Jeff King has won the 2006 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The 50-year-old Denali man is the oldest musher to win the race. He pulled into Nome early at 1:11 a.m. Wednesday, under a full moon.
Second-place musher Doug Swingley of Lincoln, Mont., arrived about three hours behind King. Paul Gebhardt pulled in about an hour behind Swingley.
King -- competing in his 17th Iditarod -- says he won with the best sled dog team he's ever had. He will receive $69,000 and a new pickup truck. King previously won the race in 1993, 1996 and 1998.
King joins Swingley, Martin Buser and Susan Butcher as four-time winners. Rick Swenson is the race's only five-time winner of the world's longest sled dog race.
Well good, at least his dogs all survived the ordeal.
Oooh he gets a new pick-em-up trick! (The previous is an homage to my Dad.)
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