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NOME (AP) -- Eight mushers were in Nome Thursday night, including 1976 Iditarod champion Jerry Riley crossed the finish line at 5:43 p.m. to finish eighth in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Riley was greeted by 1978 Iditarod...
...Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. He became the first Alaska Native musher to win the world's longest sled dog race since Jerry Riley did it in 1976. - Arne Fuglvog, the former fisheries aide to U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, will be sentenced...
...The Kotzebue resident is the first Inupiat Eskimo Iditarod champion and the first Native Alaskan to win the race since Jerry Riley in 1976. Baker's time of eight days, 18 hours and 46 minutes was three hours faster than Martin Buser's 1982 race...
...shape," he said. Baker was the first Inupiat Eskimo to win the Iditarod and the first Alaska Native to win it since Jerry Riley did in 1976. For this year's race, Baker's 16-dog team will include 11 dogs from his winning run. For his part...
NOME (AP) -- Eight mushers were in Nome Thursday night, including 1976 Iditarod champion Jerry Riley crossed the finish line at 5:43 p.m. to finish eighth in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Riley was greeted by 1978 Iditarod...
...pulled in to rest their teams. Three other mushers -- Jerry Riley of Nenana, John Baker of Kotzebue and Tim Osmar of Clam...m. 9. Ramy Brooks Nikolai 14 2:42 p.m. 10. Jerry Riley Nikolai 15 4:24 p.m. 11. John Baker Nikolai 13...
...other front-runners stacked up Sunday evening: Early leader Linwood Fiedler left Kaltag at 12:31 p.m. Sunday. Jerry Riley left that checkpoint at 4:28 p.m. After Riley came Rick Swenson, John Baker, Gebhardt, Sonny King and Dee Dee...
...of Two Rivers and Ramy Brooks of Healy. Rick Mackey of Nenana, the 1983 Iditarod winner, arrived at 3:24 p.m. Jerry Riley of Nenana, who won the 1976 race, and Zach Steer of Anchorage both reached Rainy Pass before 5 p.m. Another 15...
...would be on our schedule,'' Fiedler said. Three-time champion Martin Buser of Big Lake was running third, while Jerry Riley of Nenana, was holding down the fifth-place spot. Rick Swenson, from Two Rivers, and the Iditorod's only five-time...
...m. Ramy Brooks followed Boulding onto the trail, arriving at Ophir at 8:45 a.m. and leaving at 8:58 a.m. Jerry Riley and Bill Cotter left at 11 a.m. after resting for just a few minutes each. DeeDee Jonrowe arrived at 11:35 a...