Iditarod Musher Profile

Sam Deltour, 24, was born in Belgium. He received his bachelor’s degree in Medicine and is now in his fifth year of medical studies. He saw a documentary about the Iditarod on the National Geographic Channel when he was 12 and became interested in mushing. So he began mushing in 2006 and came to Alaska and trained at the Seavey Kennels to run the 2008 Iditarod. “I finished with my sixteen athletes in harness fulfilling a childhood dream.” He says that last winter he was back in medical school and “the musher inside of me was getting pretty bored. I wanted to learn more, experience more, at the same time, I wanted to give more to the dogs. Don’t ask me why I felt like keeping on freezing off brain cells and putting my toes on the line…… Thanks to an athletes status I can run some races during the winter and study over the summer.” Same enjoys kite surfing, playing the guitar and reading.