Ryan Redington is the champion of the 2023 Iditarod, a sled dog race his grandfather founded more than 50 years ago. Led by 4-year-old Sven and 6-year-old Ghost, Redington and his team of six dogs cruised down Front Street in Nome at 12:13 p.m.
Ryan Redington and his six-dog team, led by Sven and Ghost, are first into Nome on Tuesday.
“It means everything to bring that trophy home,” said Redington in the finish chute. “And, yeah, it’s been a goal of mine since a very small child, to win the Iditarod. And I can’t believe it. It finally happened. It took a lot of work, took a lot of patience and we failed quite a few times, you know, but we kept our head up high and stuck with the dream.”Redington, 40, has deep mushing roots, and his Iditarod win is the first in his family.
Redington began racing the Iditarod in 2001. He scratched from seven of his first 12 races, and then appeared to hit his stride in 2020. He placed in the top 10 that year, and then the next two years after that. Before Tuesday, his highest finish was seventh in 2021. That same year,in a competitive field and was the only musher to complete the entire course after extreme conditions forced several other contenders to call in a rescue.
In this year’s Iditarod, Redington was near the front of the pack from the beginning of the race. He was, resting through the relatively warm hours of the day, when temperatures rose above freezing. But it was only Redington who gambled on a marathon run to the Bering Sea coast. His team cruised down an 85-mile section of trail to arrive in his mom’s birthplace of Unalakleet early Sunday. He said it felt like a “childhood dream coming alive.”
Kaiser at first appeared to be clawing back time on Redington, but then he stopped in Elim for more than five hours while Redington’s team charged ahead, stopping only for a few minutes throughout a 94-mile, more than 13-hour stretch. Kaiser said he realized he couldn’t catch up to Redington, so he opted for the extended stop. He reasoned that if something unexpected happened to Redington’s team on the notoriously unpredictable coast, his team would be ready to take the lead.
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