Alaska: World’s largest sled dog race started

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Alaska
Largest sled dog race in the world started

Musher and his dog sled team drive at the Rainy Pass Checkpoint, during the Iditarod race. photo

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As far as from Hamburg to Rome: Almost 40 participants take part in a race lasting several days in the ice-cold US state of Alasaka. Former winners are also trying to be the fastest again.

In the icy Alaska, more than 30 women and men took part in the 52nd Iditarod dog sled race. There are around ten days and 1,600 kilometers ahead of the competitors in the largest and toughest dog sled race in the world. This year there are 38 teams – led by eleven women and 27 men – who are starting the first official stage, as the Anchorage Daily News reports.

The day before, the sleighs had set off from Anchorage, the capital of the US state, for the ceremonial start. The destination is the town of Nome on the Behring Sea. Three previous winners are trying to be the fastest again this year. Pete Kaiser, who won in 2019, record five-time winner Dallas Seavey and defending champion Ryan Redington – all three are from Alaska.

The Iditarod leads through the Alaskan wilderness – often in snowstorms and extremely sub-zero temperatures. The competition was founded in 1973 and takes its name from a river and now-abandoned town in western Alaska. The race commemorates a dog sled expedition in 1925 to bring vaccine to Nome to combat a diphtheria outbreak. The Iditarod Trail also transported goods and mail in the 20th century.

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