Thank you for your interest in covering the 53rd Running of The Last Great Race on Earth®.
Media applications for the 2025 Race have now closed. 2026 Iditarod applications will be open in December 2025.
2026 Race Statements & Press Releases
2025 Race Statements & Press Releases
- Iditarod 53 – Special Award Recipients & Prize Purse Payouts – March 18, 2025
- Rookie Ebbe Pedersen receives the Lynden Red Lantern Award – March 17, 2025
- Rookie Musher Jenny Roddewig scratches at the White Mountain checkpoint – March 17, 2025
- Samantha LaLonde wins 2025 Rookie of the Year – March 16, 2025
- Jessie Holmes wins the 53rd Running of The Last Great Race on Earth® – March 14, 2025
- Jessie Holmes, first to White Mountain, wins Northrim Bank Achieve More Award – March 13, 2025
- Rookie Justin Olnes scratches at the Eagle Island checkpoint – March 12, 2025
- Rookie Quince Mountain withdrawn at the Grayling checkpoint – March 12, 2025
- Rookie Sydnie Bahl withdrawn at the Grayling checkpoint – March 12, 2025
- Jessie Homes wins the Ryan Air Gold Coast Award – March 11, 2025
- Rookie Iditarod musher Bryce Mumford scratches at the Grayling 1 checkpoint – March 11, 2025
- Jessie Holmes receives the Bristol Bay Native Corporation Fish First Award – March 10, 2025
- Jessie Holmes wins Alaska Air Transit Spirit of Iditarod Award – March 9, 2025
- Veteran Iditarod musher Gabe Dunham scratches at the Eagle Island checkpoint – March 9, 2025
- Jessie Holmes wins GCI Dorothy G. Page Halfway Award – March 8, 2025
- Gross necropsy completed on Daniel Klein’s dog, Ventana – March 8, 2025
- Veteran Musher Jeff Deeter and Rookie Musher Mike Parker Scratch from Iditarod 53 – March 7, 2025
- Rookie Iditarod musher, Daneil Klein scratches at the Galena checkpoint – March 7, 2025
- Dog dies unexpectedly outside of Galena checkpoint – March 7, 2025
- ITC releases statement regarding the team of Iditarod Rookie, Brenda Mackey – March 7, 2025
- Rookie Iditarod musher, Charmayne Morrison scratches at the Tanana checkpoint – March 6, 2025
- Veteran Iditarod Musher, Paige Drobny, wins Feast on the Yukon – March 6, 2025
- Rookie Iditarod Musher, Brenda Mackey, scratches at Tanana checkpoint – March 5, 2025
- Musher start order set for the 53rd running of The Last Great Race® – February 27, 2025
- Iditarod Ceremonial Start route shortened due to lack of snow – February 25, 2025
- 2025 Iditarod Restart to take place in Fairbanks, Alaska – February 17, 2025
- Dr. Stu Nelson Named as the Iditarod Honorary Musher for the 2025 Race – February 4, 2025
- Iditarod to run the Southern Route for 2025 – January 31, 2025
- The ITC Mourns the Loss of Head Veterinarian, Dr. Stu Nelson – September 26, 2024
- The Iditarod & Alaska SPCA Announce Partnership – September 19, 2024
- 24 Mushers enter the running for the 2025 Iditarod on opening day – June 29, 2024
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2024 Champion Summary
Veteran musher Dallas Seavey of Talkeetna, Alaska, crossed the finish line of the 52nd running of the Iditarod in Nome at 5:16 p.m. on March 12, 2024, claiming his sixth Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race® championship. With this win, Seavey has now become the most celebrated musher in the 52 years of the race.Seavey had 10 dogs in harness when he triumphantly crossed the finish line to win the Iditarod 2024 title in 9 days, 2 hours, 16 minutes and 8 seconds. Of course, Seavey could not have made it the approximately 975 miles from Anchorage to Nome without his team of incredible dogs.
As the winner of Iditarod 2024, Seavey adds more mushing accolades to his career. Seavey has run and completed The Iditarod 13 times, has finished in the Top Ten 11 times. In 2012, Dallas became the youngest musher to win the Iditarod at age 25, and now, 12 years later at the age of 37 is the winningest musher to compete in the race, securing his sixth win.
Read the full press release HERE
