musher to compete in the Iditarod, beginning his first race on March 5, 2005, the day after turning 18. At the time, he ran his father's "puppy" team, a team of less-experienced dogs. He swiftly moved into the top ten by the 2009 Iditarod, and in 2012 became the youngest musher to win the Iditarod at age 25, with a finishing time of 9 days, 4 hours, 29 minutes, 26 seconds. In 2014, Dallas Seavey won his second Iditarod, completing the race less than two minutes ahead of second-place finisher Aliy Zirkle, with a record finish time of 8 days, 13 hours, 4 minutes, 19 seconds. Seavey's 2014 finish time broke the previous record of 2011 winner John Baker by more than five hours. In 2015, Seavey won the Iditarod for a third time, in a race held from Fairbanks to Nome, with the official start moved due to a lack of snow in

Southcentral Alaska Southcentral Alaska (russian: Юго-Центральная Аляска) is the portion of the U.S. state of Alaska consisting of the shorelines and uplands of the central Gulf of Alaska. Most of the population of the state lives in this reg ...

. In 2016, Dallas Seavey won the Iditarod for a fourth time, this time breaking his own record time. His time was 8 days, 11 hours, 20 minutes, and 16 seconds. In 2017, Dallas's record time was broken by his father, Mitch Seavey. Mitch Seavey's time was 8 days, 3 hours, 40 minutes, 13 seconds. Dallas came in second place. After the 2017 race, four of Seavey's dogs tested positive for a banned substance. Seavey denied any knowledge or involvement, speculating a rival had attempted to get him disqualified, and was ultimately cleared by the Iditarod Trail Committee. As a result, Seavey took a three-year break from the Iditarod. In 2018, the race also implemented more stringent measures to prevent tampering with dogs' food by sealing food drop bags with tamper-proof zipties and adding 24/7 surveillance to the Nome dog lot and three other checkpoints along the route. In 2021, Seavey returned to the Iditarod, racing with a combined team of his father's dogs and his own, after Mitch Seavey announced he would sit out the race. Seavey won the slightly shortened 2021 Iditarod in 7 days, 14 hours, 8 minutes, and 57 seconds, capturing his fifth championship and matching

Rick Swenson 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 ...

for most Iditarod wins.

Yukon Quest

Dallas Seavey placed first in the 1,000 mile race between White Horse, Yukon and Fairbanks, Alaska in 2011. He finished with a time of 10 days, 11 hours, 53 minutes.

Finnmarksløpet

Dallas Seavey placed third in the 1,200-km Finnmarksløpet in Norway in 2018, his first time competing in that event. He scratched in 2019, citing his dogs' health. He was registered to race in the 2020 Finnmarksløpet, but the race was cancelled due to COVID-19.

References

External links

Dallas Seavey's Official Website

Dallas Seavey on National Geographic Ultimate Survivor Alaska

Dallas Seavey's Autobiography
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