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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 won ...
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Rick Swenson is a legendary musher who won five Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race titles and competed in 24 races. He is known for his courage, sportsmanship and outspokenness in the world's most famous long-distance mushing event.
Mar 1, 2019 · After Andy's death, just a few days short of his 20th birthday, Swenson had Andy mounted, and this legendary lead dog is on display at the Iditarod Museum in Wasilla. Another lasting tribute to the bond between musher and lead dog is a children's book about Granite, Susan Butcher's lead dog.
Rick Swenson, sometimes known as the "King of the Iditarod",, is an American dog musher who was first to win the 1,049-mile 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.
Sep 30, 2016 · At the end of the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1978, Dick Mackey edged defending champion Rick Swenson by a single second. Judges ruled Mackey the winner because his dogs crossed...
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Mar 4, 2022 · The defending champion who turned 35 Friday is tied with Rick Swenson for the most Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race victories, with five. 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.