NOME, AK (AP)-- Former NMU student Dallas Seavey has won his third straight Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
It’s the fourth win in the last five years for the 29-year-old, who arrived in Nome, Alaska at 2:20 Tuesday morning. He set a record with his finish in 8 days, 11 hours, 20 minutes, 16 seconds. On a side note, the previous record time was also set by Dallas Seavey in 2014.
The only person to beat Dallas in the past five years was his father, Mitch, in 2013. Mitch Seavey came in second this year.
The nearly 1,000-mile Iditarod started March 6 in Willow, Alaska, and took mushers across two mountain ranges, down the mighty Yukon River and along the Bering Sea coast.
Seavey was involved in Greco-Roman wrestling at Northern Michigan University in 2005 before he went into sled dog racing full time.
