Rick Swenson
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Rick Swenson
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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. Swenson won in 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, and 1991, and is the only person to win in three separate decades. He won his first Iditarod race at the age of 27. Swenson competed in the Iditarod for the first time in 1
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American dog musher
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2024-03-16T21:03:53Z
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